Cool

Boring

"I can't think of anything more boring than a picture of a bird on a bird feeder."

Lego Shark Thingy

The lego birthday project is taking shape, brick by brick, night by night.

Echo's of the world cup...

...one can dream :-)

Bainbridge Ferry

Looking across the sound to the island with the ferry in the distance.

Our favourite park

We took the gang to our favourite park — sorry Angus, we didn't get to the bakery — to fly kites, admire the view and

pose for the odd piccy.

After hair cut

Compare and contrast.

Wet day in Seattle

Crossing the 520 floating bridge on ST545 was depressing, mid span both sides of the lake were hidden by low cloud.

fortunately, the weather cleared quick smart,

but the kids weren't as cooperative when it came to grabbing a picture of all four of them!

Before the hair cuts

Honda x3

Rule of thirds...

Rule of thirds? What rule of thirds?

Expensive education? What expensive education?

Kirkland

Kirkland, WA.

Coupeville

Coupeville, WA.

Bin Wrapper

"Looks like something you'd buy to wrap the waste bin in"

Welcome to, the Twilight Zone

Stones

Bucket & Spade

Note to self: before promising afternoon excursion with bucket and spade to build sand castles, ensure "beach" includes "sand".

Deception Pass

Our grand circular tour included Deception pass on the north end of Whidbey Island...

The boy's managed the walk upto Goose Rock - the highest point on the island - and in so doing bagged another summit :-)

But having reached the top, only a quick view across to the San Juan islands was allowed, before F insisted we run down to spend some 'quality time' on the beach...

Snapped

Granny I and Granny II

Two grannies came to visit, they had a great time even though many things were closed

Including the beach path at South Whidbey State Park.

But still, we had a great game of hide and seek on the woodland trail.

Tug tug

Inspired by the class B tug boat race...

... F made his own, with a little help from the center for wooden boats - thanks!

More on flickr.

Cops and Robbers

"Who's nicked our red flashing light?"

Ships Ahoy

Checking out the action at Seattle Maritime Festival.

Garden in May

Another year, another May, a different garden, but just as beau-de-ful.

For Jekko

The deer came and visited us this morning

but they heard that Jekko had missed them, so they came back again this evening!

Start them young

 All those late  night conference calls on distributed applications with CORBA when H was 6 months old and not sleeping appear to have rubbed off, and not least because I discovered that CORBA was good for something...

Today email via sneaker-net; tomorrow kernel hacker?

 

Related link: bed time story for under five insomniacs.

Litter bug advertising

It might only be second growth forest, but I'm sure this isn't the kind of advertising emerald city smoothie had in mind.

Four dry

Lake Washington is higher than usual (check it out) which meant the beach was under water and instead of playing around the rocks we had to balance on them.

Luckily we had no wet feet!

Soccer Practice

Dad lost, 24-16

:-(

Flat chin

A last minute dive to stop H from scoring an equaliser resulted in a slight flattening of F's chin. It's alright, most people don't notice, especially in dim lighting.

Chilling

F chilling in Bassetti Gardens.