Seattle's Duck Dodge

Recently it was Duck Dodge night on Lake Union in Seattle. It's not so much a race, it's more like a parade of boats trying to keep from running into each other. It's held on Tuesday evenings during the summer. I took these sunset shots looking down on Lake Union towards the ship canal. By the time the sun had set, most of the sailors were finished and had rafted their boats together to celebrate the evening with a cold one. It days like these that I wish I owned a sailboat.

2009 Fremont Solstice Parade

Being that I'm a photojournalist and also the fact that I've never been to the Fremont Solstice parade in 25 years of living in Seattle, I decided it was time I should go. It's a celebration of the Summer Solstice and artistic free spirits. Most of the parade revolves around the naked bicycle riders, and goodness knows there were a lot of them. Most of those photos can 't be posted on this blog. But it's just a very fun event that that the city of Seattle allows to go on year after year. They have tried to stop the naked bicycle riding in past years, but that was futile. So for those daring young cyclists on their riding machines... Let your freak-flag-fly.
I have to mention that those beautiful white dresses in the last photo were made entirely of paper. No idea how they were made, but they were fabulous!

Seattle Summer Evening

It was one of those evenings here in Seattle that reminds us why we all live here. I went down to Jim and Roxanne Dunn's boat on Lake Union yesterday. Jim and I made a batch of his honey amber ale in the afternoon. Then I was invited to stay for a feast cooked up by Roxanne for a article she is writing for a magazine. I took some photos for the story and then later, as the evening was coming to an end, I snapped this photo of the Seattle skyline as the sun set. The feast included crab, mussels, clams, sausage, potatos and corn, all cooked up in one big pot. It was so much fun and just an amazing dinner.