Riley Mowing Dirt

I thought I’d taught this boy better. It’s the grass that needs mowed, not the dirt!

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Valley West

It amazes me sometimes, that I can drive a couple miles up the road from the house, and get shots like this. Took these twenty minutes ago…

Here’s some more:

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FKScan

I’ve been working this code for some time now, and I think it’s gotten pretty cool.

FKScan is an app I developed a while ago, that grabs the most current photos uploaded to Flickr, continuously, and shows them as thumbnails.

As I was developing this blog, I started using the Flickr API to display photos and videos using my newly designed Photoset and Photo viewers, based on the Bus Driver Jim domain.

Today it all came together. Everything has been moved under the FKScan domain, and I’ve added a Flickr video viewer.

Flickr considers videos uploaded to their site as long photographs. I consider them videos, and I’ve figured out how to discern between the two. Thus, when you click on a thumbnail, the code opens a photo viewer, or a video viewer, based on the type.

The PhotoSet Viewer shows information about the selected set, and hi-lites video content in yellow. When you launch the Photo Viewer, or the Video Viewer, information about that entity is available by right-clicking, or selecting the Info button.

So, here’s how it works:
  • Launch FKScan.
  • Press the Spacebar. (Or right click your mouse…)
  • Let the thumbnails scroll until you see something interesting, and then click on it.
  • The PhotoSet Viewer for the owner of that thumbnail will be opened.
  • You can expand the photo stream incrementally, or present the photos within a set, by clicking on the set thumbnail or the description.
  • Click the S in the upper right corner of a set box to launch the Flickr Slide Show.
  • When you click on any photo or video, the appropriate viewer will be opened.
  • Enjoy!
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Water Taxi

Before I moved to the Rockies, I was a supervisor for a transportation company in Seattle. One of our services was to link up with the Water Taxi, which brought people from Pier 50 in Seattle, to Seacrest Park in West Seattle.

When the boat arrived, our buses would be waiting to take people around Alki point, and then bring them back for the return trip to Seattle.

This was a fun route in the summer and when a driver called off, I got to drive it.

Here’s some photos I took back then, of the Water Taxi coming into Seacrest Park:

SlideShow (Water Taxi)

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The Craft Lab

We used to have this really nice guest bedroom. It had this great bunk bed made out of logs, in keeping with the fact that we live in a log home. The bed was initially in the front bedroom, but on the day we moved in, Riley moved the bed into the back bedroom and my office was born, as was the guest bedroom.

Somewhere along the line Steph realized we never had any guests, and she was envious of my office, so she took the room over for her crafts. She’s been working hard lately to clean it out, and here’s the result :-)


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Secret Beach

The Secret Beach is a tradition of mine that started back in the late sixties. It’s a beach I discovered one day rolling down the coast highway south of Carmel, CA. on a road trip with a girlfriend that I can’t even remember her name.

It’s under the Mal Paso Creek bridge, west of Clint Eastwoods ranch. I took Riley and Steph down there on our California vacation several years ago. There was a drug cave on the beach that we kind of disrupted, but that’s another story…

Here are some paintings of the beach, that I whipped up this evening:

SlideShow (Secret Beach)

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Tank Plants

I took the shot to the left on June 12th, and the one on the right this weekend. Steph planted those shrubs by the propane tank, when it was installed a few years ago.

They survived four feet of snow and really took off this summer!

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