New moon on Queen Anne hill

December, night of the new moon,contemplating, meditating,

 the moon so close.

From this hill

I watch it wax and wane.

I change and evolve,

create and ascend

as the moon wax and wane.

.....and connect.

 

 

Fading light...Fading color..

Fading light...
But
The feeling of resurgence
Here in the park.

Ninja wood stove

Our Ninja wood stove. Love cool weather!

K+K's Stairway Walk #6 (West Seattle)

Pigeon Point stairs in West Seattle We started at Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail where the big dragonfly structure is ( looks a bit like one of the Miyazaki movie characters) .Then, in the woods, there i...s a very interesting bridge called “Salmon-Bone Bridge”. The trail continues through the quiet. The stairs go up from there to the Pigeon Point neighborhood. After walking up 274 steps, you can enjoy a unique and kind of cute neighborhood with a view.

 

 

 

K+K's Stairway Walk #5 (Golden Gardens Beach)

Golden Gardens Beach Stairs. Park the car at 85th street and the stairs go down through the woods to the beach. These stairs somehow remind me of a Japanese shrine visit. It was a holy and sacred feeling.... After you go down the stairs you can enjoy the beach. It was a gorgeous, sunny day. I found a pink bench on a dune and sat a little while. It was a bit like a fantasy – a contemporary short story-like feeling. After the challenging 272 steps up to the top, we had some good coffee at Café Fiore, situated at the stairs’ starting point.

 

 

 

Summer remains a bit, but air is cool...

by KL

K+K's stairway walk #4 (Cedar Park/Lake Forest Park)

Cedar Park stairway in Lake Forest Park. We decided to go to stairways near beaches or lakes during September since fall is coming. This walk starts from a quiet residential area and it connects to the Burke-Gilman Trail. We didn’t have time to complete the trail part today, but we made it up-and down all 275 stairs!!

End of Summer 2013

Good-bye Summer 2013

 

 

At a beach Park with family

 

 

K +K's Seattle stairway city walk #3

. In our guidebook I found a couple of nice beach parks in Burien, and one became one of my favorite: Eagle Landing Park! The stairs to the beach are quite steep but there is ...a railing .The forest provided us a nice canopy and the view of the shore from the stairs was enjoyable. If you go on this walk, remember: after enjoying the beach you need to go back up the 289 steps to get back to the parking ! 388 steps completed (from 3,611 total steps)

K+K's Seattle stairway city walk #2.

 

 We are discovering so many interesting places we have never been

(even though Ken grew up here).

Can you believe that we are in the middle of the city in these pictures?

We were in the upper Queen Anne!! (near Taylor Ave.)

 

 

K+K's Seattle Stairway Walk #1

Inspired by the book "Seattle Stairway Walks" (by J & C Jaramillo), Ken and I started our up-and-down city walk. The twenty-one walks around Seattle neighborhoods are introduced in the book with the chart of mileage and the number of steps. Day #1, we walked Solstice Park in Alki. Just 70 steps from our goal of 6,311 total (from the book).

 

 

No kids home???

My youngest is excitedly preparing his new (and first) apartment room.

 It is within the city but…

I don’t know how long dose it take for me to get used to the life without kids home.....

 

 

Fuchsia

Fuchsia fuchsia, Pink and purple
By the window, Pink and purple
Summer evening sky, Pink and purple

Queen Anne's Lace

 

 Both Anne, Queen of Great Britain,

and her great grandmother Anne of Denmark

are taken to be the Queen Anne for which the plant is named

Sumi Kumi Works

My Sumi painting website  "Sumi Kumi Works"  is launched!

The "Shrinking Mama"

 

My illustration of the L family in 1995.

 

Two boys have grown and grown vertically. Now they both are much taller than their Mama,

or is Mama shrinking?

 

The "Shrinking Mama" is shrinking even more... E will be 21 tomorrow. R will be 19 soon. 

Kumiko's sumi paintings on Parabola

Kumiko Lawrence’s sumi-paintings are featured in the summer 2013 issue of the magazine Parabola together with a Mahabharata-based short story by Kenneth E Lawrence . Thank you all for making this possible.

Sakura!

35years....

I have known her name since I was a teenager. She is a friend of my friend K. I have heard about her so many times, but I haven’t had a chance to meet her for 35 years. She happened to visit Seattle, and we met for the very first time today.... It would have been much nicer if K could join us today, but K passed away last December after a long battle with cancer. Two middle-aged women (with tears in our eyes) finally got together through K. It was an amazing day.See More

Great achivement! E!

 

My older son successfully finished his freshman year at a Japanese college.

 ( all in Japanese!!).

 I'm proud of him!

Happy Valentines Day!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Iyashi fair sign

Kumi made her "calligraphy-ish art (sumi)" for the Seattle Healing Fair sign.

 Thank you for letting me do this!

Tiny Spring

Grey monotone rainy day
Winter is still here.....but
A touch of spring is sure here too

Kumi's art on display ( SBCC)

Kumi's art is on display at South Bellevue Community Center.

 One of the series "Atsumori", a samurai story from one of the Noh dramas.

Happy New Year 2013!

明けましておめでとうございます。

皆様よいお年をおすごしくださいませ。