Sleepless in Seattle.

Giddyup.

As you may have figured out, we extended our stay in Seattle a few more days.  We are working from here during the day and playing at night.   Today is our anniversary, as well.   It just so happens that we got engaged while on a trip to Seattle to attend Patrick and Nga’s wedding.   Monte popped the question and gave me a ring in a waterfront restaurant here – Elliott’s Oyster House on Pier 56.  Nice memories.   So…. since we were in town, we just had to go there for dinner tonight to celebrate.

After work we popped over to Seattle on the ferry.  The mountain was out, though a bit hazy.

Whenever riding the ferry, I buy a bag of cheetos to feed to the seagulls.   Monte had them eating out of his hand.

In Seattle, we walked down the waterfront for a while.    At Elliott’s, we had a great table by the window overlooking the Sound and watched the sailboats and ferries go by as the sun set.  We sampled as much of the seafood as possible – oysters, crab cakes, scallops, salmon…..the food and wine was delicious.

Afterwards we walked up and down the waterfront on the way back to the ferry.   The weather was great.  The first shot in this post is of one of the horses on an antique carousel inside of Miner’s Landing on Pier 57.

A lovely evening indeed.  Goodnight Seattle…

Mar 10, 2011

Grand.

I’m very excited that one of my best friends from high school, Irene, is here for a visit with her husband, Joseph.   They live in Seattle.  Their son Jeremy is competing in the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship @ Texas A&M this weekend in the heptathlon, for the University of Washington.   They’re staying with us tonight before driving up to College Station tomorrow.  They flew in this evening and we went to dinner at Chez Nous (*love* that place) and walked around downtown afterward.

We buzzed through the landmark Driskill Hotel.  This is a shot of the huge glass ceiling decoration over the main lobby.

Nice.

Mar 8, 2011

Happy 1st blogoversary!

Today is the 1 year anniversary of my starting this blog.   To mark the occasion, I made a collage using all 365 of the moments that I’ve posted here.

I can recall taking each one.   🙂

I started this in early March last year, in time to capture the signs of Spring, and into the Summer as things began to warm up and as we spend so much time on the lake… then through the changes in Fall and Winter when we spend more of our time on projects and playing with friends on land.  I’ve come full circle, and am looking forward all the moments from the coming year.

Happy Mardi Gras!   and  HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lori and to Mary!

Mar 7, 2011

Day #365!!!

Today’s post makes the 365th moment that I have shared with you.  This is a shot of one of the geraniums I planted yesterday that I took today during a break between conference calls.

I’m very pleased that I have stuck with this post-a-photo-per-day-for-a-year project.  There were some days that I found it difficult to see something worth sharing.   But I have to say that most days I looked forward to toting my camera around with me, and was usually pleased to find a moment that was either a photo that I liked or at least made for a nice story to share.

Wow, a year.   365 moments.   It goes by fast.

I look forward to keeping my blog going.  I don’t know that I will be posting something every day, but I am definitely looking forward to posting more moments worth sharing.

A colleague of mine passed away over the weekend after a fight with cancer.  He was only 51.

I can only hope that you all have many more years left on this earth to share with your friends and family.   But since we never know when our time will be up, we have to take the time to enjoy and be thankful for each and every day that we get to spend with them.   I have done that for a year.   And I hope to from here on out…

Feb 16, 2011

Ralfka.

For dinner we made a mad dash for our local Chuy’s — before the thundering hoards arrived.

The walls in much of the restaurant are covered in the art of Ralfka Gonzalez, an artist from nearby San Antonio.

This is just a sampling.

I like the painting with the phases of the moon at the bottom; especially because tonight the moon is about 98% full.  Friday at 2:30 AM Central time it will be the Full Snow Moon.

I’ll just pretend it wasn’t 72 degrees here today 🙂