The image that struck me first this morning was the tide going out over the base of the radio tower. The water is low when the base begins to show, and I liked the way the sheets of water formed patterns over it. I got my camera out a bit late for the best patterns, because - what can I say? - it's a work day and work interrupted my camera fun. I'll try to get it right another time. It's always different, as the tides' height changes by about an hour each day and the weather and lighting all have an effect. It was cold this morning. You can see a bit of snow on the catwalk in the upper left, although the day was sunny and beautiful . . .
. . . and cold! It was still a little below freezing when I went out on an errand. Here's our front door. There isn't much snow left this morning. There's a bit of black ice. I wonder how long the plants will look green.
They had more snow remaining on the flat concrete next door at the old Englund Marine building.
Here's contrast on the river. The small fishing boat
Marie Kathleen (built in 1966, as I found out), passes the cargo ship
Port Kelang, at anchor. Port Kelang is in Malaysia, but "Kelang" is also the name of the female Malayan tapir at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. I have a lot of photos of her and her half-grown calf from our last visit to Seattle that I want to put online soon. I don't have time today, as we're still busy in the gift shop and I have to find and sort the pix. The only SHIP Kelang I could find online was a
Hanjin Port Kelang, which looks different from this one.
Then something unusual came by - first downriver, then it turned and came back after only a short time. It was a bright red crane on a barge being shoved by a tow boat. Cool. That's the
Port Kelang again on the right. She stayed around for several days and now appears to have moved a bit or maybe moved on up or down the river.
Lee and I had breakfast or brunch at Astoria Coffee House.
This isn't too elegant, but it's a reminder of a breakfast enjoyed - granola, fruit, and creamy yogurt with a decaf extra wet cappuccino.
There are more fishing boats out than I've seen in awhile. This one is so blue. Pretty.
Here they're reeling in the net on the way home to the East Mooring Basin.
We've had a lot of logs this year, but no individual log has come close to matching that monster tree that hung up on the building a year ago January. That was incredible.
It was simply a gorgeously beautiful day on the river.
Toenails. Lee likes to get me a pedicure at A-Nails. It's just across the street, so it's convenient and it's relaxing sitting with my feet in the water and someone working on them. I'd never considered having my nails done, but just before we left for Italy a few years ago, he gave me a certificate. It was fun, but I hadn't especially noticed nails, and I thought the white tips were either a joke or unfinished. Then I thought they looked like animal claws and I began to like them. Forget the fingernails, though, I had them done once and they were all scratched up within an hour (they were the spray-on kind; I didn't realize what was being done; maybe a real manicure would have lasted longer - maybe). I USE my hands! For awhile there, I was having some fun with toenail colors, and now I'm back with the white.
This is just a small tree floating beyond the back deck. The water has settled down. It's so still now, but you know it was stormy in the recent past or the tree would still be standing somewhere in Washington or Oregon, or maybe even Idaho. I love the colors.
