She opened the door, and BOO!

It pains me to admit this – I’m a total Halloween cop out this year. I LOVE to dress up but it just didn’t come together for ’08. I’m dressed as blackmail (black shirt with a stamp on it). And my bra strap is showing in this picture, so I guess I’m skanky blackmail. But I guess blackmail in and of itself is kinda skanky, so I'll go with it. I’ve had great costumes in the past – Rainbow Brite, Wonder Woman, Dolly Parton, a Ghostbuster, various characters from Rocky Horror. This is so embarrassing.

Oh Canada

While on my WA trip, I stepped foot in Canada for the first time.

Put your right foot in...Canada. Put your left foot in...the USA.

Here you have the Peace Arch on the US/Canadian Border.

Visit my Oh Canada photo set on Flickr for more photos.

Washington (State, not George, not D.C.)

I visited gorgeous Blaine, WA Oct 11-14.The WA shore is quite different from our white sandy shore. Ouch.

While in WA, I stayed at the Semiahmoo Resort. The grounds were interesting to explore. And this, my friends, is Mt. Baker, as viewed from the resort. Mt. Baker stays snowy year-round.

By the way, I was in WA for an AUBER conference. Here we sit on a cruise through the San Juan Islands on the only rainy day of the entire trip! (Left to right: Andy (NC), David (FL), Me, Maile (AZ), and Mrs. Chang (AL)). (Guest photographer, Semoon Chang.)

Visit my Blaine, WA photo set on Flickr for more Washington photos.

Apologetics

Why have I not updated my photo blog since Aug 13? My life hasn’t been that boring. Almost, but not quite. Please accept this bucket of Johnny Jump Ups as a token of my apology. People give apology flowers, right? I’ve only received flowers 3 times in my life – once for my 16th birthday, once from a client for a bang up job on a project, and once from a guy I was dating because I told him to take the easy out and give me flowers for Valentine’s Day instead of his usual random item that made me want to punch him. Anywho, I’ll be posting several times over this weekend on the happenings of my twenty-seventh year up to this point. Okay bye.