Interbay freight train with green plants in the foreground.

I like this picture, it is very green! This picture was taken on June 18th of 2010. The location of this picture was about seventy five yards from the south end of the Ballard Bridge.

This is in Seattle's Interbay neighborhood. The "8193" is painted on the side of a parked Burlington Northern freight train. This is actually a very beautiful area, a mix of train tracks, industrial buildings and bridges. I think that this would be a great area to extend a bike trail through.

I posted other pictures from this same day here, and here, and here.

If you'd like to view of the front of the "8193" train, you can do so here.

Low to the ground view of stream in Carkeek Park on 07/05/2010

This picture was taken in a park in North Seattle called Carkeek Park. It was taken on the afternoon of July 5th, 2010.

This picture is of a freshwater stream that runs through the park. I climbed down into the creek bed, and held the camera close to the ground - this was probably about 12 inches above the ground.

I took some other pictures of the surface of this stream that day and posted them here and here.

Sinaloa Restaurant in Merced

I was just looking back through my Merced pictures, searching for a mystery photo I had forgotten about, when I came across this picture.

I had to post this picture because, it makes me nostalgic! I used to eat at this very spot when I was a little kid.

It had a different name then (what was it called?) but I can remember going here when I was very young.

Now it is called Sinaloa. Good times! It is a little hard to see, but to the right of the Sinaloa sign, you can see a very old 7 UP sign in the background.

If you are interested, you can see another picture of this restaurant here.

Leaf submerged underwater in a stream in Carkeek Park

This picture was taken yesterday, 07/05/2010. This picture was taken in a place in Seattle called Carkeek Park.

The water in this picture is a shallow stream that runs through the park. As you can see, there is a leaf submerged underwater.

Pic of graffiti cleanup that got on a blog

This picture was taken about a month ago. The man seen in this picture is a city of Seattle worker who is doing graffiti cleanup under a bridge in Seattle called the University Bridge.

After I took this picture, I thought to myself about the graffiti cleanup process. I lived in Seattle's University District from 2000 to 2008 (except for a brief stint in Fresno).

This area under the bridge has always been a target for graffiti, largely because they keep re-painting over the graffiti with an institutional gray color!

After pondering the cleanup of this area, I sent this image over to a local news blog, and they ended up running an excellent story about it.

I, for one, hope that a mural goes up in this area. The city used to play the same cat and mouse game up on Campus Parkway, where a large wall in a tunnel kept inviting graffiti. Around 2004, the city had some local artists come in and put up murals, which truly transformed this previously dark area for the better. Hopefully that's what can happen here.

Water on a random plant in Seattle.

I don't know what kind of plant this is, but you will see this plant all over the city of Seattle. I liked this picture. Often, when it rains, these plants look really cool because they have beads of water all over them.

There's another picture of water drops on this type of plant here.

Water drops on leaves and a flower in Seattle.

Random picture of a flower and some water on some leaves. This was taken someplace in Seattle, I neglected to document the location.