Sunday. Today we take a drive in the direction of the Tri-Cities and the Columbia River. Lunch at Sacajawea State Park and then on to Leslie Groves Park in Richland for dog-walking and bird-and-other-creature watching. With some of the requisite windshield photography in between.
Some of the latest revelations about how Facebook uses your personal data …
Our street, at 6:30pm …
And other sights earlier in the day:
And let’s not forget CRASH, SPLAT, WHACK and many others …
Remember the 1960s Batman TV series? The question might only apply to readers of certain age, but … it turns out that Adam West, the actor who played Batman and his alter-ego Bruce Wayne, originated in Walla Walla. And on his birthday, the city celebrates Adam West Day, which closes with a display of the fabled Bat Signal on the side of the tallest downtown building. It also turns out that there is a prime view of the event from the back bathroom of the building across the way which houses my workspace. So I scouted out some shooting locations in the afternoon, then at 9pm I trundled up and did a few captures.
To give you a little flavor of the old Batman TV action:
And here is more background from the local newspaper:
Adam West Day honors Walla Walla’s native son _ Top Stories _ union-bulletin.com
Today, just documenting where I went, what I saw, what I ate.
At least that’s the view put forward by Anne Quito in this piece.
Over Maple Street this Saturday morning …
And then more or less at ground level, walking downtown:
Group conversation should be limited to four participants. (Or maybe not.) That’s the mathematical and psychology theory outlined in this Quartz piece.