Happy Trails

Hello, welcome, and goodbye for now.

I'm afraid it's time to put Olympia Daily Photo into mothballs, at least for a while. I have truly enjoyed taking and selecting photos for the page, visiting everyone else's amazing and inspiring photo blogs, and receiving so many kind and interesting comments.

But.

At least for now, I don't have time to do this wonderful project justice. The administrators are right to warn about the commitment it takes. I hope to have enough time to devote to photo blogging again, maybe not so far in the future. In the meantime, my attempt to be a daily photo blogger just makes me admire everyone who contributes to Daily City Photoblog that much more.

Peace,

Zanabel

Happy faces

Tumwater Dahlia Garden

Sense of place

Columbia Rive Gorge

Tower of power

Experience Music Project, Seattle

Bells and whistles

Musician at Pike Place Market, Seattle

World class view

Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains, with a Washington State Ferry in the foreground

Taken from downtown Seattle.

The test of time

Carved grave marker, Suquamish Tribal Cemetery

Watering hole

This is the view from the new "in" place down on Budd Inlet, the Hearthfire Grill


And this is what the place itself looks like. Inside it's just one big, high-ceilinged space with a very Northwest design and floor to ceiling windows looking out on the bay. Too bad about the lousy view.

Ruling their roost

Pigeons at Westlake Mall, Seattle

Unknown

Grave markers near Chief Seattle's grave in the Suquamish Tribal Cemetary

The Sandman

The Sandman tug at Percival Landing

Labor Day Weekend brings the Wooden Boat Fair to Olympia and Percival Landing.

Out and about

Chief Seattle's Grave, Suquamish

You can get it in Poulsbo

Come into my chamber

Summer

A picture that speaks for itself.

Twin beauties

Waterlilies, Goodale Park, Columbus, Ohio

I'm cheating -- took this last week while on vacation and am posting it because I don't have very many Olympia area photos organized right now. Pretty, though, aren't they?

Back to the fair

Highlander

The "O" in . . . .

Seltzer Park, after the flood

In this case the "O" is for Ohio rather than Olympia. I've been gone about 10 days to visit relatives all around the state of Ohio. My hometown was flooded badly on Tuesday, August 21. The river that runs through town actually cut it in two and several people were evacuated by helicopter. I visited on Friday when many aspects of town life were seemingly back to normal, though some Main Street businesses had clearly been badly impacted.

As I walked through the park on Friday afternoon, the community pool was full of kids, the cicadas were singing their hearts out, and the Black Fork flowed peacefully through the hot and humid summer afternoon.

Tomorrow, I shall return to regularly scheduled, Olympia-based photoblogging!

What's going on here?

Going out of town for 10 days beginning Friday, August 17. Since I didn't make other arrangements, my notion is to post a photo each day (whether from Olympia or my contemporary surroundings) using my camera phone. Bear with me on that....

I'll be eager to catch up and comment on others' photos when I return!

Bayside