Sunday Selections

 

This is a meme that Elephant's Child has been posting about, I think since I started following here many years ago. She is on #583. According to her, the purpose of the meme is to use up photo's that are languishing on your camera roll that would otherwise not have a home. Having ridden on seven different trains since Christmas, I have quite a lot of those who will thank Elephant's Child for the opportunity of liberation. So without further ado... 

I do not think that I used this picture on anything else. It is the ceiling of the King Street Station in Seattle. The buildings built for the railroads in the early 1900's were spectacular structures that obviously meant to impress passengers. Those that are built in the Amtrak period are much more humble. Some aren't really even stations, they just drop off or pick up in front of whatever building seems to be available on the track. Sometimes the building isn't much more than a bus shelter by the tracks. It kind of tells you the way the railroad has gone over the last century and a fifth. The issues that I am having with them right now is all about that loss of customer service and has nothing to do with the buildings. But the buildings do reflect the companies culture.

This was one of the first train trip pictures that I took. Considering that I was taking pictures from a fast moving train through a dirty window, you would expect a blurred picture that can't be made out. That isn't really the story with this one. What happened was that we were moving head on into a blizzard, and only a few days before Christmas, to boot. There is actually a river and some mountains that can't be made out in the distance. It was hard to see it in the snow and it didn't show up at all on the picture. The snow was blowing sideways. My compliments to the conductor for keeping the train on the tracks.

This winery is in eastern Washington state, near a town named Wenatchee. I hear that it is a tourist town and worth going to see. Instead of the grand tour of the country that I had hoped to enjoy on Amtrak this summer, I might just take the train there and enjoy a few days tasting wine instead. Or maybe Karen and Ken would like to go with me, and we could easily drive there in a few hours. We haven't been travelling much this year due to Cheese being so weak. We didn't want to have to ask someone else to care for him while he was down. Now that we only have healthy cats, we can have someone come by twice a day to feed them, and they will be fine. I think that I'd like to see the vines in their lush summer greens. 
 

Elephant's Child's selection this Sunday featured clouds, so I thought that this would be a good place to end my selections today. I hope I haven't bored you too much with my little slideshow of my travels. 

Have a wonderful week...