Thursday, September 10, 2009
| Posted by
Don and Krise
I had to hit the rewind button on this one. My wife reminded me of our trip to Pt Defiance Park a couple of weeks ago. Remember
this waterfall? Well just around the corner lie these turtles, sunning themselves on a nice warm rock. They were so relaxed, so comfortable that they hardly made a move. In fact it took my wife, older daughter and I about fifteen minutes of standing there watching them with our non believing seven year old for her to agree they were real. You know, it would have only taken a second or two for us to say that they weren't, but something makes us parents just keep working at it.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
| Posted by
Don and Krise
Somehow I don't think Grey Poupon was the first thing on their minds. Recently while we were driving through the "
Five Mile Drive" in
Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma we noticed two or three different raccoon families. They were not shy either. The first group came right up to the truck expecting us to hand over whatever it was they thought we had. A little farther along we ran into this "hold up gang" eyeballing us as we slowly drove by. The one on the left wasn't standing up until we got right beside her and stopped. Look at her front paws. I'm positive she was motioning us to "Stop the car, right there!" Look closely, her back up is in the brush to the right. We didn't stick around and negotiate.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
| Posted by
Don and Krise
This waterfall is just inside the entrance to Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma. This was taken this past Sunday. We went to the park to see the magnificent dahlias and roses. I'll be posting a couple of those shots in the near future, but this one seemed just right for
Watery Wednesday.
For more watery scenes click the link below.
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Watery Wednesday
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
| Posted by
Don and Krise
Some time back my wife and I took a drive up to Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma. The gardens there are beautiful and well kept. They are filled with roses, dahlias, hydrangea and much more. You might remember
this previous post from there. As much as I love posting my photos, tonight I have to give the credit to my wife for capturing this lily.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
| Posted by
Don and Krise
All right, I'm going to stick my neck out on this one. Yep, that's me in the late 60's, a skinny young kid holding onto my trusty Kodak Brownie. Even before the photography classes in high school, and yes even before digital I loved to photograph things. This particular photo was taken at
Ft Nisqually in
Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma. At that time I was involved in soccer. At the end of the season there was a Canadian exchange program. A Canadian soccer team would come down to our area & each of their players would stay with a member of the U.S. team for a weekend. A month or so later our team would then go up to Canada and stay with that player's family. It really was a wonderful program, and of course back then it didn't take an act of Congress to travel back and forth. Anyway, this is only one of many old photos I'm going to be posting as I organize 50 years or more of photographs. Okay, you can take your shots now.
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Friday, July 3, 2009
| Posted by
Don and Krise
This colorful display of flowers courtesy of Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma. If you like flowers, or photographing them, now is the time. I know the "flower bed" idea has been used many times before, but this was too nice to pass up.
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