Fish Tales

It snowed in the Cascades. The current forecast is for the snow level to drop to 1000 feet. My house, on top of a hill, sits at about 800 feet. When it snows in Seattle, it snows at my house. It’s been bitter cold for the last few days so a little snow on the …


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Room with a View

Looking down the alley towards the south from my Seattle bedroom. That big old volcano in the distance is Mount Rainier and yes, you really can see it from my house. The best view is from the shower, but setting up the tripod in the bathtub is really awkward. I’m messing around with high ISOs …


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Seattle Soup Swap

Hello, welcome! I know you’re here to read about soup swap, but stick around – it’s more than just soup at Nerd’s Eye View. You might also enjoy: To Venice for Lunch You Are Here While My Uke Gently Weeps or, who knows, maybe not. There’s stuff about cooking seafood, local and international adventures, ukulele …


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Seattle’s Asian Art Museum

I don’t get out much, and truly, that’s my own damn fault. It’s not that I don’t like to get out, it’s that I’m solar powered and good god, is it dark. I’m content in bed between the flannel sheets with something good to read or an iPod crammed full of vintage radio. I can’t …


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Red Chair, Green Wall

Empty lot near High Point, West Seattle. complementary color n. Either one of two colors whose mixture in the right proportions produces white (in the case of light) or gray (in the case of pigment). A color directly opposite another on a color wheel and providing the greatest chromatic contrast to it. See table at …


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