This is what I see every time I go home but yesterday I decided to stop, admire it and photograph it. The one on the top is a view of downtown Seattle from one of its many marinas. The actual marina is what you see in the bottom picture. This marina is located at Lake Union, Portage Bay, and ahead is East Seattle - of course it's just a tiny part of it.

Let me tell you the story of these baby birds. There I was, sitting in the kitchen studying when I lifted up my head and saw, through the glass door, these two perching on the fence. They looked so cute together but at the same time they seemed a bit scared and acted like they were protecting one another. I ran upstairs to get my camera - fortunately came back in time to see their mother arriving to feed them, and along came the father (of course I am guessing the bigger ones were mother and father, but...) and started tweeting vigorously at them. It's a pity I couldn't catch on camera what came next - they did what looked like their first flight. It was a wonder!!! After the adrenaline rush they perched back on our fence and just rested for a looooong time. This happened on Thursday and they keep coming back to our fence ever since. Always together. Always very protective towards each other. Isn't Mother Nature the best mother ever?

Well, since my classes were taking up all my time I didn't have many opportunities to go out and explore, which means no new posts for you. That's why I decided to take a picture of my computer while I was talking to my dear dear friend Ester - if the idea of the blog is to take good seats and take pictures, here it is a picture from my seat in front of my desk.

See you later.

This poor hawk was screeching all morning long and I was sitting in the porch. I think it was a mama hawk screeching for its babies. It was a very sad screech... I managed to zoom in with my camera and that's the closest I got of it.

This time I went to a town called Leavenworth, which is about two hours east of Lynnwood. The town is also called The Bavarian Gateway - everywhere you go it feels like your're in Germany.

The weather was great! No, these white flakes are not snow. These are cotton flakes that fall from the cotton trees, and they were everywhere!!!

The road we took to get there gave me the opportunity to experience the most exuberant sight of the Washington mountains. It was just perfect. Because it was sunny and kind of hot I decided to try the water, so i pulled my pants up and dipped my feet...they are still frozen...

The Wenatchee River is famous for rafting and I really felt like going back there to try it.

That's what is amazing about summer here...I took this picture at exactly 20:45. That's right, it was a quarter to nine in the evening!!! Oh, by the way, this is the view from the back balcony of our house.