3 January 2013: SeaTac toward Heathrow via SanFran

THURSDAY

Mount Rainier is visible as we head to SeaTac Airport.

Time table. Security line.

Taxing out to the runway: The Olympic Mountains. Mount Rainier.

Can't get enough of Mount Rainier.

Mount Adams. Smaller peaks of the Cascade Mountains.

Approaching San Francisco.

Landing at San Francisco International Airport.

A collection of Indian Deities in Stone, on borrow from the Asian Art Museum, lined the terminal.

Kioskes... Best Buy Express and Proactiv.

My flight posted with an hour and half delay. Airport workers waiting at gate G94 for my plane to arrive.

Finally my plane pulls into the gate.

People gathering at the gate. At 6:42pm, the plane finally begins the journey east to London Heathrow.

Snack: pretzels and water. Dinner: pasta, salad, and roll.

2 January 2013: Mountains and Water

WEDNESDAY

The Olympic Mountains from Ballard.

The part of the Fremont Cut. The mural under Aurora.

Gas Works Park on a clear, sunny day.

 A runner, a frozen puddle, and firework debris from New Year's.

 Through the Gas Works: Floating houses. The Space Needle.

Edmonds ferry and the Olympic Mountains. Mount Baker (Cascade Mountains) from Brackett's Landing.

Rocks and the ferry. Fish carcass and the train. 

Cars waiting to board the ferry.

Olympics and Puget Sound. Edmonds Marina.

1 January 2013: Icy morning to the start the new year

TUESDAY

At nine in the morning, it was 28°F. Frost on the roof.

Frost on the deck railing.

31 December 2012

MONDAY

45th and Roosevelt. Silver bells on the Stanford building in the U-District.

Prospective students and their parents getting a tour of the campus.

Back to Suzzallo Library to do some research.

The Olympic Mountains in Edmonds.

Bringing in the new year by watching the Needle "blow up."