By: The Philosophical Fish|04 February, 2012|Categories: Photo a Day - 2012|Tags: 366 . photography . Travel
February 4, 2012 – The Seattle Boat Show is enough of an excuse for a train trip to Seattle for the weekend. At this time of year it is dark when you board, and the sun comes up as you head across the river and towards the Pacific Ocean. It’s always a beautiful trip. I love Seattle, almost as much…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|28 January, 2012|Categories: Photo a Day - 2012|Tags: 366 . family . memories . photography . Travel
January 28, 2012 – At least as far as the Coquihalla highway in January is concerned. As a general statement, I hate this highway. No matter what time of year, its only redeeming quality is the ability to get into the Thompson-Shuswap-Okanagan region fast. As much as fast means when you start out in clear weather, then head into fog,…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|25 January, 2012|Categories: Photo a Day - 2012|Tags: 366 . photography . Travel
January 25, 2012 – This is a rarity for me. I generally time things out in such a way that I walk into the terminal, down through the shops, and usually wait no more than a few minutes before walking onto the ferry. It would have been that way today except that when the meeting ended and I thought I’d…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|16 January, 2012|Categories: Photo a Day - 2012 . Travel|Tags: 366 . photography . Travel
January 16, 2012 – A few months ago, on the spur of the moment, we decided to go to France in the Spring. So now that Christmas is out of the way we are starting to think about it a bit more and Kirk has been looking into flights. A woman in my office was there for a month or…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|18 December, 2011|Categories: Photo a Day - 2011 . Travel|Tags: 365 . photography . Travel
Day 2 in Seattle and we just spent the day wandering and enjoying the city. We meandered through Pike Place Market and watched people wake up. This person was busking outside of a bookstore at the market. We thought we’d stop by the original Starbucks and pick up a coffee, but apparently half the city had the same idea. The…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|18 December, 2011|Categories: 52 Weeks|Tags: 52 weeks . photography . transportation . Travel
How often can you get this sort of shot without a human in it? Thanks to a wonderful monorail driver I did. She let me stay just that extra minute and held the other riders off so that I could get it.
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|17 December, 2011|Categories: Photo a Day - 2011 . Travel|Tags: 365 . photography . Travel
We used the International Motorcycle Show in Seattle, Washington as an excuse to get away for the weekend and what a fabulous, entertaining weekend it was! We took the train, which means getting up at 4:30am to get ready, deal with animals, and get across town for the 6:40am departure. We fell onto the train with all the other sleepy…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|17 December, 2011|Categories: 52 Weeks|Tags: 52 weeks . photography . Travel
We spent the weekend in Seattle to visit the International Motorcycle Show. It was really an excuse to get out of town for a couple of days and just do something fun, and it was worth it. We had a wonderful time, the weather was great Saturday, and tolerable Sunday. And this fellow was wonderful. He had the kindest eyes…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|06 December, 2011|Categories: Photo a Day - 2011|Tags: 365 . photography . Travel
I am in in Victoria for a conference and when I registered they gave me a bag of swag. Rather than wander around with it for hours I zipped back up to my room to drop it off. I poked through it and found a Purdy’s chocolate barStarving I decided to eat it before heading back down. I went to…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|15 October, 2011|Categories: Photo a Day - 2011|Tags: 365 . photography . Travel
288/365 (Oct 15, 2011) – Winter is coming… Not that it ever really left in some areas. This was an amazing year for the snow sticking around. In August we rode up to the top of Mt. Baker and there were still piles of snow at the upper parking lot. While the top of Mt. Garibaldi never completely becomes free…
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