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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The Show Trees of Capitol Hill

A walk around the neighborhood hands out color that will take your breath away. Don’t bother with Vermont, just put on your shoes and wander the hill instead. Bonus? The cinammon rolls at Essential Bakery are the crack cocaine of cinammon rolls. Butter and pecans go great with the snappy fall weather. Nerd’s Eye View …


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