Chalk girl's string


photo by Ballard Avenue

Patience, dears...

Chalk girl


photo by Ballard Avenue

It's going to take three days to finish this story.

What is wrong with this picture?


photo by Ballard Avenue

Where are the dandelions? Who has a yard without dandelions? Someone you don't really want to know, that's for sure.

Friday cat: Elliott


photo by Ballard Avenue

Karen is working in Tanzania for a few weeks so we're looking after her cats. After a few days of our care, Elliott looks out the door wondering when the hell is Mom coming home.

The patient didn't survive the operation


photo by Ballard Avenue

It started out as a minor pruning but they went a bit overboard trying to achieve perfect symmetry.

Bob's Ballard TV


photo by Ballard Avenue

Ballard watched Ed Sullivan on Bob's TVs, and when the tubes overheated and smoked out the house, Bob would get in his truck and race to the rescue. After all, you didn't want to miss the guy with the spinning plates who came on after Vic Damone.

Tacoma interlude: Chihuly's grocery bags


photo by Ballard Avenue

Our self-imposed 65-word limit renders a full discussion of glass artist Dale Chihuly's essential lameness impossible, but you would be excused if you thought this work on his "Bridge of Glass" in Tacoma was actually a collection of grocery bags nailed to a lamppost. Thankfully Tacoma's lovely old Union Station, now a US Courthouse, offers up a little creative legitimacy to the picture.