Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you! Painted on my iPad, based on the cover of an old VHS Empire Strikes Back.

Tulip Festival 2010

Yesterday, Ruth and I celebrated the third anniversary of the day I proposed at the Tulip Festival:

Tulip Festival 2010

Sunny Day at Seahurst Park in Burien

It was a beautiful sunny day Saturday, so we went to Seahurst Park, and I did this sketch while we were there.

I was young when the sea wall went up at Seahurst Park, and it's always felt like the park's dominant feature to me. My Dad would jog at the park regularly, and I would join him sometimes when he could pry me away from Saturday morning cartoons. I remember when the sea wall was new and the concrete pavers on the path along the top of the wall hadn't settled yet. They were musical because they would ring a little bit when we ran along the path.

Now I've heard that the northern part of the wall will be removed, just like the southern wall has been. It will take some getting used to. I'm still not used to how the southern half of the park has changed. I know it's all for the best, environmentally, and now the beach will feel like the dominant feature of the park when our family visits the park in the coming decades.

Link Light Rail Sketch

Link Light Rail trains at Tukwila International Boulevard Station. 

Hammering Man Sketch

Hammering Man outside the Seattle Art Museum. 

Burien Library and City Hall Sketch

 

This is a sketch of the Burien Library and City Hall I did on February 15, 2010. I have to remember to use a different pen next time I combine ink and watercolor. The pen bled a bit when it got wet.

Lightning Pictures

A big lightning storm passed by to the east last night. I managed to get some pictures of it from the west hill of Kent. The pictures that show multiple strikes are composites of several pictures. The picture with the most strikes covers a four minute time period. Each individual exposure was two seconds. I used a free program called Startrails to put the images together.

Lightning Storm - July 2, 2008

They might use one of my photos on APOD!

The Astronomy Picture of the Day site is considering using one of my pictures from our Honeymoon trip:

Spelling with Flickr

Lifehacker had a link to this a tool that lets you Spell with Flickr. I used it to create this: