Fall in Lincoln Park
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Seattle
Fall Arrives in Seattle
I got out of bed this morning with a real craving for nature. Maybe it was the golden cast of the fall light across our suburban neighborhood, maybe it was a hangover the bright lights of New York City, maybe it was the last three days spent blurry and wrapped in the gooey cellophane of …
Chicken and Coffee
On the right, a neighborhood girl and her chicken, Neptune, outside Makeda Coffee in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Neptune is a frizzle bantam. She stayed on her leash, tied up to the bench outside until the girls got their drinks. I asked one of the owners about pets in the shop. “I think I’d draw the …
A Room with a View
The Space Needle, a shining vision of The Future as seen from 1962 is an icon of our city, our skyline. It’s been in Gray’s Anatomy, Frasier, and The Simpsons. We’ve watched the fireworks off the Needle on many a New Year’s Eve – one year I remember it was so foggy that the pyrotechnics …
A Fisherman’s a Person in your Neighborhood
About 11am. J, from the kitchen: There’s a guy walking past the houe with a giant fish! Me: WHAT?! J: Look outside. He’s walking past the house with a huge salmon. Me, getting up from my desk, going to the front window. J: See, he just set the fish down on the grass next door. …
Seattle Summer Solstice
Up here in the northwest corner of the US, the thing we’re probably most famous for at Solstice time is our naked cyclists. These sun loving two wheelers strip down to their birthday suits and open the Fremont Solstice Parade. They’re a crowd pleaser every year, and hey, a gorgeous physique is not required to …