Sunday, January 21, 2007
ice skating @ Seattle Center
I'm thrilled to announce that my ice skating @ Seattle Center photo has been selected for use on the Washington State Tourism website. Thanks to the powers that be for choosing this photo - I had a wonderful time taking it during our New Years Eve @ the Needle excursion.
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Multnomah Falls
Our first road trip of the season. We were headed to Portland but we got a late start, so we crossed our fingers and hoped to find the waterfalls along the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge area frozen. Luckily the temps have been low enough lately that we found exactly what we were looking for.
We stopped at Wahkeena, Multnomah, and Horsetail Falls - each as icy as can be and each more beautiful than the last.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
self portrait
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
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Monday, January 01, 2007
rainbow over the Needle
Happy New Year from the greater Puget Sound area. Hope everyone has a blessed and safe 2007.
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