WildOats

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything here. I guess I haven’t gotten my stride back since my move out here. For the longest time the weather was just horrible. But now it’s starting to get better, so I guess I might be able to take some more pictures. I’m not sure if it’s an east coast-west coast thing, or a warm weather-cold weather thing or what. But I’m not too inspired to shoot much out here. Nothing has been grabbing my attention at all.

But I’ll try to start making more of an effort to go out and shoot more. The other day I was out walking by the water. I did notice one thing that kinda caught my attention for a bit. Over by the water there were these rocks and boulders. So I walked over there to check it out. Some rocks with moss on them. Some small rocks, then bigger ones. Nothing to spectacular. I was doing my best to get a nice composition of the rocks, but nothing was working out.

I continued on my walk. A little further down I saw this rock formation. I guess someone had piled some rocks, one on top of another. It reminded me of those formations that supposedly happened on their own. I forget what they are called. But they’re supposed to be some mystical/other wordly odd things. Anyway here’s what I saw. I caught this using my iPhone, so the quality is probably not the best.

Well, does it give you some mystical type feeling or what?

Ok ok, it’s been about a week now since my last post. No one has said anything about my ’space needle’ picture, so I guess it’s time I told ya more about it. Basically it’s not a picture of the real space needle.

While out walking, I passed by this empty plot of land. I guess they’ll building something on it soon. But anyway, in the corner of the plot, someone had put this replica of the space needle. It was just a bunch of spare parts I guess, but they did a good job of it. I thought it was a riot when I saw it. That’s when I started thinking about if someone were to take a pic of it, would people be fooled into thinking it was the real deal.

So with that I couldn’t resist. I only had access to an iPhone, so I made due with it, and took the shot. I got down low, to give it that I’m small compared to this thing view. I still had to crop the picture a bit to remove some stray parts out,  and then I posted it here.

Here’s another pic of the scene, but in this one you get a much better idea of what this thing actually looks like. So anyway, was I able to fool ya?

Well it’s finally starting to warm up here in Seattle. The past 2 weeks or so the temperature has been in the 70’s and sometimes (although very quickly fleeting) into the 80’s. All I can say is….it’s about time. It’s been so cold and so dark and so rainy for soooo long. I’m really happy that spring/summer are coming.

With the improving weather, I’ve been able to spend some time outside, and start to see some of the sights here in Seattle. Which I’m glad about, because till now, I’ve been pretty much hanging out in the apt.

The other evening I was out walking and came across something that immediately makes you think….Seattle. What’s the one thing, when you see it….makes you say Seattle? Well for me it’s probably the space needle. Seems to be a big deal here in Seattle.

So while I was out walking I saw this. Luckily I had an iPhone with me, otherwise I would have missed this shot. If the photo looks a little sub par, it’s cause it was taken with a camera phone.

Anyway, I did the best I could with what I had. It’s not as big as you’d expect from the pics you see. It also looks like it’s fallen into a bit of disrepair. But anyway, what do you think?