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Day 137: Feet on Beach!

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Bare feet on (foot in?) the Beach!

A little more Hong Kong Sunrise in the sand…

And in the water!

Wave washed tootsies.

Sinking out of sight…

…and rinsed clean again.

In the end…

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~Curtis on Kauai! {!-{>

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Day 136: More Beach!

Friday, May 18, 2012

The Dailylife Wife wanders down to see the Ocean!

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Next: Feet on Beach!

~Curtis on Kauai! {!-{>

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Day 135: Back to Kauai!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

We started our first full day on Kauai at a gathering of guests to offer activities for the week: snorkeling, sightseeing flights, dinner cruises, and so on. It was, as so many places are in Hawai’i, an open air pavilion.

A Red Crested Cardinal.

Of course, it being an open air pavilion, there are…chickens.

Another view of the scenery at the Bali Hai Villas!

And a chicken.

Then it is down to the Kilauea Lighthouse and National Wildlife Refuge that we saw earlier from the Pride of America.  (The second lighthouse down, near the bottom of the page…)

A Laysan Albatross.

Nest gathering.

Closer!

A view of the lighthouse from the Island side.

As I mentioned before, all of those white spots are roosting birds…

…mainly Laysan Albatrossesesess..<?>…

 …but also the occasional Red Footed Booby!

Then it was down to the beach and a few self portraits!

(iPod photos!)

Of course, some rate better than others…

More to come from the beach!

~Curtis on Kauai! {!-{>

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Day 134: More of the Dailylife Daughter #2′s Graduation!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The ceremony was held in the University of Puget Sound’s stadium.  Fortunately it was a sunny day!

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After about an hour and a half they begin the march!

Ever longer, it seems.

There she is!

Dailylife Daughter #2, orange sunglasses and all!

And there she goes, off to sit in the sun for another hour and a half!

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A clever mortarboard…it was Mother’s Day…

The hard way to photograph this graduation…

The Expensive way to photograph this graduation…

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A couple more mortarboards.

A couple of Tacoma’s Finest to keep the unruly crowd under control…

At last!

The slow, winding road to the podium.

Keep up!  Keep up!

Last in line again…

Get ready!  ”Caitlin Nicole…”

Stride forcefully.

Grasp hand firmly.

Gracefully accept empty diploma folder.

Restrain self from undue public display of joy, glee, euphoria, or tripping down the stairs.

Yup, Uh-huh, I did it, I did it!

Oh great.

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Another hour in the sun.  Well, there are 600 undergraduates and another 127 or so graduate students…

Roots.

Proud Dailylife Wife and Graduate.

Proud Author and Graduate.

What’s next?  Work, work, work!

~Curtis in Tacoma! {!-{>

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Special Edition!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Dailylife Daughter #2 made it!  Congrats!

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~Curtis at the University of Puget Sound! {!-{>

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Day 133: More from the iPod!

Saturday, May 12, 2012

“Someone” broke the mirror on the new Pilot…I had to duct tape it to keep it together until the Honda shop gets the new one.  Great Tape!

The crew with another gourmet dinner!

At the Playground in a Renton City Park.

Lugnut and Cait.

Toots on a wild ride!

There was a log roll…

Look closely: there are a squirrel and a beaver in the log!

The back of the rock climbing wall had a fossil…

Toots and Lugnut, hard at work!

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~Curtis in Renton…! {!-{>

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Day 132

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Art from my iPod!

And what it is…

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~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 131

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

A waning Gibbous Moon…

From Sunday night.

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 130…

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

This week down on the Missouri River…

Common Loon.

Ruddy Duck.

Well, any landing you can walk (or swim!) away from…

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~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 130.5

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Spring Bonus!

(1/1250, f4.5, 38.9mm, 200 ISO, -2/3 stop, Canon Powershot SX100IS)

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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