The Difficult Journey/Signs

Photos from my archive:  The fish ladder at the Ballard Locks in Seattle.  Built to allow salmon pass between fresh and salt water, and to navigate the locks.  Glass panels below the water line make it possible to watch the salmon as they swim through the ladder.  After reading The Difficult Journey and watching salmon struggle against the current, I thought of not eating salmon again.

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School Bus/Mellow Yellow Monday

From the archives:  A school bus parked by the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle, WA.

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White Phlox/Today's Flowers #27

Purity of the heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you. 
~ Vanna Bonta

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Purple Petunia/Today's Flowers # 25

A profusion of purple at a lamp post in Seattle.


When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things. ~ Ani Difranco

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Thistle/Today's Flowers # 24

Love withers with predictability; it's very essence is surprise and amazement.  To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.  ~ Leo Buscaglia

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Butterfly Bush/Today's Flowers #23

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The simplest  things are often the truest. ~ Richard Bach

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Mellow Yellow Monday #3

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Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Yard Art on Thursdays

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"Salmon Waves" is a permanent sculpture installation at the Ballard Locks in Seattle, Washington.  Crafted from stainless steel, there are 3,000 screws holding the waves together.  This sculpture celebrates the improvements made to the Locks enhancing smolt migration.

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