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Seattle-Port Townsend-Whidbey Island

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My dear friend from law school came down from Vancouver, BC with his partner to hang out with Shando and me in Seattle for a few days and we had an amazing time.  Shando had never been to Seattle and he wanted to see some of the Puget Sound areas, including Deception Pass. We had the best guides and were so lucky to make new friends also.  We did get there during a heat wave (and no one in Washington has air conditioning by default).

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Shando got me a great birthday lunch at the Seattle Space Needle, nitrogen-cooled ice cream bowl smoking away:

Deer roaming around Port Townsend, Whidbey Island and the Fish Ladder at the Locks

Art, California

Hayward/East Bay Murals and Street Art

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The East Bay has gotten a ton more murals since I lived here as a kid, but here are two of my favorites.  Very Hollywood and Xanadu-like, right?  The other picture is an art piece where the last working drive-in for the state of California existed, but which is now a group of stores, including a Walmart.  This piece is near the Comcast shop.

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Palm Springs with Shando

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We had a good time enjoying the consistently 90-degree-plus weather for a long weekend.  It was my first time flying into the PS airport.  My good friend George, with the two schipperkes pictured below, let us borrow his car and I crashed at his lovely home one night while Shando was still at his work retreat.  George, Shando, and I are pictured in a booth at Lulu’s Restaurant.  Lucille Ball made an appearance in our album, too.

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Attended See All About It – Vivian Maier’s Newspaper Portraits

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My daughter, who lives in Berkeley, and I were invited by my friend, a son of the late philanthropists, to see this exhibit and attend this event.  We heard from two biographers of Vivian Maier who know about this story of her posthumous fame, mostly through the internet.  She died in 2009 and only now are we appreciating what a prolific and talented photographer she was, despite what many would consider a rather unremarkable life that she led.  This was presented by the Reva and David Logan Gallery of Documentary Photography at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

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