In these mild summer evenings, we love to eat dinner outside while hummingbirds do the same at the backyard feeder. We are obsessively trying to photograph the pair of Rufus birds that we think have set up house in a very spiky tree that hangs over the low fence between our yard and the neighbors’. …
Welcome to another edition of the Carnival of Cities! I do enjoy hosting this carnival – I get to (virtually) see all kinds of places I’d never come across otherwise. Thanks for the submissions!
Wow, there are loads of links this week, let’s see if I can make sense out of them. To set the tone, let’s have a little accordion music. It’s all below the break…
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 …
I am not a sports fan. I voted whole heartedly against building what is admittedly a gorgeous ball park because I thought our civic funds should be spent elsewhere. I almost never watch sports on television – save for the random few hours spent gobstruck by the Olympics. I will not go out of my …
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. …
Jason Solarek, the design guy behind Air Wear sent me a box o’ swag with my airport code on it – that’s SEA in case you’re wondering. I’ll tell you what I told him – those snappy airport logos make my eyeballs happy. I’m using the notebook for a project I’m starting today – and …