Spring flowers, Salt and Sugar ceiling leak, National Nordic Museum, Oscars, bus shelter, Sarah visits J&K in SF, 44th-anniversary dinner, rooftop planting, Metropole fuse blows, UW cherry blossoms, wetlands walk, Ballard Alliance, Jen/JC Tesla, Justin Jr and Noah, Corrina remembered, My Fair Lady, Boulder, Taos, Espanola, and Chimayo - Good Friday walk, etc.
32nd Ave
Mysterious rain-related leak from Salt & Sugar ceiling/Metropole floor
National Nordic Museum exhibit
Especially the patterns made by flocks of birds
Energized Biden State of the Union address
Outside Metropole on 57th St
Three hours watching the Oscars. We had fun.
JC's contest to see who could guess best picture.
City installing bus shelter pad outside S&S to the consternation of some
First move-ins planned for November
Sarah visits James and Keith
Indian Bistro
44th Anniversay!
Roof plantings
Partial power failure
"Fuse" had blown on phase C, picture at bottom
White fuse dangles from third line
Not a transformer problem
Seattle City Light linemen in a bucket replacing fuse
AOK next morning
SPD understaffed so private security hired, here at Ballard Farmers Market
UW cherry trees in the Quad at their best
Walk near campus looking at Lake Washington
Ballard Alliance meeting for multi-family housing
Jen and JC get Tesla
Justin Jr and Uncle Noah take Grandpa John to lunch
While women remember Corrina
Tulips and double-flower white jonquils replace yellow daffodils
Community Theater doing My Fair Lady
At George's in Walsenberg, on the way to Taos in a seven-person van
Taos - Casa Benavides Inn - melting snow trickles down
Our room
Lounge
Reception
Ann and Dave appear just as we arrive
Dinner at Orlando's
Ann and Dave's room with outside wall art
Live music at Taos Inn/Doc Martin's - Michael Burke
Breakfast at Casa Benavides
Looking for Millicent Rogers' grave
We love them so much!
Los Luceros Historic Site north of Espanola
Rio Grande
Hacienda de Chimayo - Uno as always
Rancho de Chimayo
Devilish addition to Haciends
What are we walking for? Everything is falling apart.
Tattoos make John and Dean even tougher
In Seis, breakfast before the walk.
Big crowd on the High Road
Snow-capped Jemez mountains and Los Alamos across the Rio Grande Valley
Dave, almost 90, is slow but remarkable after back surgery
Raymond and Elizabeth say it's the busiest day in years
Elizabeth Kay describes her almost-published 600-page illustrated family history
Low low rider
Dean directs Alan to cover Exit signs that destroyed the last night's sleep for them
Friday dinner at the Rancho
Cosy Uno
We didn't care - just wore our sleep masks
Ann and Dave talk to owner Florence - who comped us again.
Breakfast before we left for Taos, Elizabeth joined us and explained about her 600-year family research and printing in China
We started in 1993. Tessa has gone. Sally has come.
Taos Bent St mall
Mabel Dodge Lujan House
Mary Hunter Austin room - with writing desk conveniently located between toilet and bath tub
Reciting and recording a ChatGPT poem written to commemorate Dave's 90th
After breakfast ready to return to Boulder
In Boulder on the Mall at Gemini (Michael Mehiel) for tapas