Late again, but this might be worth waiting for. July 4 Fireworks from Bellevue, WA

Again this year, we packed up the picnic gear and headed over to Bellevue Downtown Park for the fireworks show. They set off the fireworks literally right over your heads, across the street from the roof of the Bellevue Square parking garage. This year, it was especially crowded, due to the celebration of America's 250th …

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It was my lucky day-Mother Nature smiled.

Over the weekend, I was driving around doing errands in the lousy weather, when I noticed a beautiful photo just waiting for me to capture it. When I returned, I discovered that it lacked one feature that is very important to a photographer: Vantage point. The nearest parking place was a considerable distance away, and …

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Something else I found on my trip to Hawaii…Birds!

I am an amateur bird-watcher, and when I see a new one, I check it off on my "Life List", which is in the back of my 1960s edition of Roger Tory Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds (which is now a collector's item).  Fortunately, in this guide are two pages of pictures of Hawaiian …

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