Freeway Park

Photo & Text © 2010 Kim- Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved; no use, alteration, reproduction or republishing in any media.

Seattle's "freeway with a lid on it" created a Convention Center and an urban park able to span the I-5 cut between First Hill / downtown and Capitol Hill to the east. Freeway Park and the Washington State Trade and Convention Center (green windowed buildings to left) sit over the freeway and display brutalist architecture's ability to merge with natural forms like the hanging garden greenery that descends to the freeway below. In view to the left in the park is the George Washington profile sculpture on posts that also seem to serve as an arbor for climbing greenery.

Freeway Park

Photo & Text © 2010 Kim- Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved; no use, alteration, reproduction or republishing in any media.

Seattle's "freeway with a lid on it" created a Convention Center and an urban park able to span the I-5 cut between First Hill / downtown and Capitol Hill to the east. Freeway Park and the Washington State Trade and Convention Center (green windowed buildings to left) sit over the freeway and display brutalist architecture's ability to merge with natural forms like the hanging garden greenery that descends to the freeway below. In view to the left in the park is the George Washington profile sculpture on posts that also seem to serve as an arbor for climbing greenery.

The "Fit" Does

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Drive by dining? Well, this is life in Post Alley :-). The Fit car lives up to its name as it inches past diners at the Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub.

The "Fit" Does

Photo & Text © 2010 Kim- Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved; no use, alteration, reproduction or republishing in any media.

Drive by dining? Well, this is life in Post Alley :-). The Fit car lives up to its name as it inches past diners at the Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub.

Theme Day: Bright Colors

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We went walking and for dinner on a clear and warm summer evening and ended up at Cafe Campagne. Along the way I noticed the colorful umbrellas of the balcony of Copacabana Cafe and the summer flowers that line the upper story all along Pike Place Market seemed a perfect way to share in today's "Bright Colors" theme. Cities all over the globe are showing off their colorful side. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

Theme Day: Bright Colors

Photo & Text © 2010 Kim- Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved; no use, alteration, reproduction or republishing in any media.

We went walking and for dinner on a clear and warm summer evening and ended up at Cafe Campagne. Along the way I noticed the colorful umbrellas of the balcony of Copacabana Cafe and the summer flowers that line the upper story all along Pike Place Market seemed a perfect way to share in today's "Bright Colors" theme. Cities all over the globe are showing off their colorful side. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

Pirate!

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Since 1949 Seattle's Seafair Pirates have had a lot of fun dressing in elaborate period costume and delighting crowds while swashbuckling their way through all the city's summer festivities, but this little pirate doesn't look a thing like Johnny Depp yet captured my heart with with his great smile and home-made hat. Are we having fun yet? You bet! Tonight (Jul 31) is the 61st Seafair Torchlight Parade through downtown. 300,000 people are expected to line the route to catch glimpses of local grand marshal Apolo Anton Ohno, a star athlete from last winter's Vancouver, BC Olympics, and the newly crowned Miss Seafair and the Seafair princesses, the famous Seafair Clowns, the elaborate floats, the Seafair Commodores, all sorts of civic organizations and personalities, marching bands, and, yes, the grown-up Seafair Pirates and their booming canon menacing the streets and delighting the children.