Olympia
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Jay took a picture of me as I headed out to my big...
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Then, Jay wandered off around Olympia. I really...
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Even though Olympia is a pretty small town (42,000...
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The main product shipped out these days are logs. PS,...
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Not long thereafter, the sun had come out strongly...
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Looking the other direction (90 degrees to the left) at...
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Another 90 degree turn and you're facing a switchback...
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Jay trekked up the hill, and Capitol Lake can be seen...
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The capitol building. The Texas Capitol is bigger.
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The foliage was beautiful around the capitol. This is...
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This big tree on the capitol grounds is supported by a...
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Catherine, hanging out in the hotel after the interview....
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Close-up. I almost look not unhealthy!
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Upon discussing what we were going to do Saturday...
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Thursday night, Jay arrived. Friday = interview, and...
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Four slices of pizza and a pint of beer for $14. Not too bad!
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The pizza was pretty delicious, too.
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Yum. Morning bun from the Bread Peddler in Olympia, WA.
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The new Olympian preparing her first meal at #204 Tabula...
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And her dinner guests, enjoying the shoes off policy and...
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View of Mt Rainier from the Alaska Air non-stop to...
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And more or less straight down on Rainier. Summer snow...
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Just the trailing south side of Rainier.
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Up here in OLY, I can't find my favorite sandwich bread...
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Not sure I'll be buying sandwich bread again any time soon!
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Another adventure in baking: pumpkin muffins!
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Oh, did I mention they had a cream-cheese filling? Yum.
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Christmas Cookies 2011! Chocolate cookies with pecans...
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Cookies in a glass container.
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Ginger cookies with lemon filling... not very prettily...
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Oatmeal chocolate bars.
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My favorite peanut butter cookies.
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Chocolate mint sandwich cookies. The cookies pictured...
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Gingerbread stars. I have given up on lots of different...
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A survey of all the cookies.
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Almond Christmas tree cookies!
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As if the day had not been incredible enough, we then...
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I pulled over in hopes of getting a good shot or two,...
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This picture does at least show the back half of the...
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A final parting shot. I should also mention that...
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Saturday night, the snow started falling in Olympia. ...
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By Wednesday, I figured they actually had something to...
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That's my foot buried in the snow. At work, I think it...
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Wednesday night, I borrowed a shovel from my coworker...
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As no one else chose to shovel out their "driveway",...
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Most people didn't even try... this was a common site for days.
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At the apartment, the snow came up to more like my...
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Li'l Blue tucked in my garage. Not coming out any time soon...
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They did snow-blow the walkways. When I asked if they...
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The main road through the complex. There are two tire...
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Thursday morning, I walked down Trosper Rd to catch the...
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Crossing I-5, the bigger problem becomes evident -- it's...
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We were at work for about an hour before this...
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Getting back to my apartment... the buses are prepared!
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After getting home to a cold, dark apartment, I left...
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This car, window open, was probably not much fun to deal...
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Like the bridge rail -- everything was coated in ice.
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Fortunately, I remembered to bring my Nubrella on my...
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More icy branches. I really love how this looks, if not...
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The trees all look so sad...
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I haven't gone to check if this one is going to make it....
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More beautiful ice.
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The complex pool and not-so-hot tub.
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I can't imagine this cactus-like plant has any business...
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More icicly tree branches and berries.
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As evening set in, I saw by the biggest window and read...
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The sky was a beautiful color that isn't really captured...
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As were these.
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Friday I finally got out and was escaping to a hotel...
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Close-up of a small tree in need of serious pruning. ...
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Jay came to visit, and we decided to take advantage of a...
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Like good hikers, I took pictures of the map in case we...
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That Patagucci twins set off!
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The trail wasn't much of a trail, and didn't seem headed...
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Blue skies appeared! How nice.
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There were a few signs along the trail, explaining that...
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The remnants of a much older tree.
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Getting back to the car after a fairly dull hike (with...
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Also, a welcoming hut and bathrooms. This was literally...
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The beaver pond. Note that while there is still blue in...
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Jay on a bridge overlooking the beaver pond. No signs...
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There were lots of ducks, though. These are all...
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Quack quack.
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Looks like a beaver has been here!
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A tree stump in the damned part of the lake. It had...
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A grove of trees by the beaver pond. In the end, we...
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A couple weeks back, Diana and I took advantage of a...
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I must like this place, there's a bridge!
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Diana on the "beach". I have trouble truly accepting...
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Lots of rocks.
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Looking east at Puget Sound.
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Now looking north / west. It was a beautiful day.
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I really like this picture... except that somehow my...
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Terrible shot, but that's actually a bald eagle, so I...
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After Tolmie, we went to the Nisqually National Wildlife...
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Another great pictogram for the books.
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Diana looks for water creatures.
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My camera really wasn't good enough to catch this well,...
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The Refuge has a really nice boardwalk that stretches...
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Pondering the yonder.
