More Stuff From the last 7 days...

He's growing!  A few firsts this week - first finger-nail clipping, first few clothing items that he no longer fits into, first little stuffed-animal friend.  Also 1 new video (see the bottom of this post).  Click here to go to All of the pics...


Look what the Easter bunny brought us...






Brennan's first "friend" - we call him "Blue" and he's a cute little hippo for sure





Mommy got a glider chair!



He likes to sleep with Bapa

Flowers, Bham and Semiahmoo

What?  You were expecting something else?  It's just what it says; pictures of flowers, some more shots from around Bellingham, and some shots from a short trip to Semiahmoo.  Enjoy!
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Our Fair City

If you don't make it out, much, shame, shame. There is so much beauty to be seen in Bellingham. All of these pictures were taken within a 1 square mile block in downtown Bellingham.  I simply parked my car and started walking.  To see all of the pictures, click here.

February Snow

Who would have thunk it?  Snow in February!  See the pictures here... 

Just a quick post

Straight to the pictures...

Dad, Julie and I with a day in Fairhaven. I took more city/architecture type shots...plus me, dinking around.

 

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Our Fair City

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I love Bellingham; today's pictures show a couple of the reasons why;

1) Nature: No matter where you are in Bellingham, you are only minutes, sometimes seconds away from stepping foot into a beautiful natural paradise.  Today's nature pictures are courtesy of Stimpson Reserve, where the lake has frozen over producing a number of cool effects.  And note: that's not snow on the ground; it's frost and ice.

2) Downtown: I love downtown for alot of reasons, one of which are all the cool and colorful buildings to look at.  I have shot a few of them and you can see them in this other blog post.  Here's a few more...


Our area also has a number of micro-climates which help to contribute to the interesting variety of pictures you'll see. For example, the official readings for B'ham are always taken at the airport. However, the airport is right in the path of the Fraser River outflow which means it's always windier and colder there. Sudden Valley has it's own climate (which is where Stimpson is) and then there's the Chukanut's which also have their own. Makes for a lot of variety. Today it was bitterly cold at Stimpson (Sudden Valley) as witnessed by the large amount of frost and ice.

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January Flooding - Pictures and Video

All I can say is, wow.  The latest from Bellingham?  Lake Whatcom is getting too high so they opened the flood gates at 2:00 PM today; that means that Whatcom Creek and Whatcom Falls are running extremely high.  I managed a few pictures.

First: Look carefully at the two pictures of Whatcom Falls.  One was taken 3 weeks ago, the other today.  Click on the pictures to see them full frame.  Notice on the snow picture, the rocks to the left of the Falls - in the 2nd photo, completely gone.  Also quite a bit more spray!

Second, after you do that, visit my website (click here) and see the video I took for the full effect of Whatcom Falls.  Turn the volume up.  It's a LOT of water.

December Snow: Night Shots

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Click here for another batch of snow pictures from earlier

Hey all: here are some night shots from the snow up here!  Sure is pretty; and getting colder again.  Here's three to whet your appetite!  Click on the link above to see the rest of 'em!

 

  

Big set of snow pictures

Click here to go straight to the pictures; (what, you don't like my writing?)

Not lot to say; highlights of our weather?  Low temperature was this morning at my house of 8 degrees (of course, that was at about 8:15 AM, so it might have been colder before that).  We topped out at 9+ inches of snow.  It is beautiful, but cold.  Enjoy!


(The Holly is out in Full Force right now)


(Our cul-de-sac)

And Whatcom Falls Park;









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Snow part II

The big "dump" - I woke up very disappointed, thinking our weather-men had blown it (again) but Oh me of little faith: it started snowing in earnest about 10:00 and didn't really stop until about 4:00.  Here's just a few pic's from the day;

Weather

I love the snow...actually, I love any type of unusual weather; storms, wind, hard rain, sleet, hail, but my favorite, is severe cold and snow.  Don't know why; as long as I can remember I've always loved the snow.  My mom always said it was because it snowed on the day I was born.  I'm not sure about that, but it's as good a reason as any.  At any rate, I've had a blast watching all this Bellingham snow and have even developed a reputation as an amateur weather hound; (not sure if it's a good rep or a bad one).  At any rate, I thought I'd share my favorite weather websites.

1) komonews.com/weather - I love this website because they do a lengthy write-up about the weather and usually include all the details I love to read about.

2) national weather service, Bellingham - I love this site because you get accurate forecasts, especially short term.  You also get in bright bold red letters, any warnings or special weather statements (like, right now, as I write, there is a Winter Storm Warning for Bellingham).

3) intellicast radar - When weather is happening, I go to this radar loop - my brother-in-law who is a pilot put me onto this site as a good one for seeing what's actually happening; (blue for snow, red for mix, green for rain).

4) accuweather, Bellingham - I just found this site and love it for long range forecasting, as in 15 days or so.  Accuweather actually had this arctic blast predicted about 10-11 days before it actually happened.  Keep in mind though, long range forecasting is very iffy, especially in the NW.

5) weatherbug.com is fun too, but I'm not sure it's very accurate.  Stay with the local guys for the most accuracy - a couple more are kirotv.com/weather and king5tv.com/weather, both Seattle based but still have good reports on Bellingham.

So there you go!  Those are my favorite 4 weather websites.  Got any suggestions?

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Snow Pictures 2008...

Straight to the pictures (lame)

Ok, nothing big to write home about here, but have gotten the camera out a few times the past couple of days.  Here's 3 of them...(click here to see the rest)

A Brilliant Bellingham Sky

Straight to the pictures here;

So, it's been awhile since I've blogged.  To be honest, I haven't felt like it and haven't had anything to write about.  That changed today.  I brought my camera to work on the off chance of seeing something.  As I pulled into the parking lot for work this morning, I found some brilliant red "berry looking" type things (sorry, I don't know plants).  They were glistening in the morning sun.  The best was yet to come...

Thursday is my "late night" day of the week where we have our music rehearsal.  I usually leave around 4:30 to get dinner and am back to the church by 5:30.  As I left for dinner today, I saw the most brilliant sunset of the year by far - I was both running back for my camera, kicking myself for not leaving 10 minutes earlier, and praising God that I actually caught the part of the sunset that I did catch.  I pulled of the side of the road and snapped a bunch of pictures.  Truth be told, the pictures are all totally straight off the camer, not "touched up" in any way.  Notice how the colors change as the sunset went on.  Enjoy (and check out the rest of the pictures here).

Worth the Wait

So on Monday, Julie and I are leaving the house and driving on Electric when we pass by the familiar Eagle's nest on the left.  Sure enough, there was an Eagle up there.  We decide to turn around and go get my camera.  We rush back to the house, grab the camera, and sure enough, the Eagle is still there.  I turn the camera on and doh!  No memory card in the camera.  Rush back to the house one more time to grab the card, and get back to the nest...only this time, no bird.  Gone.  Not too bad; it was a cloudy day anyways.

Fast forward to Wednesday morning and I have an early morning meeting.  I decide to throw the camera in the car just in case.  Meeting gets done, sun is out, I swing by the nest and wouldn't you know it, the Eagle is there.  I managed to hike down a little towards the nest and waited for him to show...he did. Click on the pictures to see them larger size.