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Category: families

  • In her shoes

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    Chris gives me a hard time about my silly shoes, made for looking cute, not for walking. Pointy toes, pencil heels, four-inch platforms — I know they’re ridiculous, but I can’t help loving them.I saw these shoes at the Henry, and even I had to agree, they don’t look very comfortable.Woman’s stilted sandals from the…

  • Discovery Park

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    Seattle was blessed with a beautiful fall Sunday, sunny and breezy, perfect for a walk. After living in the area more than four years, I visited Discovery Park for the first time. Chris and I hoped to spot a cougar, but the closest thing we saw was a lady in a WSU hat. A bald…

  • Paradise

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    Chris and I took advantage of a rare day off together to visit Paradise on Mount Rainier. The alpine meadows were blooming a brilliant red.

  • Zig zag shadows

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    When the wife and husband team Weiss/Manfredi designed the Olympic Sculpture Park, they had to find a way to navigate across Elliott Avenue and railroad tracks.Their graceful solution is a walkway that zig zags over these obstacles. You can see the pattern from the air, and also echoed in the late afternoon shadows on Elliott.

  • Morning light

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    I’m an obscenely cheerful morning person. (Hard to believe I worked the night shift for almost three years, when I’d regularly stumble home after 1 a.m.)I love watching the sun rise. First pink, then gold streaking into my kitchen.

  • Protected: Ferry ride to Bremerton

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  • Protected: Zoom!

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  • Protected: A morning at the beach

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  • Jake’s senior pictures

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    Understandably, Kathy was a little worried about the two people driving around in her Honda. One was her teenage son, Jake, with a learner’s permit; the other was me, a city transplant who hasn’t driven in three years.Jake drove back to the house without hitting anyone, and I got a great tour of West Seattle.…

  • Protected: A photo book for Nora

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