photo by HeatherW

Still no camera and no pictures in the vaults, so we found this snap of two cats among the 1,240,802 photos about cats on Flickr.

photo by Ballard Avenue

He was just sitting on a wire the other day and since I've never seen a hummingbird sit still for so long, I had to take a picture of the little guy.

The fab Sony camera responsible for all our fab photos has gone missing somewhere between Ballard and Canada, so until it is found or a replacement obtained, photo postings will be few and far between. Get ready for more YouTube accordion video than you ever imagined.

photo from Paris Daily Photo

He rocks.

from the fertile mind of Jay Ward

We're off to Canada for a few days and we won't be cracking Dudley Do-right jokes. Canadians sometimes bristle over Dudley. They think he's a bit insulting. Granted, Dudley can be a bit of a doofus, but his heart is in the right place and he tries to do the right thing. As national symbols go, that's not so bad.

As they say, this is cool on so many levels.

photo by Ballard Avenue

As if there's not enough in this world to worry about, we now have to watch out for falling attacking cats from apartment buildings. I'm staying indoors...

photo by Ballard Avenue

Not sure this old International truck is really such a good advertisement for Bob's Used Cars.

photo by Ballard Avenue

It's hard to imagine salmon runs in urban creeks, but after lots of hard work on habitat restoration by volunteers, Pipers Creek supports a small run of coho salmon. She's hard to see but that's the point of camouflage. You don't want an eagle to swoop down for a salmon dinner before she gets her business done.

It's a hard life, to be sure, to be a street musician, but it would have its joys, as we can see in this video of a fellow working at a street market in Bordeaux.

photo by Ballard Avenue

Thankfully not in your pants.

photo by Ballard Avenue

From time to time Callie will leave her comfy basket to see what's going on in the world.

photo by Ballard Avenue

We started to see these hoses stretch across people's yards during last month's record rainfall. The basement might be flooding but who wants to go mucking about the downspout drains in winter? Right now, you just want the water to go somewhere else.

photo by Ballard Avenue

See, she was under those covers the whole time. Callie loves to burrow deep into her basket.

photo by Ballard Avenue

Oh, she's under there, all right. Trust us and you'll see...