Seattle

West Seattle is a summer postcard.

I went out back to look at the garden; it’s full of flowers. I have a vague idea how that happened, but I don’t think it has much to do with me.

Last week I went to Ballard to interview Bill Erickson of Erickson Longboards for a story. We talked about skateboarding and salvaging materials and travel and Hawaii, specifically. When I called to set a date for the interview, he was standing at the Hilo Farmer’s Market, which was funny because I was there the following …

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It was windy and the flowers had fallen over. The note on the door said that the Wing Luke Museum, right behind me, would be collecting the notes and gifts left here, archiving them for the family. I didn’t know who the guy was or what had happened, only that it wasn’t that long ago …

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Jeff Sandys was gently pulling each petal of a miniature dahlia and pasting it into a 10×10 grid. There’s a raffle and the winner who guessed the number of petals on this particular flower would win, “Oh, I don’t know, I think it’s 25 dollars,” Jeff said, waving his long hands. “Do you grow?” Jeff …

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