SSCC Arboretum

There is a wonderful arboretum at South Seattle Community College and Thursday, after I met with the unemployment folks down there (yup, still no job) my trusty Canon 30-D and I went over to take pictures. The sun was out and it was a great place to wander around and practice. Got a few good pictures but of course the joy of digital cameras means you can take many many pics and not worry about the cost of developing them !! I had fun with Photoshop too on some of them afterwards.

And yes, I'm still looking for a job. Me and a few hundred's of others.

If you want to see all my pictures from the arboretum, here they are: (If you want to slow it down or stop it, hover your mouse over the picture and the controls will show and you can change the speed) Also, if you want to see the pictures in a larger size, just double click on one of them and you'll go to the album site.

Bread and Flowers

No - not flour! That was in the last post...this is "flowers" as in crocuses (crocii? ) that are blooming in our front yard. I wandered out with my 30D and tried to get some pictures of the first flowers to bloom... and then I got "lost" in Photoshop and voila...several minutes later... there are pictures...had to post them just to see how they look and for some "cheerfulness" today. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as nice. If the weather is good, I'll take my camera along to my meeting and then go across campus to the arboretum again and take some pictures. Without dog or husband. Dog is staying home, husband will be in class.

Beer Bread

OK - today was sunny, warmish, just a gorgeous spring day in Seattle. So did we go for a walk? No. I worked on some files for my appointment with the unemployment dept tomorrow - going to talk about getting approved for training so that I can still collect unemployment but don't have to look for a job. Not sure how that will go but I got my paperwork in order. Also sent my resume out to 3 places.

Then I baked bread. It's a great thing to do to work off frustration - so I used a great recipe for Beer Rye bread...makes four round loaves and includes 3 C of beer (used ESB Ale) and also molasses, orange zest, caraway seeds, etc. Sure makes the house smell good. It's an easy recipe although you do have to be prepared for it since you need beer and caraway seeds...which are not always in the cupboard. But today they were.... at some point in the day I thought maybe I should just have drunk the beer instead of putting it in the bread.!!

Not much else happening around here. Had a great walk at the SSCC Arboretum yesterday after we went to Rockler's to get a wood "medallion" for the back of my rocker. We had Levi along and he really enjoyed the arboretum....wow, so many things to smell and dig... he was in doggy heaven. It's really a nice spot and just the right size - not so big that you get lost or exhausted or overloaded with what you are seeing. Gene is taking a Conifer class at SSCC so he was using the time to identify the trees and learn what more of them are. It was fun.

OK - bread is cool enough to cut and taste now!!