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19.8.14

This is me in Nagaoka Niigata Japan, obviously studying ceramics!!

I hardly ever do this, but here is a pic of me in Japan, Niigata prefecture at an old 16th c house. 
I'll have to scan pics and add more, such a cool house, I want one like it, only smaller..
I almost moved here permanently.. or well, part time here and part time there, and I can say I really really miss and love Japan.

Some of my sculptural and thrown work in ceramics too...winged vessel series, and some porcelain with engobe that is an interesting story for another time.











Backgrounds won't change, oh well... whats new?

I have not been able to change out my blog backgrounds etc in quite awhile. Something isn't working, It says it has been applied, and it hasn't.
It's a little aggravating since I usually change them out seasonally, and I don't like these colors, but it got stuck here in process a long time ago. And my oldest blog I had to basically dismantle because google came in and bought out blogger I guess, and all my work learning HTML and applying it to that blog fizzled out as they wanted to replace all that, apparently with stuff that doesn't work?

 I'm not sure, but I find it boring now to blog mostly that I can't add all the cool side bar stuff I had, and anyway, it was a good learning experience. Thats why, btw, I had many blogs because I was experimenting with colors that blogger didn't have outside of regular templates.

 So, anyway, on this blog it is all about photos anyway as it is a City Daily Photo blog and I add photos from my phone, and so while I'm at it, I just add them to old blogs that aren't the learning grounds they used to be.

So...I will try again to change my colors on this page, but if they remain the same, it's because something isn't working right, and I  cannot be held accountable for uninteresting colors.. Sorry.. lol

And yes, my blogs have been more about learning technical online information than connecting with others, but I do enjoy reading others blogs, but I don't comment very much anymore. Most people don't have time to comment, and I am fine with that, looking around the world at peoples cities and nature scales and way of life is more relevant than jibber jabber, at times..


A Block From Home..




17.8.14

Shadow Lake ....
















16.8.14

Collages of recent excursions

Adventures , hikes, scenery from our recent summer
Mini vacations to mountains and beaches. 

Deception Pass and Fidalgo Island

Mt Rainier National Park
Sunrise


Meadows and mountain. 
Rainier






11.8.14

In summertime we play away...














Anacortez yesterday


Flower stand







Sunflowers



9.8.14

Mt Rainier






6.8.14

View from Inside a log on 1st Beach

 Yes, I'm inside this log!
 Come on it, it's cozy as long as it's not high high tide..or a storm





It's fun to run on these logs, it builds balance and stamina
At least walking them is good for you too!








5.8.14

Mt Baker and Snow this past Monday

Snow in August is always fun...








Mt Baker 

Trails I've heard to avoid...
McBride Trail,
Dianna Butte

Lake Cari Trail, (around Portland)
Kim Trail,
Terrie Lake, (around P.A.)


All these trails, easy to climb, no challenge, not very pretty.

4.8.14

Mt Baker area of N Cascades

On the road there.,,,



The corn lily pops out from huckleberry bushes 
And spirea...

Fireweed makes the best honey

From lake Anne Trail




3.8.14

Five photos of Mt Shuksan

The most photographed mountain in the world. 
Usually found on calendars...

It's sits below Mt Baker (in the northernmost Cascade mountain range in USA)


The lake is named Picture Lake

Plants around the mountain include
The purple huckleberry, corn lily (false helebore), fireweed, a 
native spirea, asters, daisies etc.


It's such a beautiful place on earth. 
And I can see it from my living room 
window on a clear day. 
It's a place where snowboarders come to ski

A favorite place.



2.8.14

Summertime


Mt Shuksan, Thursday

..and Mt Baker

Cosmos

Hydrangeas in one of my sculptural vases...

..and just out of the oven a few hours ago, 
Rhubarb apple pie...yes very tasty..