Issaquah Salmon Days, October 1, 2011
  
 
Issaquah Salmon Days
 
issaquah_salmon_days_01.JPG (333252 bytes) Eastbound on I-90, crossing the Bellevue / Issaquah line...
 
issaquah_salmon_days_02.JPG (771104 bytes) issaquah_salmon_days_03.JPG (513384 bytes) At Issaquah I followed the creek to a point were parade participants were staging...
 
The parade... on Issaquah's Front St...
 
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issaquah_salmon_days_14.JPG (593559 bytes) issaquah_salmon_days_15.JPG (775798 bytes) issaquah_salmon_days_16.JPG (401234 bytes) The truth be known... if I had it to do over again I would be in the high school marching band instead of on the football team...
 
issaquah_salmon_days_17.JPG (369826 bytes) issaquah_salmon_days_18.JPG (432860 bytes) The area around the Rogue Brewery... I mean the Issaquah BrewHouse...
 
issaquah_salmon_days_19.JPG (697680 bytes) My corndog was excellent...
 
issaquah_salmon_days_20.JPG (845098 bytes) I was trying to figure out how I might rig one of these inside Bigfoot...
 
issaquah_salmon_days_21.JPG (661789 bytes) At the Cougar Mountain Zoo booth. Back in early September my friend Scott snapped the photo to the right with his phone, across the street from his home. From this photo the lady in the zoo booth corrected my misidentification of these cats as cougars - they were in fact bobcats... bobcats.jpg (238278 bytes)
 
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issaquah_salmon_days_30.JPG (900903 bytes) issaquah_salmon_days_39.JPG (797495 bytes) issaquah_salmon_days_40.JPG (846771 bytes) Having found the Bluegrass stage, I hitched up and listened to Wayward Vessel...
 
The Salmon ladder...
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issaquah_salmon_days_43.JPG (589027 bytes) Back at the Bluegrass stage... The Uptown Mountain Boys. Very good players, all from the Seattle area. I saw the banjo player - Dave Keenan -  a week earlier on the Crossroads Mall stage playing a Silvertone electric guitar with an outfit called Miles & Karina (Karina was playing a Petosa accordion)....
 
issaquah_salmon_days_42.JPG (812927 bytes) A stand-off... Bluegrass band vs. little girl...
 
More of the Uptown Mountain Boys...
 
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issaquah_salmon_days_48.JPG (848437 bytes) Eventually I got back on my mount and rode back from whence I came...