Spring

It is here. There are telltale signs everywhere, for those that care to see. The canada geese hatch their young, and are leading them out on longer and longer forays. The snow peas in the earth outside unfurl and even now climb to the sky, hungrily. In the north, chalk floats in the air among the rocks as the climbers dust off their bodies. Dandelions bloom in their tens of millions, yellow strokes across yards and parks. Vitamin-D deficient people emerge from their homes, squinting up at the sky.

Time passes so quickly. It was my twentieth birthday on Thursday. Unfortunately, I was caught in the depths of a phlegm-filled sinus, from which I just emerged. Today was quite nice, I went for a refreshing two hour kayak on Lake Whatcom, which borders Bellingham to the east. I made the first spring pilgrimage to the world-class climbing destination of Squamish, B.C., about an hour and half north of here, just last weekend. It felt great to stretch the muscles a bit, and to feel some solid, unyielding granite again. I've got a busy schedule coming up; hiking this weekend, kayaking the next, and then Otis is visiting May 22-25th. The lucky guy has no class Thursday or Friday...

Meanwhile, I pray for Obama on a daily basis. Lets just hope that Hillary's business-as-usual politics doom her as they should, and that Obama lives up to some of the hype.

The latest out of the lens: I have a backup of about 6 rolls of film that I am too poor to get scanned, mostly from Kauai but a few random rolls as well. The advantages of digital... I hope to get a place next year with a space for a darkroom.

Old Main, the original building of WWU.

These guys are sprouting up everywhere.

These too.

The Vancouver skyline, on the way to Squamish.

My new friend Brian took this one, that is me on top. Not to be confused with Bryan, the climber who I went to Garfield with.

This is Art climbing, a firefighter in Kirkland and a cool guy. Bryan is the hatted one on the right, and Daniel is spotting left.

More Kauai...

They filmed Jurassic Park on this island.


A cool fern.


This valley is on the north side of the island.


Taro Fields.


Tippie the dog.


Mom.

Kauai et alii

Hello everyone! I am sitting at my kitchen table back in Bellingham. I spent the spring break in Kauai with my family, which was a wonderful vacation. We stayed in a little gilligans island style cabin on the northeast coast, and it was beautiful. Here is some evidence.


The Hawaiian Monk Seal is super endangered, there are only about 35 left in the main Hawaiian Chain.


My aunt Sydney, uncle Rhoul, and cousin Zola were on Kauai at the same time, and it was great to hang out with them. Our cabin was abut 20 yards from this beach.


I got out of the shower one morning and this was the first thing I saw.


This was breakfast on our porch.


This is my grandpa's camera made in 1938. It works great, I just finished my first roll on it.

Free Tibet.

Since 1951, the Chinese occupying forces have killed 1.2 million Tibetans.
Recent protests have been covered a bit by western news outlets, but this is what you don't see. The dead. Why is this not recognized around the world as a genocide?

Sunspots

The quarter is over, I leave for Kauaii in 5 days.

Snowshoeing on Mt. Baker

vist...

www.ecofoot.com

Finally a real ecological footprint calculator that asks realistic questions.
Check it out, you may be surprised by what you read.

Make sure to remember

"A strong mind is essential in Parkour and provides the foundation for the rest of our armour. Our ability to move is dependant on the ability of our minds to tell our bodies what we want to do... and what we can do.

The latter is something that we need to teach ourselves. Only with time and experience will the mind learn what its body is capable of and with practice it will allow its body to do so without interfering with doubt and worry."
- Blane

even though I seek perfection, I wear my scars with pride.

Don't live in fear

Super tuesday! I can only pray for some obama love, hillary frightens me a bit... she seems lacking in foresight and caution, not to mention humility and wisdom. I'm feeling a bit sick, there is a bout of coughing circling western these past few days. Hope everyone is well.