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Machinery and people at the Port Townsend Boatyard:



An old engine sits and waits for either resurrection or rust...



It was actually quite astonishing to watch the driver of the boat lift maneuver it around the yard... There wasn't a lot of room to start with, and between cars, workers, and photographers there was a lot of traffic.

Weatherbeaten, on both color and monochrome versions:





Sometimes it's interesting to see how different edits of a single photograph bring out different views of the subject.

Another beautiful weekend, maybe (crosses fingers) we've finally turned the corner for the year.

Saturday - Up at 5.30AM (shudder) to head up to Pt Townsend with the Kitsap Photography Guild for a photowalk at the Port Townsend Shipyard. It was pretty cool to be able to walk among the boats being worked on.

I'm still processing the pictures, but here's the one I've done so far:


Pygmies against a giant.

Afterwards, lunch in Port Orchard (BBQ at Dos Okies, yum!) and few errands then back home for a nap and grilled burgers for dinner.

Sunday - Up to our friends Bruce and Laurie's. While Brenda and Laurie worked on a scribal project, Bruce, their daughter Becca, and I went up to Bloedel Reserve. Becca and I taking pictures of the plant life and scenery, while Bruce found a succession of benches to flake out on. (He'd been on a dive the day before and was still pretty tired.) Afterwards, back to their place for dinner.

I do not have mad editing skilz, so this still needs more work... practice, practice, practice.

Ok, I've overused the word "awesome" the last couple of day, but what the hell... it's my LJ after all.

Friday - Off in the evening with a raftload of friends to see The Avengers, which was *awesome* as I've said elsewhere. Afterwards, over to the Cloverleaf for beer, wings, pizza, and chatter and hanging out.

Saturday - Housework during the day, then Soren and Inga came over for Cinco de Mayo dinner. Grilled chicken burritos, Mexican Rice, home made frijoles refritos (awesome, much better than the glop from cans), and margaritas. Flan for dessert.

Sunday - Chuck came over and we hung out and then grilled steaks for dinner. I even got a photo session in, running out to the airport to catch the sun setting behind the Olympics.

Leftovers (burritos) for lunch today, and steak-and-eggs (eggs from a friends chickens) for dinner today.

The Avengers - deep fried awesome served with awesomesauce and a side of awesome crunchies.

If you're a comic book geek, or enjoy action/superhero movies, and haven't seem it yet: Drop what you're doing and head out to the nearest theater it's showing at *NOW*. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow...

Doing a bit of housework, and the bubble in the sink caught my eye...

Little Molly pig complains about the slowness of service at breakfast, and explains how she is a poor, starved, and mistreated little piggie. (You may have to turn up the volume to hear.)



She's currently living solo in a 2x3 because she just finished her quarantine period. As soon as the 2x8 arrives, she'll be introduced to our other three girls.

I'm installing a trial version of some photo-editing software. It was interesting to watch the last five years go by (nothing older on this machine) as it crawled my catalog and created thumbnails.

On the other hand, it was very disconcerting considering the cultural connotations of "having your life flash in front of your eyes". (Especially when it came across the folders of pictures of Caramel and of Dad...)