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Approach to Seattle from Ferry across Puget Sound IMG_2777
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Bauhaus Coffee House - Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus designer, in Ballard, Seattle IMG_2805
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Bruce takes a last look before leaving KGW Portland, Oregon
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Bruce with Three Otters Sculpture by Georgia Gerber in Port Townsend at the entrance to Puget Sound
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Edward R Murrow Quote from KGW; the legendary journalist Murrow grew up in Washington State
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Fish Ladder for migrating salmon. it connects Puget Sound with Lake Union for the spawning fish. the locks next to it raise / lower boats / ships where the saltwater meets the freshwater. IMG_2779
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge from the train to / from Portland, Oregon. this is the only bridge over Puget Sound
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Port Townsend has a great historic downtown
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black-tailed deer in a yard in Port Townsend; the town is on a peninsula where Puget Sounds meets the ocean and has state parks on both sides.
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Port Townsend, Washington
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VIDEO of migrating salmon in the fish ladders between Puget Sound and Lake Union
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hard-to-see but harbour seals are here as we watched them hunting the migrating salmon. this is just before the fish ladder and ship locks. the English Gardens at top of photo.
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with harbour seals behind me fishing for the migrating salmon here I am with a harbour seal pup. the English Gardens are beyond the channel which is near the locks between the Sound and Lake Union; i'm wearing my new rodents t-shirt.
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day lilies are one of Seattle and Washington's summer flowers that are everywhere.
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our card-playing group eats here at the Totem House Ballard, Seattle after every afternoon of games
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Ballard , Seattle
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Ballard, a cool neighborhood in Seattle
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the Scandinavian Memorial in Ballard, a Seattle neighborhood we visit often for cards, eating, shopping, English Gardens, the locks and channel, and the Nordic Museum.
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KGW News Set Panorama 2016 Portland, Oregon
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Lighthouse Port Townsend has 3 state parks near / around it that we visited.
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (1)
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (5)
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (9)
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (10) Prime Timers had a daytrip here with an alpine picnic.
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (12)
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (13)
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (15)
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Mt Rainier National Park, lots of chipmunks but they're hard to get to stay still to photograph ! 8-2016 (17)
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 (18)
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Mt Rainier National Park 8-2016 ; we were at 6K feet in the Sunrise area of the park.(20)
