Spring is in the Air

Spokane is still grey and dreary, but the flowers were out in Austin

  Hints of Spring are starting to fill the air in Spokane.  The weather is warming up, and I think that I can safely say that there will be no more snow in the city.  Not that I am going to take my winters off quite yet. It has now been over a week since [...]

Vintage Spokane Today

IMAX and the World Fair

Expo ’74 is the Spokane in its hey day. The marks (or scars) of this Expo can be seen throughout the downtown. The IMAX and the American Pavilion stand today. It was an environmentally themed expo, which seems ironic since buildings downtown were demolished to make room for parking lots, never to

Cannon and Pacific

Thursday Evening in Brownes

I have been playing around with my camera more and more lately, and since the days are so much shorter already I have been breaking out the tripod and doing some night shooting. Tully’s and The Avenue (formerly Pacific Pizza) are a couple of blocks away and are my favorite places to hang out for [...]

Be the Master of the Burger

Fall 2010, Seattle, Washington

I had an IEEE Meeting in Seattle the other weekend and on our drive back to Spokane we went by this sign. I am thinking now that we should have stopped to see if they really did master the burger.
I find drive in’s odd, the kind that you stay in your car and the staff [...]

Bus Stop

Bus Stop

One of the nice touches that you can find when wandering around Spokane’s Browne’s Addition is the old timey bus/carriage stops.  I have nice warm feelings from the glow of the HPS lighting in the evening.  It actually takes me back to Halifax on the waterfront when there is a little mist in the air. [...]

Back in Time

Back in Time

Wandering around Spokane you come across a lot of old cars, or at least I consider them old since anything more than 10yrs that is not stored is rusted through back on the Atlantic Coast.  The weather in the Inland Empire is very friendly to metal and that means cars can last a lot longer. [...]

The E.J. Roberts porch

The E.J. Roberts porch

Living above the Train Tracks

Living above the Train Tracks

Train Cars in the Sun

Train yard in the South End of Halifax