[photos] Your Monday moment of zen
Your Monday moment of zen.
Photographed at the Whatcom Creek Estuary, in Washington State, by .
© 2009. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.
Tags: Northwest, Photos, zen
Posted: 3:55 am Mon August 31 2009 | Comments(0) |
[photos] The Child takes a trip to Mount St. Helens
Today, took a trip to Mount St. Helens with her grandmother (), her cousin (the Niece) and her aunt (). Kids and grandmother took the train north, where my sister met them by car and they went up to the visitors’ center. She took the good camera, and took some photos, which I am posting a few of here, with her permission.
The Portland train station
Amtrak
The hardy adventurers, junior division
Messing about on rocks
A little friend from Nature
Oh, yeah, a volcano!
Most photos by , selected photos by M. Lake.
© 2009
This work by B. Lake and M. Lake is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
As usual, more at the Flickr set.
Tags: Child, family, Northwest, Photos, Portland, trains
Posted: 6:51 pm Sun August 30 2009 | Comments(0) |
[photos] The August babies party
The August babies party at ‘s house.
The gnome concentration camp
‘s friend I—
holding a praying mantis
recoils from having her photo taken with the flash
The fire in the pit
© 2009 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. & B. Lake
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. and B. Lake is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Child, Cool, Northwest, Photos
Posted: 9:12 pm Sat August 29 2009 | Comments(0) |
[photos] Your Thursday moment of zen
Your Thursday moment of zen.
Photo taken by me on the Long Beach Peninsula, Washington State.
Tags: Northwest, Photos, zen
Posted: 3:01 am Thu August 27 2009 | Comments(0) |
[photos] Your Friday moment of zen
Your Friday moment of zen.
Photo taken by me in the Mt. Hood National Forest. (Read the road sign.)
Tags: Northwest, Photos, zen
Posted: 3:37 am Fri August 07 2009 | Comments(0) |
[calendula] A grand weekend away
and I spent a four-day weekend at Iron Springs, at the writer’s retreat and conference there. We were among old friends and new, including , , , , , , , , Chrissy, , a cast of almost a dozen others whose LJ handles are unknown to me or have slipped my mind, and of course our host, . Iron Springs is an ageing (to the point of being nigh post-apocalyptic) resort that is completely off the grid with respect to cell phones and Internet, so it was a very focused weekend.
This is where and I first met last year, and such a long, strange year it’s been. At least two of the folks there last year tried to warn her off of me (Hah! Take that!), but everyone this year seemed quite happy that we had eventually worked things out and are quite happy our own selves. Lots of walking, lots of writing, lots of workshopping, some good conversation, a guerrilla underwear signing, and a fair amount of romance.
Came back this afternoon and put on a plane back for San Francisco. I’m exhausted, and so is she. I’ll fly down tomorrow to hit my second opinion appointment on Tuesday for the cancer stuff, then spend the rest of the week with her. So indeed a grand weekend away, with a grand week to come.
Tags: Calendula, California, Conventions, Northwest, Personal, Travel, Writing
Posted: 7:52 pm Sun June 28 2009 | Comments(0) |
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