Thursday, October 23, 2008

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There are four more here, though I don’t think that they’re as good.  I’m working on seeing things from different perspectives, so expect some unusual pictures.

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Now playing: Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
- Henry David Thoreau

Marten Creek, Snoqualmie Lake Trail (#1002), Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Near North Bend, WA, USA
Sunday, October 19, 2008

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Now playing: Faith No More - Falling To Pieces
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Autumn is my favorite season and it’s somewhat rare for us to have a really dry time during it. Frequently, the leaves are rained and blown off the trees before they have a chance to turn much. The rains are supposed to return today, though.

Enjoy!

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1. Trio, 2. Pumpkin Pile, 3. Ghost Pumpkins, 4. Pumpkins

Remember, these are cropped. Click on the links to see the full shot.

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

There’s another mosaic behind the cut.

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Pteridology: Study of ferns and other pteridophytes (seedless vascular plants)

Today our family took a walk along the Coal Creek Trail. It was wet, muddy, green, and covered with fallen leaves. Yum.

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Now playing: Flogging Molly - Screaming At The Wailing Wall
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A ‘gravely disabled’ mental health care system
State’s broken process wastes money, chances, lives

“We wouldn’t let an Alzheimer’s patient leave the hospital to go sit on a sidewalk grate and rot,” Roy-Byrne said. “But we do that all the time for people who are mentally ill.”

State pays in blood for flawed mental health system
Laws kept suspects from care

 A Seattle P-I analysis found the state is spending $1.8 billion on mental illness. But most is spent in courtrooms, squad cars, jail cells, homeless shelters and emergency rooms, not on prevention or long-term treatment. The biggest price taxpayers pay for mental illness in this state is not the cost of treatment — it’s the cost, and consequences, of failure to treat.

¹ My 15 year-old son spent three years struggling to get the help that he needed to recover from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that came close to destroying him and our family. We almost lost him, despite pleading for help with every organization and department that we could find.

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Now playing: Ventures - Walk-Don’t Run
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Beware octopodes bearing gifts.

Octopus in Sculpey, holding a sand dollar, a shell, a flower, and seaweed.

Created Sunday, September 7, 2008

Carl S. English, Jr. Botanical Gardens
Hiram M. Chittenden (Ballard) Locks
Seattle, WA, USA

August 19, 2008

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Please remember that these are not the full photos! The individual photos are much better. Click the links below to see the whole photo or you can find the whole set here.

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Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

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Now playing: Da Vinci’s Notebook - EP
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Pattern: Celtic Hearts Shawl by Vicki Mikulak

Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Luscious Single Silk in the colorway Valkyrie

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No, I haven’t forgotten about this project. I was just so busy planning to hike that I didn’t knit much!

I am on my last pattern repeat before starting the border. I’d really like to do one more pattern repeat, as it’s not quite as long as I’d like, but if I did, I would run out of yarn. As it is, I’m likely going to be pushing it.

I really love this delicious yarn, the pattern is knitting up easily, and this should be a great every day shawl. It’s totally snuggle-licious.

Link to the project on Ravelry

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Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Ballard neighborhood, Seattle, WA, USA

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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©2008 Dreaming Crow Studios: All rights reserved.

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This was taken during a trip to the Locks with the children. The photos aren’t all that great, perhaps, but I found them interesting. The full set can be found here.

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