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We had a great time on Whidbey!

More Useless Bay Excitement...

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Excitement at Useless Bay!

We had a great time at Useless Bay yesterday! Pat and I were snapping plenty of photos. These young men have their own skimboarding company called Jack'd Skimboards. They're locals of Whidbey Island, and we enjoyed taking photos of them doing their thing!

More Outing

I can't remember this little guy's name, but I know he's 19 weeks old and weighs 40-something pounds. In these photos, I snapped them in succession as he discovers he got a piece of grass in his mouth while playing with his chew toy and can't figure out how to get it out. Finally he decides he just doesn't want it in his mouth any longer and kind of gags it out. He went right back to chewing on his toy again! What a cutie!

Outing

I wasn't able to join the gang at the waterfront, so yesterday I went to the Cougar Mountain Zoo for the first time. What a treat! The two tiger cubs were a delight to see, and the Macaws were funny! And of course the beautiful Cougars. Here's a preview.

More Sun...

I love the flowers in my front yard!

Just for Fun!

My brother's girlfriend's dogs are incredibly cute. I found out the other day that Lacey here likes to pose for the camera. She was a wonderful photo shoot subject!

Faith

OK, this is a stretch... but I did have to have a lot of faith that after about 2 hours of waiting, I would even get to snap a photo of one of the bullfrogs that live near the creek at my brother's house. They are very shy and if they even hear you coming they're gone! Since I hadn't seen them before, I wasn't sure what I was looking for. And then, finally, I snuck up again for the last time and here was this gargantuan-sized frog resting in the water with only his head surfaced! This guy was about 10-12 inches in length, just look at those back webbed feet! He stayed for three shots before he submerged and swam away.

Sun

Oh, how I love the sun! More photos I snapped while we were driving around Mt. Rainier last Saturday. The sun was out, it was a beautiful day! Of the last three shots here that look similar, please tell me which one looks best and why - thanks!

Fun on Mt. Rainier

Bruce and I hosted a group of Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice owners on a drive around Mt. Rainier last Saturday. It was a 12-hour day in all, and we had a great time! Made new friends, and saw a couple we had gone to the drive-in movie with (Transformers). The photos from top to bottom: 1. One of the curvy roads we had fun on, notice the sign on the right warns of the hairpin coming up; 2. a photo from last month of the three Solstice owners and us (Sky owner) at a drive-in in Everett to see the movie "Transformers" - the transformer known as Jazz is a Solstice in the movie; 3. I was busy snapping photos through the rearview mirror as Bruce was driving; 4. one of our stops along the way. There were seven cars to start out the drive around the mountain, and we picked up an eighth car along the way. All in all there were two Solstices and six Skys.

Pairs

Pairs of my favorite Summer fruits, a pair of my favorite boots, and look at those eyes!!

Weight...lessness

How much do you think this little guy weighs?

Favorite Photo so far this year...

I thought it was a little unusual to see a quail in our backyard about a month ago. I spooked him and he flew up to the dead tree just beyond our fence.

Celebration

Bruce and I finally got the car we ordered July last year. We waited a whole year and picked it up on .... yes.... the 4th of July!!! That was our fireworks celebration!

More Depth

Bruce and I went on a road trip in our new car around Mt. Rainier last Friday. What a beautiful day!