01. February 2012 · Comments Off on Duvall Barn – Duvall · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: , ,

Today’s image was taken in Duvall.  Duvall is a very small city in Washington located between Carnation and Monroe.  It’s around 10 miles from Redmond and is a large community neighborhood for (amongst others) Microsoft employees.

It’s very quaint in Duvall (if that sounds condescending I don’t mean it to), it has a small high street of shops and almost looks like it comes directly from the 50’s (well it does to me).

Anyway I was driving through Duvall and went straight past this barn.  It looked almost derelict with its moss-covered roof that was falling off.   I immediately thought it would make a great picture so I turned the car around and stopped to take the shot.  I liked the two windows at the top of the barn too as to me they almost look like eyes.

There was a little bit of blue sky poking through and even a little green grass at the front.  Add to that the clouds looked pretty cool (it had rained earlier in the day).

Hope you like the image.

James (my son) has recently got into skateboarding and when it’s dry outside can usually be found skating round the neighborhood.  Not to be out done our Halo hero’s wanted to try it too.  Although I betting this will end in tears!

Skateboard
26. January 2012 · Comments Off on Red Barn – Redmond · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: , ,

This Red Barn is in the Redmond to Fall City road and I’ve driven past it hundreds of times. As there was a little snow left on the ground I thought I’d catch this shot as with the white field, red barn, evergreen trees and bit of blue sky poking through it looked good. I also liked the road leading you to the barn. Some will say that the telegraph poles and lines are a distraction (they usually are) but for some reason I like them here in this shot too.

Tragically we had an accident at home and a Halo guy lost his head.  The CSI division were immediately called in to investigate

Halo CSI
24. January 2012 · Comments Off on Tolt McDonald Park – Carnation · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: , ,

Tolt McDonald Park in Carnation has a really nice picnic area and in the middle of it is this huge barn that contains all the picnic tables. Only in Washington State would you find a covered picnic area that’s full of tables. I guess it’s usually too wet to eat outside.

Anyway I really liked the look of the barn and the grain of the wood in the ceiling. So I took this picture not really expecting it to come out, but when I got home I was really pleased with the look.

Not being a picnic kind of guy I doubt I’ll ever eat in this place but it made a cool picture.

As it’s cold outside and Carter had an ear infection they decided to stay in and play some more games.

Dominoes