Month: October 2009
Photo Friday: Panorama Shots
I’ve got a terrific new toy, the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000. It’s a 12mp pocket camera, a little tiny thing that, well, it fits in my pocket. I haven’t ditched Nikon D200 SLR by any means, but this little baby does some stuff that my Nikon won’t. It shoots video and, more importantly, goes underwater. I’ve …
Of Time and Guidebooks
Several years ago at a book sale in a small and pretty town in Austria, I bought a stack of Baedeker’s red guidebooks. I have four of these fragile, red cloth bound little volumes. I also bought a Flaxman Hand-Book of English and German Conversation. The Flaxman’s is from 1907, the Baedeker’s are also from …
With Liberty and Justice for All
My possibly shaky understanding of the history of Alki Beach is that the settlers who chose the banks of Puget Sound as their new home envisioned this place as the New New York, that here a city would be built to rival any east coast capitol. Our own Lady Liberty, on the beautifully renovated plaza …