Finally - Some Fun!

Yesterday - after sitting around all morning waiting for a guy to come by to look at Rick's motorcycle windshield he was selling on Craigslist and doing some accumulated junk sorting in the meantime - we finally went out and did something fun. Something that we enjoy doing together and that kinda brought us together to begin with.

Rick started talking about lunch and I suggested that whatever we ate we should take it somewhere outside and have a makeshift picnic and photo session. I could only come up with Saltwater Park, I guess I wanted to see the Sound (I thought you heard a sound?). But Saltwater is ugly. So Rick got the idea and came up with a better place to go - the Ruston area on Commencement Bay in Tacoma.

It was a very pretty, breezy, sunny day when we left. There were old dilapidated piers, parks, flowers, birds, barnacle-encrusted rocks. Lotsa photo opps. So we found a place that sold sandwiches and beer and grabbed both and headed back to the water.

We found a spot to sit just off the walkway that follows the waterfront, on the rocks, outta view (so we could drink our beers) and enjoyed our sandwiches under the watchful eye of a seagull. We got what shots we could right there, mostly birds and long view shots of Tacoma. Then we drove back down the road to check out some of those dilapidated piers. I spotted a pretty knoll with trees and bluebells so we stopped and I went and got a bunch of shots of that knoll. Not too many of them came out, that's something I still have to learn - the metering for those extreme dark and light pictures. While we were walking in that area it started to sprinkle.

We got back in the car and parked right next to one of those piers and it was raining pretty good, we saw it coming. But, being spring, we knew that we could most likely wait it out. So we sat in the car and it eventually POURED! We could see the rain letting up and some brightness from the direction the weather was coming from. It eventually slowed to just sprinkling again.

So we hopped out and quickly got some shots of that pier. It was still raining so we had to make it quick. But we got some nice stuff.

On the way out a little further we saw a fishing dock and decided to check it out as well. I talked to a couple fishers to see how the fishing was doing. They hadn't caught anything nor had they ever fished there before. But just as we were leaving one of them got a bite and ended up pulling up a 8 - 10" bullhead. Ugly little fish!

On the way back Rick spotted a little View Park. Not much of a view, just the Port of Tacoma. The park itself had some nice offerings though. And while we were there someone else pulled up - in another red Neon! We decided that the park should be called "Red Neon Park" instead.

We got back to Rick's and got to do our show and tell. That's where we upload our pix to our 'puters and sit there and compare and critique. We both got some pretty interesting stuff. It sure was nice to get out and play again, been a while.