Ryan's "Underestimate"

I underestimate things all the time... how difficult it is to nail focus on near macro images when you're too lazy to set up a tripod, how many rings it takes to get married....

Fred's "Underestimate"

Kitten food level seems about right?

Cory's Underestimate

The Fremont Bridge, built in 1917, is a bascule bridge that crosses the Fremont Cut in Seattle.  Long before Europeans started moving into the area, Lake Union and the Puget Sound were connected by a small stream that ran from the lake into the sound.  As the population increased, a canal was eventually cut to connect the bodies of water, which eventually made it possible to all of the way from the sound to Lake Washington by water.

Today, this bridge crosses the canal and connects Seattle's Queen Anne and Ballard neighborhoods.  The canal sees a lot use from both small and large boats, and since water traffic has right of way, it opens and closes very frequently throughout the day.  All a boat has to do is whistle to get the bridge operator to open it!  According to a few sources, it is the most frequently opened bridge in the US.

When opening a drawbridge for a boat to pass under it, you certainly don't want to underestimate the height of the boat's mast. 

Underestimate - Robert

It's always interesting trying to see things through a baby's eyes. In this case, it looks like she was contemplating whether she had climbed too high (she underestimated the height?). For me, it was a little terrifying to let her continue to crawl up the stairs, as the railings were not "to code," and she could have easily fit through them. Fortunately, she's starting to get a little more cautious, but I'm learning, as a new parent, that I don't want to underestimate what she's capable of doing without any kind of warning.

CharDale's Underestimate

I got this shirt at last year's Big Omaha event. I totally underestimated the quality of this shirt. It's been worn and washed at least a dozen times. The pic was taken after 8 hours of use. And believe it or not, it had virtually no lint when I snapped the photo. It's practically unedited. 🤔How can this be possible on black fabric? Amazing!

CharDale's Forgotten

Everyone wants to drink vintage beers and aged whiskey. The classic bottle of Clearly Canadian always gets forgotten. With Clearly Canadian, you're instantly placed back in the 90's, where so many good drinks were swallowed.
Don't just enjoy this photo, go get yourself one because they've been resurrected from the dead!

Quentin's Forgotten floors

I've spent much of the past month trying to save these 1-1/2 inch maple floors.

Ryan's "Forgotten"

In 1968 a couple guys started digging a hole in a cornfield along the Missouri River... and found an old steamboat.

The Bertrand sank after preemptively reenacting the Titanic story with a dead tree on April 1, 1865 about 30 miles up river from Omaha. It was hauling merchandise to the gold fields in Montana, including a large shipment of mercury. I believe the people that found it were searching for that mercury.

It seems that most of the mercury was recovered soon after the sinking. Enough other cargo, including these cannon balls, lay forgotten underground after the river shifted to fill a museum at the DeSoto Bend Nature Preserve.

The story is more interesting than the photo.

There are a few more photos here.

Annemarie's "Forgotten"

I love the ghost signs that can be found all around town - especially the Old Market. This corner, covered in dead overgrowth, used to be part of the original Greenberg Fruit Company building. The sign reads "Wholesale Fruit and Commission." The artist/designer in me would love to see what these buildings looked like originally.

Micky's forgotten

Fred's "Forgotten"

As Robert alluded, St. Joseph is full of neglected buildings, like this. This building once housed the livestock exchange offices. Now it's falling apart. It looks like someone's trying to save the dome at the center with scaffolding to keep it together, but that's just a fraction of work needed on this relic.

Cory's Forgotten

Every day on my way to work, I ride my bike past these old railroad tracks on the western shore of Lake Union.  They were used pretty heavily in the early and mid 1900s, but today they are abandoned and forgotten.

I had a hard time finding information about what this section of track was used for when searching on the web, but as far as I can tell the spur was build in about 1911 and was used until the mid 1990s.  It was one of the spurs of the Northern Pacific Railway, which seems to have a colorful history in Seattle in the late 1800s and early 1900s.  One of the few photos I could find is from 1915, when this stretch of rail was a nice trestle just off shore of Lake Union.  Today the land has filled in and is butted right up against it, but there is still a bit of a dropoff between the ties. 

Somebody else has done more sleuthing than I have and has some more information on the tracks at http://lakeunionwatershed.com/?p=377.  I also ran across a higher view of the area from 1916.  This section of track is just out of view on the curve, very close to where the road bridge crosses the rails.

Robert's "Forgotten"

I chose to interpret "forgotten" in the sense of "neglected." This detached garage belongs to a house in Saint Joseph, MO. that (I believe) is still inhabited.

February's topic is "Forgotten"

Don't forget to take a picture for it!

Micky's vintage

• Lucky find on 48th and one block north of L