Kennewick Real Estate Blog

I was out of town last week and we never made it to the Benton-Franklin Fair, but I just read in the Herald that attendance was up 12% over last year, so it looks like a successful event. Most of the concerts were sold out, and same with the rodeo according to that article.

Since I couldn’t be there to shoot some photos, I thought I’d post some of the best photos I found on Flickr from local fair-goers.

Scott Butner took this great photo above on “Tough Enough to Wear Pink” night. Ha! You can see a couple fair photos in Scott’s Flickr stream.

This great action shot above is from Joe Nicora, who has a set of 10 fair photos on Flickr.

Lynda True shot this one of what I think is one of the entrants in the flower competition. You can see Lynda’s full set of 37 photos on Flickr.

Thanks to Scott, Joe, and Lynda for letting me post their photos here. I should also mention that Flickr user ~.michelle.~ uploaded a few fair photos, but hers are marked “All rights reserved,” so I shouldn’t post one of them here.

Maybe next year we’ll get out there and I’ll shoot some photos of my own….

We had a super-warm weekend here in the Tri-Cities. I think we hit 80 degrees on Sunday, or real close to it. (Of course, the temp was down by about 20 degrees on Monday, but that’s spring for you.)

Anyway, as we get closer to the warm weather of summer, one of Kennewick’s hot spots will — as always — be the Playground of Dreams in Columbia Park. In addition to the traditional playground stuff for kids to do, like climbing, swinging, digging, etc., one of my favorite things is the big water park. Here’s a picture of my daughter (light blue shirt) and I all the way back in 2004:

I’m sure there’s an official name for it, but I just call it the water park. It sprays water on and off constantly, and when the Kennewick weather gets hot, this is the place to be. I’m hoping we’ll go back again this summer. It’s one of the best things to do in Kennewick, no doubt about it!

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As warmer weather starts to arrive here in the Tri-Cities, I’ll be on the lookout for photo opportunities like the one you see up above in the “header” of this blog. I took that photo last July 4 along the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick. Cari and I took the kids down to the river to watch the annual fireworks display over the river, and we enjoyed this sunset while waiting for the sky to get dark.

This reminds me of one thing that out-of-town friends and family often say when they see photos I’ve taken around the Tri-Cities area: We have a beautiful sky.

Amen to that.

Here’s a larger version of the photo, and you can click on it to go to Flickr and see what other people said about this one.