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MY GRANDKIDS Amanda - The Queen Bee

Samantha - her brother Nicky is below inbetween Ashley and Bodie. (This system wouldn't let me go back and label it).

Ashley in red. This was the only decent picture I had of her. They are all saying "cheese" to the camera.

Bodie

THE JAPANESE TEA GARDEN SEATTLE WASHINGTON I like coming down here once in awhile to take some pictures. I take pictures of the same old things when I'm here. Sometimes I get a good picture or two.

Looking west

The view looking south of the garden.

View from the inside of a nure sagi lantern.

Looking east

I don't know the story about these turtles. The climate here in western Washington isn't supposed to support reptiles like these, but yet I've been seeing these turtles at the Japanese Garden for the last couple of years.

The friendly fish that congregate at the bridge in the middle of the lake beg like a bunch of finned dogs looking for a handout.

The tea house

Many tiered pagota

Lilly pads and lotus flowers

This is a little still life I put together a long time ago.

PIKE PLACE MARKET This is the ever popular Pike Place Market. It's been around here since the early 1900's. It is a great place to buy fresh fish and vegatables and other things. My great grand father William Sherman used to grow hubbard squash on his farm on Whidby Island and bring it down here to sell.
THE CANDY STORE I have been coming to this candy store for over 20 years to buy licorice. My favorite candy of all times is licorice buttons. They stopped making it a several years ago, so I buy whatever kind of licorice they have. They have licorice dogs and licorice cats. They've got German licorice and other kinds. My favorite for all time will always be licorice buttons. To get to this little store you walk into the front of the market where the brass pig is off Pike Place. You go passed the famous fish market to the stair at the right. Then go down the stairs and take another right . The Candy Store is on the right. You can't miss it.

On that particular day when I went to Pike Place Market I felt like going to one of the little resturants where you can sit and look out over the water while you are eating. I got this little salad and a glass of iced tea and took it easy for a few minutes.
What else is there to do when you are sitting there with a camera looking out the window? You take a picture of a ferry pulling into Colman Dock.

EASY STREET CAFE This is a little cafe located at the junction of California and Alaska in the heart of West Seattle. I go there for breakfast once in a while when I don't feel like cooking for myself on my days off. Ajoined to the cafe is a record store. Many times I've sat there eating breakfast. I'd look over into the record store and see something that I wanted. One time it was a complete set of Woody Guthrie's music. Another time it was Lenny Bruce's works. It's a pretty popular place where locals tend to congregate.
HUEVOS RANCHEROS Most of the time when I go there I have this Mexican style dish.

When it's sunny out they open up the front of the cafe to let a little air get in.
WOODY GUTHRIE FARMERS OMLETTE Another time I went in there I had this Woody Guthrie Vegetarian Omlete. It was pretty good.

Here's Brad mowing the lawn

MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WILLIAM BAILEY AND PART HIS FAMILY in Minnesota around the turn of the century.My great great grandfather is the guy standing on the left in the picture. A better picture of him can be found later on in this blog. I believe he did some work on this house. He was a cabinet maker by trade.

KOREAN RESTURANT I go to this little Korean resturant in the University District once in awhile. I've been interested in all thing Korean for a couple of years now. When I was a kid one of my neighbors was half Korean. His father was in the Korean War and he married a Korean lady and brought her back to the States. Back in those days it was a stigma to be anything but white in that neighborhood. When I was in Vietnam me and a couple other guys came upon a Korean hospital near the South China Sea one time. A Korean doctor showed us around the place. Then in the early 70's I was working in a sawmill in a little town called Arlington way up north from here. There was a guy there who just got divorced from his Korean wife. He was just out the military and we used to talk alittle. He was really freaked out because his wife and her girlfriends would go down to the Puget Sound to collect seaweed and then she'd bring it home and process it. He just couldn't hack all this Korean activity. I was always open to new things and one day I asked him if he knew of a Korean food that would be good to eat. He told me to try kimchee. The next time I went to the grocery store I bought a jar of it. I tried it and I like it and I've been eating it ever since. I don't have it all the time, just once in awhile.
You go in and you give the guy behind the counter your order and then you pay for it, then you go over a get a little glass of barley tea and you sit down and wait til your order is done, and they bring it out.

When ever I go here I always have BEEF BULGOGI. I see they have changed their format. They used to serve about six little bowls of Korean delicacies like, fried tofu, potato made in a Korean way, mung bean sprout salad and many other things that I can't think of at this moment. I see that now they only serve a salad and kimchee along with rice with their meals. Maybe they got a new manager.
Before I left I walked into the bathroom and this is what I found. Rocks in the sink to wash your hands with. I love it. I like those old rustic ways Orientals have of doing things.

WHERE I BLOG This is where I write this blog. I am organized, believe me I am.

HAMBURGERS
I spent most of the day today running around town trying to find a futon. I have a regular bed with box springs. I have a futon that I bought a couple years ago. I bought it before I bought the bed. I have found that one futon isn't high enough. My pillows keep slipping through the gap in the headboard and this has become an annoyance after awhile. I decided that today was the day that I would get another futon. After going to three places I finally found one that I was satisfied with. I brought it home and put it on my bed. It was perfect. It's nice to know that I won't have that problem anymore. When I got home I decided to have something totally different for dinner. I went to the store and bought the fixin's for hamburgers! They were great.

KABUTO GARDEN - SEATTLE I was driving around in a section of town called Skyway in south Seattle when I came acrossed KABUTO PARK. I have known for years that there was a Japanese Garden in south Seattle. I've even tried to find it from addresses that were published in local circulars, but I could never find it. That day in early spring I finally found it. It was a hot day. I pulled up in the parking lot and and got out and started down one of the trails. The park is several acres in size so I didn't see most of it. It is full of waterfalls, flowering trees, hidden clearings, and has a few bridges. It does not have lanterns or Japanese objects like the garden in the Arboretum has. If you like these things then it is a good place to visit and take pictures. I'll have to go there again and take my time going through it, and maybe take a map that tells you what you are seeing. Maybe I can find more things in it. I'm sure it is one of those gardens that you have to see many times to get the full benefit of.
About the most interesting thing about this park was this bridge. There are other bridges here but this one caught my attention.
This is just one of the many waterfalls found in this park.

MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WALTER BAILEY This is my great grandfather Walter Bailey with his wife Lucy.

Today is my brother's birthday. Happy Birthday Ken. Have a good one.