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I think I'm trying to get a picture of the Tacoma...
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While seeming like it might have been low tide, it...
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I think there's a bird in the middle there that seemed...
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Yeah, there he is.
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Shadows!
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Hey look, Dad, it's a dog! Wait, no, that's a heron.
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Who apparently did not approve of my easy access to him...
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And proceeded to stand there for a while. Nice life.
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Interesting formation in the middle there. I was...
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Looking west from the boardwalk.
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Diana enjoys the sunshine.
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There's a lot of boardwalk to go... At some point, we...
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... so we ran, instead. We look a bit pathetically...
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One last look out at the marshes and the end of the boardwalk.
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The last weekend of April, Olympia hosts an event called...
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Sylvester Park and the old Washington State Capitol...
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I honestly am not sure I knew Olympia had this many...
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Because of this, we know that cheese is good.
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One solitary artist.
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My new friends Jen and Jake.
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While in Austin, I taught Diana how to do a Hook 'Em for...
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The beginning of the parade! As far as I can tell,...
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According to their website, the Procession "is a joyous,...
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This primarily resulted in people dressing up, often in...
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Look, a dinosaur! I'd be scared, but I'm pretty sure...
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Antelopes and a lion.
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Aardvarks were very popular.
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This was a common sight - a parent carrying or holding...
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Animals and a moon.
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Unicorns, I love them, unicorns, I love them. ...
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A baboon showing off his baboon butt.
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A sock monkey! John suggested (after the fact,...
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This guy was definitely my favorite. Look how cute and...
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I don't know why this lion was so cute to me.
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I didn't even think about the appropriateness of my...
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Time to get on the crazy giraffe-slash-megabike.
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I never did understand what this lady was doing or what...
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This buffalo was very well done.
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Diana's friend Tim, as a hummingbird (he was on...
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A giant spider!
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Mother bird, and baby.
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These dandelion costumes were very well done. Look at...
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I hope the snails traded off who got to ride on the...
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Praying mantis. Apparently some of the bigger, airier...
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Centipede and the world. And a large yellow bird-thing.
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Awesome kicks on one of the centipede parts.
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I've shown a lot of the pictures of people dressed like...
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These ladies... belly-danced? in bras and crepe-paper skirts.
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Example of an adorable but unhappy child, being toted...
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A jazz band of piranhas.
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This guy was super-psyched that he got to be the one to...
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A geoduck (gooey-duck) (the mascot of the Evergreen...
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A giant microscope.
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If only I'd kept up with my fluting...
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Shamu riding up a wave. I realized too late that I...
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Awesome owl hat!
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We escaped the procession to go get some snacks at a...
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More azaleas, with really big flowers.
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I guess having something in the shot for scale would...
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Looking towards the Olympia Peninsula from Swing Bar. ...
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Jen at Swing Bar.
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Jake shows off the wine-glass holder/tree provided with...
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Catherine with her wine tasters.
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Jen, Jake, Catherine, and Diana.
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What a beautiful day to go sailing! Getting the cover...
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John demonstrating the practice course we were going to follow.
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Diana poses in the boat.
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It'd be a lot cooler if we were off the dock, but it's...
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I'm pretty sure this is what Diana saw a lot --...
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A slightly happier face. Other stars are behind us.
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Looking over the bow at our crash boat / instructor and...
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Flying the jib.
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More anxious staring at the sail...
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Diana was full of smiles, though.
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More smiles.
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Freak thunderstorm (with lightning; very uncommon here)....
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My new apartment! This picture taken from the front...
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Now looking back at the living room / front door.
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Front bedroom.
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Closet of the front bedroom, and the front door.
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From in front of the front bedroom door, looking towards...
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Looking into the back bedroom.
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And the other side of the room. This room would fit a...
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Kitchen. The owners are debating painting the red walls...
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More kitchen, with bathroom doorway visible.
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Bathroom. Kind of small, but it'll do ok.
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Gas fireplace heating unit and the two bedrooms.
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Doorway from the parking lot.
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More sailing photos! Catherine and Terri cruise during...
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Close-up!
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Headed downwind, or across the line.
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All five boats in the regatta.
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Linda and Wendy round the mark in Boat 17.
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And settle in downwind.
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Catherine and Terri near the mark.
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Harumph. I tacked late; we're high up on the mark.
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Having the main in the water is not fast.
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We made it out in front, though, phew.
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Time to settle in for downwind.
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Headed to the mark in the next race (these photos...
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Yesss, proof that we were in front around the mark --...
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But drat, I overshot the mark again.
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Less out in front this time.
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At the mark.
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Hike! I'm reassured to see that the bottom of the boat...
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Cruising again.
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Action shot of Terri. No idea what I'm looking at.
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Whatever it is sure had my attention.
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There's lots of stuff to do all at once, so this moment...
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Ah, the upwind leg that broke my heart. We were well...
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The result: 15 hits the line with us a good couple of...
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Sadly, that was the end of our night. Headed to shore.
