I couldn’t believe it when I looked out my window this morning. Snow, again. And again, I was headed north.
This time it wasn’t as bad as our trip three weeks ago to Bellingham.
By the time I got dressed and went outside to take photos, the snow was melting rapidly.
So I thought, I’ll take a chance and go to the luncheon for the Washington Press Association at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
It was a great event. The purpose of the luncheon was to present awards for the association’s 2007 Communications Contest.
I received a first place award for the newsletter About Growth that I edited for the Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development. The column I wrote for people 50-plus for The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash., garnered a second place award.
What fun. I enjoyed getting together with other writers and learning about their work in the last year. It was great for the boomer consumer blogger to get out of the house and away from the computer screen for a while.
I also enjoyed taking photos of the airplanes in the Museum of Flight. It was a good chance to practice photographing backlighted subjects.
The roads were good. As I returned to Olympia about 5 p.m., we had rain mixed with snow. I didn’t have any problems, but one unfortunate driver spun out of control, hurtled across the median strip, and came to rest just beyond the edge of the fast lane on the other side of the freeway. It didn’t look like a big smashup occurred, but the traffic was stopped for miles.
I certainly hope this is it for my snow photos. We had to take off our snow tires in Washington on April 5, so I don’t want to do any driving in snow conditions.
