Week 2 in Wenatchee (Pangorn Airport)

Project rolling along quickly, getting the crushed rock in place while forms for concrete curb are being set. Interesting sight on the tarmac today- a helicoptor rescue crew does monthly practice sessions right behind the FedEx building. They made several runs dropping rope and zipping two guys down for training. Got a shot during the 2nd sequence. More notes on Wenatchee later...

Fire Station view

The access road we are rebuilding goes to FedEx and the Fire Station at Pangborn Airport. The Fire Station is like a miniature control tower so sometimes I can go in there to catch the view. Here's a shot through the station window. Hopefully I'll get to fly over these mountains before the job is over!

Wenatchee Pangborn Airport

OK, I've started up on the segue inspection job- the Fire Access Road at Pangborn Airport in Wenatchee. It's east of East Wenatchee, actually. The view of Wenatchee Valley is very impressive! I've only driven through a couple times on the way to Seattle, never stopped to take a look around. Here's a couple shots- one is a wide view of only part of the valley, I'm trying to find a better location to get a wide view, the other is a shot of work on the job with the mountains in the background. Pangborn Airport has a nice view of a range to the south of Wenatchee.

Jobsite wildlife

Someday I'd like to do a few sessions of serious bird & wildlife photography. It' s not like a landscape where you simply show up early or late in the day for good light. The landscape doesn't move, it's always going to be right where you left it! The birds on our jobsite have some predictable activities but I need a longer lens- a 400 or 500 to get some really good shots. And I might have to sit in one spot for a couple hours for a good shot. In the meantime I did catch a pheasant a few weeks ago and some crows with the moon in the background so I'll just include those here-

Final week in Walla Walla, i.e. College Place

The last 12 weeks have gone by fast! I'm thinking about setting up a separate blog that stores the pictures and events of the East Whitman Drive Extension project. This project converted an old onion field into a minor arterial, serving residential and commercial lots. I've worked about 20 weeks on the project. It's been fun meeting & working with the crew from Apollo Construction and the inspectors & staff of City of College Place. I wish I could have seen it to the very end but some delays have pushed it beyond my schedule. Teresa & I are heading to Hawaii for Angela's wedding next week then I go up to Wenatchee for the next inspection project.

I'll have some project wrap-up thoughts at the end of the week, here's a quick before and after from Whitman Drive- last October and last week-

Back at work...

My long delay here was due to getting back into the inspection racket and then losing track entirely of my new adventure with blogging! Since I now have the rest of the summer lined out I feel like I can start updating this thing at least on a weekly basis. There are many family and friends that I will start inviting to this blog. I need to find out if there is a "Visitor's Book" concept that can be attached to blogs- a way for people to sign in the first time they visit?!

Anyone reading this can give me some suggestions since it's all new to me!

KREM Big Dig

Not having enough mess to deal with at my house, I decided to go join KREM's Big Dig for a couple hours this Saturday (2/3/08.) They divided the South Hill into sections, I arrived a few minutes late so I got a map for Section 4- bounded by Regal, 29th, Havana and 37th. After patrolling solo for a few minutes I found a few people to work with mainly on 32nd & 33rd Streets. See the pictures in the slideshow in the right side of the blog.