A Taste of the Baltics

Just a reminder that there's life on fstopbentley.blogspot.com, where I've posted a mess of photos from my August trip to Latvia and Lithuania. Not all are as typically Eff-Stoppish as these but I am inordinately fond of patina and crusty walls, as you know.

Kaunas: Floodwater meter

Riga

Behind the Riga Market

Tukums house

Tukums shed door

Daugavpils

Vilnius: Nazi/KGB dungeon wall with frame

Vilnius

Happenings at The Eff-Stop

This is just to say
I have posted the photos
that I was taking
in Riga, Latvia

Forgive me
they were so foreign
and thus out of scope for this blog


Please visit my other one at
http://fstopbentley.blogspot.com/

Hot Weekend

Fireworks stand, Muckleshoot Reservation, Auburn WA

Industry, Mt. Vernon, WA

Crop duster, Burlington, WA

Mexican grocery, Mt. Vernon

Today/Yesteryear, Mt. Vernon

Country road, Skagit County WA

Leftovers

A few abstracts from a brief jaunt to the Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

Kingston ferry dock 

Abandoned Port Angeles oiltanks 

Port Angeles 

Pool, defunct Port Angeles motel

Port Townsend 

Mobile antuique shop, Port Townsend 

Truck panels, Kingston ferry 

Seattle Bon Odori

Last weekend I spent some time flaneuring at this annual Japanese street dance, "in which we honor our ancestors who have passed on, remember and appreciate all they have done for us, and celebrate their ongoing presence in the lives we enjoy today." Quite a spectacle of kimono patterns and more contemporary Asian fashion, with models of all ages. Plus Taiko drumming!

There was also a hall of various arts and crafts, Go players, and ikebana. And I couldn't resist the alley.