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Possibly my favorite picture. Very full of emotion. I...
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Catherine and Terri head out from West Bay Marina to...
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One of our competitors in the background. We were just...
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I figured out eventually that on beam reaches, it was...
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The weather could not have been nicer. Sunny, warm, and...
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Heading downwind, again possibly before the races...
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On a reach.
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Headed upwind. Looks like we're racing?
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Or buzzing the committee boat, as the photographer was...
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Speeding upwind.
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Looks like we're still practicing, or cruising up and...
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Now we're racing! Look at us, all in front of the other...
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Headed past the pin towards the leeward mark.
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Uh-oh, competition.
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With two boats bearing down, I think we still came...
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One of the trickiest parts of the Star boat is managing...
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Cruising downwind "wing-on-wing", with the jib supported...
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Heading upwind while two boats near the leeward mark. I...
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Coming in to the finish.
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Ready about!
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Hard a'lee!
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Coming around...
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And out the other side...
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Two more tacks later, finishing the race. I like that...
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On the start line.
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There was enough wind for me to be working hard.
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It looks like there is about to be a giant collision,...
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Sure enough, we pull ahead.
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Downwind battle. This race turned into a bit of a mess...
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And it wasn't until I started demanding mark room that...
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I quickly ducked to their other side and ended up...
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It definitely slowed us down, but we got to the windward...
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Starting line!
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If this is a start, I'm in great shape!
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The red buoy is the pin.
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Out in front of at least one boat.
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This might be a finish. Seeing these photos, I'm pretty...
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Get out and hike!
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Some heel is fast. That much heel is not. Get the boat flat!
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Sail 844 was, for three races, our big competition (we...
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More downwind.
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This mark rounding was a little hairy. We made it okay...
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A nice shot of the committee boat and the majority of...
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Catherine and Star crew Terri after winning the 2012...
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Looking out over West Bay Marina towards the Olympics.
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A couple weeks back, as we sailed in from a night of...
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The boat is currently unloading those logs in Kure,...
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I've been helping Boat Builder Bill work on a wooden...
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He has also been working on this one, named Glisten. It...
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Fancy woodwork (done by Bill and Jim Findley) on Sparkle.
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Glisten on the left, Sparkle on the right, in Bill's workshop.
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Through some fortuitous timing and nice people, I have...
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John came to visit and on the slopes seemed like the...
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Sunday, John and I rented kayaks and headed out into...
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Catherine looks a little wary, too.
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John out in the kind-of open water.
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I never did manage to get lined up behind John with the...
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Now that I'd paddled enough to not feel like capsizing...
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Boston Harbor lighthouse.
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Look at that many, many-legged starfish!
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John explores the shore.
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He also has started smiling.
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Headed towards downtown.
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Trying to capture the Olympics peeking out under the clouds.
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Turns out I found it difficult to take a straight photo...
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Making my kayak bigger than it really was.
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Sea anemone enemies!
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Mom - is this jack-in-the-pulpit? Or skunk cabbage?
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John exploring the beach at Burfoot Park.
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Bridges of the PNW!
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We had no idea what was going on here: the large bank...
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Catherine on a great PNW bridge.
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In an effort to tire ourselves out before trying to go...
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Also, the flowers have started blooming.
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Catherine takes a picture of John taking a picture.
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The Washington State Legislative Building.
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The sky reflecting on the super-calm surface of Capitol Lake.
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One last shot, with the rest of the Willamette River...
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My friend Stephanie and I, after a nice bike ride. Best...
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Contributed some beauty to the local landscape by...
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A view of the lovely flower boxes outside my apartment,...
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Close-up on the petunias and heather (?).
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More wild sweet peas, on the side of the road near work.
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Close-up of the flowers.
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A couple of weeks back, I biked out to Boat Builder...
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Bill and I with the boat.
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Anyone know what kind of tree this is? It's tall and pokey.
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Olympia friends Sarah, Justin, John, and Stephanie at...
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Self-photo, since I wasn't in the group one.
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After a lot of work (primarily by Bill), Sparkle is on...
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Closer shot, showing the gorgeous woodwork on the sides.
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Attempting to point at bow number 05.
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Driving down the street.
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Dad and I get her ready to come off the trailer.
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Unhooking some things, hooking others...
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In the air!
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Another (better) shot of the bow.
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Liftoff!
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On the hoist at Zittel's Marina.
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Okay, test one passed! (she floats)
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Step 2: put mast in, secure vertically.
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How many sailors does it take to secure something or...
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Susan thought to bring Sparkle-ing cider to recognize...
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Dad gets in on the fun.
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Cheers! I did splash some on the boat, too, so we can...
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Mast + sunshine.
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The bow and "cockpit", or area with most of the...
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Being towed from Zittel's to West Bay.
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Self-photo.
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Another self-photo, from the bow during the tow.
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On the dock at West Bay.
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Another shot. Gosh she looks good.