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Miriam Girl

Friday, April 28th, 2006

This is a recent image of Miriam, my 18 month-old twin. I’m not gonna go all daddy sloppy about how damn beautiful she is. But you get my drift. She gets the hang of the camera and poses for it. Adin, the other twin, marches right up to the camera and tries to grab it from me.

I took both kids out for a walk to Madrona Beach on Lake Washington yesterday. They both appear to have discovered the water for the first time. When they saw me throwing sticks into the lake for our dog, Gede, Miriam spent the next 40 minutes doing little else but throwing her own sticks into the Lake. Then she’d bring sticks over the Gede and, instead of thowing them for her, she held them right under Gede’s mouth (Gede was naturally not interested). Miriam thought it would be nice to give Gede the stick rather than make her go retrieve it. Gede, being a retriever, had other ideas.

When it was time to go Miriam let me know in no uncertain terms that she wasn’t happy leaving her new-found watery playground.

Tags: child-photography, lake-washington, madrona-beach
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Seattle: Spring has Sprung!

Monday, March 8th, 2004

Today is a glorious day in Seattle. It’s sunny, the temperature is 64 F and the wind blows at 6 mph. This is the first real day of Spring. I took the dog for a walk and wore a light denim jacket. After working up a bit of a sweat during the uphill portion of the walk, I realized I didn’t need the jacket. Even the shirt became too warm at one point. What liberation, what freedom after a full winter of parkas and warm coats.

Today, we did a 90 minute circuit along Lake Washington and through Frink Park and back home via Leschi Natural Area.

Frink Park waterfall

My dog, Gede is a yellow lab & as such loves water of all kinds. She chases sticks into Lake Washington even in the coldest part of winter. Today, she was in heaven as I threw endless vollies into the water and she did the dog paddle through the water clear as glass to fetch the sticks.

The roses are starting to leaf out, apple and the early cherry trees are sprouting their pink and white flowers in profusion. The scent of daphe odora perfumes the air. The unfortunately named (and no less beautiful for it) skunk cabbage has sent its yellow cones forth from the ground. In Frink Park, there is an entire bed of them sprouting from a a watery bog beside the old Lake Washington Blvd. My two or three year old spiketail (stachyurus praecox) growing on my deck has a profusion of yellow bell-like flowers hanging from its branches.

Spiketail (stachyurus praecox)

Unlike most shrubs, its flowers come at the close of winter along with new buds.

I was so jazzed by the warmth and general Spring stimulus that I hopped on the Frink Park swings and toppped out near the maximum height. The up and down motion almost made me dizzy with fun and pleasure.

We stopped at the Leschi Natural Area for one of the best views on the western shore of Lake Washington. As I sat on a massive rock drinking in the sunshine and view, the cool, bracing wind rippled across my face. I was sorry at that moment that you can’t photograph the wind. I so wanted to convey its effect to you in some tangible way. I guess words will have to do.

To view these images in larger format and see all my Frink Park photos, visit my online photo gallery: Into the Great Wide Open