Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Year in Pictures in Review: Part 1 (April Through July)

Back in March, I started this blog because I so loved the neighborhood photo essays in Chuck B.'s Whoreticulture blog. Every day I'd show my admiration through tipsy responses to his posts about Bernal Heights in San Francisco, and soon I decided my flattery needed to be even more sincere, so I ripped off his blog and started this one.

In fact, this very post is based on an idea I stole from him.

MARCH

This was before I started uploading my photos to Flickr, so the pictures all look like crap. I won't bother reposting any of them here. However, I'll reprint my winning entry from a dirty limerick contest at a gay St. Patrick's Day birthday party I attended that month:

Our friend Sonny's exceedingly hot
The boys they all like him a lot
And the girls, how they sigh
With a tear in their eye
When they find out he doesn't like twat

APRIL

April was the month that I started taking lots of pictures of Georgetown.

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April was also the month that I started stalking Ciscoe Morris. This is not really true. I just like taking pictures of his planting strip.

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This is not a particularly good or interesting photo, but it features the plant genus that I have been obsessed with this year. Whenever I see it in bloom, I'm stunned by just how blue it is. Ceanothus!

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MAY

This month it seems like I did nothing but take pictures of the darling buds of May.

Joy Creek Nursery in Scappoose, Oregon.

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My yard.

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And Ciscoe's yard, of course.

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Over Memorial Day weekend, we visited Rich Art's yard in Centralia.

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JUNE

In June, the Georgetown dump proposal was killed.

I took more pictures Ciscoe's yard.

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Beacon Hill held its first garden walk.

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And Georgetown had a carnival.

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JULY

July was a month of firsts.

I learned how to use the closeup button on my point-and-shoot.

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I visited Hartstene Island and spent over $30 on a bottle of wine.

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I toured the Rainier Cold Storage Building.

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We built a handsome little fence.

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And we went to Toronto for no good reason.

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1 comment:

lisa said...

Hi! I mostly lurk your blog, but I wanted to say how much I enjoy it! For a "ripped off" idea, you did a great job making it your own! Happy New Year!