Following

I'm sure many of my photographer friends can relate to this hike. My girlfriend, Marcella, hiking... me, constantly trailing behind. Somehow I never managed to completely lose her, and even managed to catch her in the distance. Eventually I caught her when we turned around; only to lose her again on the hike back down.









BTW.. the third one is my favorite. Probably one of my favorites in a while.

Lake Washington

We made a couple stops on our Birthday tour of Lake Washington. The first was this little beach in Madison Park where we hung out for a while, doing some people watching and catching a few really painful looking belly flops from the diving board on a floating dock. Our second stop was down the road a ways, at a dock near Leschi(?). There were a surprisingly few boats at the dock for a beautiful day in July.

Newspapers

This is something we don't really "do" in Kansas City; at least not that I've found recently. We have some free periodicals in town, but they're usually in stands within restaurants or stores, rather than in cool metal newspaper boxes outside. I find these pretty good little structures to photograph. From Seattle and Oakland, respectively.

Harriet in Seattle

Last July I spent my Birthday weekend in Seattle visiting my best friend Scott. Here are a few shots from around his apartment, including his dog Harriet. I turned it into a nice long weekend trip, thanks to the 4th of July being a holiday. I'm trying to figure out where to go this year, so if you have any suggestions, let me know!

10,000 of these

One of the cooler, low key things we did in Minneapolis was a little excursion to one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. This lake (I don't know what lake it is, or where it was exactly) is just sort of in the middle of town, near businesses, offices, etc. People can just come out at lunch and take a really nice stroll around, or in the evenings people can come out for the same. They also had mini golf, and maybe some paddle boats too. Just a nice little getaway in town. Enjoy these pictures, like I enjoyed wandering around.

After the lake I'll finish up my Minneapolis trip with a couple final shots I took while we were waiting for the train to take us to the airport. I can't tell you how nice it is was be able to just take a train to the airport.

More Minneapolis

It's been a while since I've gotten around to editing and posting any photos, so we're still on a timeline way back in June of last year, and my trip to Minneapolis. There is this bar downtown, Brit's Pub and Eating Establishment, where on the roof, they have lawn bowling. One morning after a late brunch at Hell's Kitchen we dropped in to give it a try. It was early in the day, so we were able to get a 'lane' as it were, right away and get to playing pretty quickly. It was a TON of fun. Shoes off, icy cold beverage in hand, we bowled from side to side for maybe an hour. We laid down a few friendly wagers, and I ended up having to buy everyone a Lego Minifig at the Mall of America later (don't ask..).

My takeaway from this trip continues to be that Kansas City needs to learn to be more like Minneapolis.









I have another post in the chamber from Minneapolis. Just need to get another picture or two ready first, so expect it soon!

Minneapolis Bike Ride (Part 2)

After meeting the Royals manager, Sean was pretty excited, and we were both ready for a drink. We rode a little further to this really cool area with lots of patio seating areas, sort of overlooking the river. We hung out there for a while until Tyler was about done with work, and then rode towards downtown to meet him at the Guthrie Theater, where there is this really awesome observation deck. It’s called the Endless Bridge, and I’d been curious about it all morning after having seen it while riding. It was really cool and just open to the public whenever you wanted to drop in. Kansas City needs things like this.

Lunch was at some hipster-Mexican type place. It was really good too; we let Tyler do the ordering.