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Saturday, July 9, 2011

In Touch With His Inner Viking

It's that time of year for fun in the streets. This weekend you can head over to Ballard and follow the scent of the alder wood smoke to the amazing Salmon dinner and the rest of what the historic maritime neighborhood's 37th Annual Seafood Fest has to offer. It's in full swing from 11AM to 9PM today and tomorrow, inviting folks to come enjoy all kinds of amazing street food, two stages of live music, dancing and entertainment, beer and wine gardens, lots of fun children's activities, artists and vendors booths, and that certain Ballard Nordic vibe. They invite you to come "eat, play, plunder." I got a kick out of The Hi-Life's non-seafood offering to the festivities--the popular local eatery in a refurbished historic fire house started late last night roasting a pig for their 2nd Annual Ballard Back Alley Pork-Fest today. It's all about alternatives, from Vegan eats to Big Easy-style red beans and rice with shrimp, to Lutefisk, Deadliest Catch crab, roasted corn, and gourmet seafood, you won't go away from seafood fest hungry. This gentleman got into the spirit of things at last year's fest and was kind enough to let me nab this close shot.

Friday, July 8, 2011

5th Anniversary of Seattle Daily Photo

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Many thanks for stopping in to help celebrate SDP's 5th Blogoversary. It is the people I've come to know through SDP and the photo friendships that have developed that have made exploring and photoblogging Seattle's diverse neighborhoods so fun. Up there in the new header photo I've pulled up 5 red chairs from the Olympic Sculpture Park for you to sit in the sun and relax. Perhaps you'd enjoy a little happy hour style appetizer to get the party started, so here is a tiny sampler of some of the most well received of the 1735 posts from 2006 to present. SDP by the numbers in 5 years is kind of mind boggling. Over 525,000 visitors have made 1,058,145 pageviews from 19,488 cities in 200 countries. Over 4,200 are subscribed to the RSS feed, and 653 folks are following through Google Friend Connect. That's a ton of wonderful people! Thank you for your many kind comments and for informing, inspiring me and stretching me in new directions. If you're a longtime visitor or fellow City Daily Photo blogger you may have noticed I haven't been able to visit around to comment as I used to, and my dailiness in posting here has been slipping since my employment went to full time last fall :-). I'll get back into the regular rhythm soon and look forward to sharing many more shots of what catches my eye in this amazing city. Thanks very much!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Urban Chickens

Urban chickens are pretty commonplace in Seattle backyards. These two, however, decided to keep an eye on what was happening in the front yard of their Queen Anne Hill home. This Saturday, July 9, 20011, Seattle Tilth is sponsoring it's Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour from 10AM-4PM in several neighborhoods throughout Seattle (all information can be found by clicking this link ). My backyard neighbors built an amazing coop last year. When I saw it taking shape I thought they were building an architectural model or a designer shed. It was really amazing, but I don't know if it will be on the tour :-). I just love hearing their beautiful hens' little happy sounds. They are well cared for and I think the neighbors are happy having their small supply of fresh eggs.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

It Was a Sunny Day

. . .not a cloud was in the sky.
Sun dogs flare on lens glass as I shoot straight into the sun. Can you see the float plane heading into the northwest? The pilot had a spectacular view as far as the eye can see. Hope your day was as beautiful as it was here!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Casting Shadows in Seattle's Streets

Seattle streets are full of people enjoying the summer sun. This cyclist was one of them. It wasn't until I uploaded this shot that I noticed the rider had a "pocket full of Kryptonite," (her orange bike lock in her back pocket :-).

Monday, July 4, 2011

Ready and Waiting

The Center for Wooden Boats is a treasure among all Seattle's wonderful organizations that educate and give so much pleasure back to the community. Situated at the south end of Lake Union, it provides education for all ages, demonstrations, boating classes, camps for kids, boat building, restoration and repair know-how for enthusiasts, and opportunities to see historic ships or get out on the water in small craft like this. Over this 4th of July weekend the Wooden Boat Festival will welcome thousands of visitors to its Lake Union Park home. I'm with Ratty: "There is nothing- absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

Friday, July 1, 2011

Theme Day: Green

My fave color! Well, it's the theme for first of the month CDPBlogger's theme day, and I'm late, but here :-). I call this shot Day Vision (as opposed to night vision and that green view such goggles give).
This is the glass roof of the vivarium at the SAM Olympic Sculpture Park. You can see a little bit of blue sky peeking through. This green glass casts an eerie hue over everything inside and sometimes out (see my More Seattle Stuff page to see a cool sidewalk shadow). The vivarium was build around the long living tree on it's side that inhabits this unique structure (see photos here). Check out how other interpreted the theme by clicking here to view thumbnails for all participants.