Sumie again!

I realize now that my father was the one who influenced me the most: what I have become, what I love, what I do for my hobbies. My father loved choral classic music and bought tons of records. I started singing with choirs when I was in hi...gh school and I still do. He enjoyed oil painting. I have been painting various media since I was 1 year old and i still do.

The artist side of me was a bit dormant until recently, but I would like to start again.

 

 

Standing the side of Love-Sakura

Standing the side of a Sakura tree and LOVE.

 I am grateful that I can see Sakura again this year.

 

 

Another beautiful sunny day

Another beautiful sunny day.
This sunshine is a special gift.

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.....