Around and About Seattle and Invirons...Again...

 

 

More photographs from around Seattle and King County...Spring and Summer lovely flower....and a few fish....

 

 

 

A couple of snails live in there as well. Tough things, snails.  Below is another angle on UW.  Verdure aplenty.

 

 

 

 

Above taken at a gas station. Yup. They have Bear sculptures there at the gas station. Interesting and well placed. Something different to look at.  

Then there is the wonderful Cloud City Coffee...

 

 

We saw this little guy popped in a narrow garden along the sidewalk near Cloud City.  

 

 

 

And the ferns at home....

 

 

 

And Yakima never disappoints in its bounty and color...even in the rain...

 

 

 

And then Fall...

 

 

 

And as October waned in 2019...a warm fire. 

 

 

Around and About 2019...

 University of Washington in 2019. Been awhile since I wrote here. Looking back to a year when I guess things were normal?  Enjoyed two trips to Washington in 2019.

You could eat out then. And we did. 

Yakima Fruit Market was lovely....

Cloud City Coffee was fun...and then we went to Patty's Egg Nest! Family visit awesome...

 

 

Then there was Fall...Washington in the Fall....

 

Seattle and Environs....2018

Another trip to the lovely Pacific Northwest...photo highlights of the weeks...of which the major event was graduation!

For those who have not traveled to Seattle and environs, please consider traveling there in future because it is truly a vibrant and scenically impressive area of the country. 

My favorite places to eat are Asian restaurants, of which there are many, including Yummy Pho!!  Love the food and the atmosphere. 

Another restaurant, in Kirkland, with interesting lighting! 

This one has interesting fans as well, and is a rather hipster place, with great food, nice people and fantastic baked goods!!  

Shot of Jay's Cafe in Kenmore.  TEAM SPIRIT!!!!! GO HAWKS!!!

Lovely aren't they? Volunteered in a random plant pot on a deck....

Architecture in the PNW - fascinating angles...colors....trees on top!

It was late in camellia season....but a buttery one left...

St. John's Wart....low growing and beautifully flowered out...another visit with memories for years to come. 

Donna Leon and Tomatoes...

You can tell Fall is on the way when the tomatoes start to really go to town...Our plant is in a huge pot and is now about five feet up out of the pot.  Beautiful tomatoes.  Meanwhile I have been reading all the books from our library which have been written by Donna Leon. The Inspector Brunetti series. I think I can safely say they are a vehicle to bring Venice and the Italian culture to the forefront of our minds. That is what has happened. Fascinating books in the detail, food, mind set and humor of the Italians of the region. Having never visited, it's the only clue I have as to that lovely City. I am thankful to Donna Leon for having written so many in the series. There is a gap in the middle of the series that I haven't read, so will probably be lurking on Thriftbooks for those.   You can read reviews in the links I have posted here, so no need for me to grow verbose. Just read the books.  They are in the Literary Mystery mode.  More texture and culture than mystery, even though the mystery carries us along. I would like to see what Donna Leon could do with a full length historical novel set in Venice.  I think she would nail it!  Not to sound to plebeian, but nail it she would.

Roses and Reading...

Summer in the lovely Vermont urban environment.....Breezy, mild, lazy Summer days. With all the commotion out there in the world, I will be posting some gentler reminders of our world....now and then. Reading Donna Leon books now - my library has several, so may as well give up on reading them in order. Each pile I check out I do read in order of publication, but from pile to pile it varies.  I like Brunetti.  The plots don't always resolve of course because her work is more literature than genre, and the setting being Venice, given Italian politics, you have to take the stories as more of a cultural and intellectual pastime. Given the pile of books I have in the unread category, I may get through some of the piles by next year. :)