For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: effort.
You have to tolerate mud to be a mountain bike racer in the Pacific Northwest.


For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: effort.
You have to tolerate mud to be a mountain bike racer in the Pacific Northwest.


For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: orchestrate.
Photographs of my father’s boat, Sun Tui, returning to the water after a lot of repair work. I was looking for photos of my children playing violin or viola, but came across these. We had a team to repair the boat and a team to put her back in the water and raise the mast again. All the players play their parts and play together.


Dang motor.

And out and about:


For the Daily Prompt: fact.
This is the second photograph. My daughter has the same expression as the first one. And who is talking to her? That’s the head coach. Her expression and focus does not change.
My daughter raced mountain bikes for her four years of high school. We have a club team. She looks just the same at the start of each race: focused. Concentrating. Ignoring everyone else. And I chose this photograph because of the next one…..
Those aren’t bears! Oh, yes… this is the New Year’s Polar Bear Plunge and these intrepid swimmers are now Polar Bears. The plunge is at noon on Marrowstone Island. A cannon is fired and people jump off the dock and into the water, cold Salish Sound water, in the low fiftys. Brrrr. The ambulance crew stands by and family and friends to witness this transformation into bears for the day.
For the Daily Prompt: sparkle.
A graduation party photograph from two years ago. I love all the older graduating girls listening to the one younger. Doesn’t she sparkle?
For the Weekly Photo Prompt: peek.
My daughter is in the boat pushing off, with her skipper stepping on board.
I came to Bellingham yesterday to visit my daughter and watch the Regatta, http://wwusailing.com/regattas/, Western Washington and five other college teams, in the light snow and sometimes sleet.
The main comment I heard about the sleet was “Oh, good, some wind.”
Taken from shore, Nikon Coolpix P510, 42x zoom.
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