December
Video: Waymo - driverless cab to the Castro from James and Keith's in SF/SOMA
2023 December Album: Market and 24th building rises to its full height. Yvonne hosts luncheon for Jen and JC, Noah and Natasha. We visit James and Keith in SF, see their improvement, they cook dinner and we meet two of their friends, we tour the Filoli mansion and grounds and then Sweeney Ridge where the Portolà expedition first glimpsed San Francisco Bay in 1769, then a Diego Rivera mural at SFMOMA, a Waymo driverless cab ride to the Castro and a drag show brunch, a big hoilday party with James and Keith's Burner friends. In Ballard Christmas music with Alison, Tim and Cindy at Egan's Jame House. In Olympia lunch with NNM (&Tessa) &O and Jen. Sarah gives us a tour of her Glazer Photo work. Christmas Eve dinner with Jen, JC, Rosa, and Miriam. Yvonne makes lunch for Sylvia abd Gordon. Dave and Kathy have us over for dinner in Bellevue. We see Willie Wonka with Alison at Cinerama and the Christmas doings at Seattle Center. A New Years Eve walk at Discovery Park.
November
2023 November Album: Visit to Carkeek Park to see the salmon returning and trying to get past the beaver dams. Construction on Market-24th Ave big apartment build move ahead steadily. Visit to Orcas: a play at the Grange, walk around Mountain Lake, Deer Harbor Community Club potluck, looks good, now mostly younger people we don't know, visit to Crane Island to see Maragaret and lunch, our house is empty for the winter and looking sad, Thomerson's have an EV, dinner with Kate and Ken, Olga Symphony at the ferry landing, Ethnic Studies class at UW looks at Nordics in Seattle, Barry with the pallet lift, waiting in line for the Nordic Museum Holiday Fest - with Alison, Thanksgiving at Ray's Boathouse.
October
2023 October Album: Halloween - Market and Ballard (should be last photo), Cedar River Watershed and Rattlesnake Lake, continuing construction at Market and 24th Ave, Ethnic Studies AES150, Connie So, back at Swedish for tests, Yvonne's childhood home, 9614 57th Ave. S, Gene Coulon Memorial Park in Renton, Forrest Whitman Memorial service from Salida, Ballard Alliance - 12 more years reception: Mike Stewart, City Council: Dan Strauss. Sara Nelson, Mayor Bruce Harrell, Vashon Island Dambo troll (Bird King), JC & John watching "Creator", Barry and repairs on 24th Ave door, UW campus and Burke Museum exhibit, Nordic Museum Exhibit, Yvonne's fresh hot apple pie, Julie brings rubarb pie from Ellensburg, landscaping crew collects wet leaves, UW Israel/Palestine rally, Dave Carpenter in Issaquah with Jakob Two Trees troll
September
2023 September Album : Early September spent the day at Boeing's Museum of Flight. Many old and significant airplanes as well as restored original Boeing factory. Visit to Bob and Sue Foulk, once Deer Harbor neighbors, now on Mercer Island. Twin bridge walk over Ballard Bridge, then along south side of Ship Canal, across Fremont Bridge and back to Ballard on the north side. Visit to NNM&O + Tessa in Olympia, sister Julie visits from Colorado Springs. Nordic Museum hosts troll, Yvonne bakes delicious plum pie, Sting concert with Jen, JC, and Alison
August
2023 August Album 2023 August was smoky at times. Our fireplace exhaust was secured to the building. Juan Carlos was in Spain settling Rosa's condo sale, Mehiel's in town for Alaska cruise with Bob and Diane, window washers cleaned up, produce froom Ballard Farmer's market, walk around Discovery Park, lots of activity at Ballard Locks including lots of salmon, construction advances at Market and 24th, Metropole 7th floor party, elevator outage, Salt&Sugar fall plantings, hot day Ballard Farmer's market and John's heart attack
July
2023 July Album 2023 July July 4th, Kathleen's birthday with Julie, Seafood Fest, Kaylee's birthday, Iceland Borgfest/Yvonne's birthday, Seattle Art Fair, Nordic Museum Jon's Flod exhibit. Iceland: Yvonne & John; Jeni and cousin Lisa; Noah&Natasha&Opal; Eric&Kristin&Jackson&Callum; James&Keith
June
Graduations
Opal's graduation: https://youtu.be/_VroP06gVl4
Jackson's graduation: https://youtu.be/uhtKDuzj90E
2023 June Album Construction, animals and landscape, James and Keith in Italy, UCSB Santa Barbara to look then Los Osos for Jackson's graduation, Opal's graduation, Phinney Ridge classic autos, new tennants in Olympia
May
Memorial Day in Troy, ID, meeting Martin, Tony's son: https://youtu.be/OX_8RICn6A8
April
2023 April album First of April in Colorado Springs, stayed with Paul and Peggy, who was sick. Walk with Julie at Fountain Creek Regional Park. Dinnerr with P&P: Chris, Julie, Cooper, Phoebe, Alan, Paul, Peggy, John, Yvonne - no photos. Sunday Palm Sunday church - why is it Good Friday? Crones drape black crepe over Easter plants/life,. Yvonne visits Cathy in Denver. Boulder stay with Alan - dinner at Phillips' - Dave back pain - with Alan and Sally, Dave and Ann, Barb and Dean. Snow overnight so Dean decides he can't go to Chimayo. See 2023 Chimayo for album. Cherry blossoms at U of Washingtom, Duwamish First Peoples' Park, John's birthday on top of Columbia Center, then brunch birthday party with WA family and FaceTime to everyone else celebrating Jackson's 18th.
March
2023 March - UW Architecture lectures, construction progress at Market and 24th (assembling a tower crane), Rosa, JC, Jen back from Spain while Bill and Billy cat-sat, spring flowers, Rick Steves on travel as a spiritual act, reopening Ballard Commons park, 43rd anniversary at India Bistro, street art, blue herons nesting at the locks, a walk at Discovery Park with Jen, Metropole Board Meeting
February
Los Osos Trip video Audio only on the clips from Callum's Senior Honors Band Concert
Album - Market and 24th construction, architecture class, flowers coming, Ballard locks, Los Osos visit, Carnation Wastewater Plant tour - and more!