photo by Ballard Avenue

If you have to be a dove, then be a white dove at Waikiki. 

photo by Ballard Avenue

Is it Zen or just a lucky photo?

photo by Ballard Avenue

Here's a picture from the Syttende mai parade: A Saab 96 snuck in amongst the group from the Northwest Volvo Club. And it wasn't any old Saab 96, it was a two-stroke Saab 96. If you're not a pistonhead, you'll never understand (and there's nothing wrong with that), but if you are, then you know how cool this is. It's too bad this isn't Blogger Smell-O-Vision, so I could have bottled some of that unburned hydrocarbon goodness for you all to take a deep breath of.

photo by Ballard Avenue

We were down to Golden Gardens the other day and saw this house floating past. Fleeing Ballard, perhaps?

video by Steve Mobia

A total accordiogeekgasm. I can't wait.

photo by Ballard Avenue

They're all nuts, you realize, but they're having fun.

photo by Ballard Avenue

There's a lively Australian Rules football scene around Puget Sound. Aussie Rules, also known as footy, is a peculiar twist on the time-honored game of a-bunch-of-guys-run-around-and-chase-a-ball. Despite having an actual Australian along to interpret events for me, I had little idea of what was going on. But a splendid time was had by all and boy, can the lads ever put away the beer.