Category Archives: Photos

The Presence of Photography

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Skip Walter

Stop the coup in the United States! Vote! Resist! Persist! As part of striving to be a traveler rather than a tourist and wanting to be awake to the wonders of life as I walk this planet, I take photographs to aid … Continue reading →

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Walking in the Woods on Bainbridge Island

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Skip Walter

Stop the coup in the United States! Vote! Resist! Persist! I keep my sanity in this crazy world by trying to walk in the woods on Bainbridge Island every non-rainy day. I love the immersion in the deep greens on my walk … Continue reading →

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Alive Day – April 7

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Skip Walter

Stop the coup in the United States! Vote! Resist! Persist! Every year on April 7th I celebrate my Alive Day. April 7th in 2018 is the day I should have died in an auto accident on I-90 east of Seattle. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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The Many Colors of Sunrise on Puget Sound

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Skip Walter

Stop the coup in the United States! Vote! Resist! Persist! We are blessed with an eastward facing home that looks over the Puget Sound towards Seattle. As the earth turns, each morning I see the sun move on its seasonal journey venturing … Continue reading →

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Courting by Flute

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Skip Walter

Stop the coup in the United States! Vote! Resist! Persist! After taking several photos of Horseshoe Bend near Page, AZ, I was ready for a craft beer. Consulting Google Maps I found that Grand Canyon Brewery had a restaurant nearby. I settled … Continue reading →

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Why I/We Travel

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Skip Walter

Covid Deaths in U.S.:  1,137,057   Get Vaccinated! Stop the War in Ukraine! My wife and I recently spent five weeks travelling through Portugal and Spain. One of our lifelong marriage goals is to travel extensively when we finally retired. Because of … Continue reading →

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Wildlife in the San Juan Islands

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Skip Walter

We’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years and have never been to the San Juan Islands.  We remedied that over the Fourth of July weekend, when our newest inlaws, the Shellys, invited us to spend a couple … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to the iPad (3?)

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Skip Walter

Technology envy is a dangerous thing. My iPad 3 (sorry Apple, I have to distinguish it somehow from the previous two iPads that I have) arrived this morning. It seems I am not the only one that is having a … Continue reading →

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Everything Old is New Again

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Skip Walter

I live for good questions which cause me to stand back and have to think and reflect. While attending Professor David Socha’s UW Bothell CSS 572 course on Evidence Based Design, during a break David asked me to compare and contrast … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Day at Duke University

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Skip Walter

What a quick way to drop away forty years of my life as I revisited Duke University this week.  As I walked around the quadrangles, so many memories from my four years as an undergraduate came flooding back.  Thoughts I … Continue reading →

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