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I met a couple at the Columbia Winery tasting bar who had donned their leather riding gear and taken a sunny day Harley ride out to visit the wineries near Woodinville, northeast of Seattle. She sported orange nail polish and he an orange shirt. They both had Halloween themed silver rings on each of their fingers. I just HAD to ask for a photo of their hands on the bar.
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I came across an enormous red oak tree that stretched across a road and had giant limbs high enough that buses could easily make it underneath. It's a beautiful old tree, and very healthy. I could not fit the whole tree into a shot with the lens I had on me, so I thought I would show you what our autumn here has revealed in a few leaves against the sky. The city is in its final glory of fall color and there are leaves gracing trees and the ground everywhere. I saw so many people out raking up huge piles over the weekend. Hope you are enjoying autumns pleasures!
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A vendor at Pike Place Market took advantage of a momentary lull in customers to apply something to what looks like a tatt in progress. I gasped at those horse's eyes when she rolled up her sleeve.
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Seattle boasts two fine sports stadiums situated just south of downtown (SODO). The closest one in this photo is Quest Stadium, home of the Seahawks (American) Football team. The darker one visible just above the parking sign is Safeco Field, home of the Mariners Baseball team. This stadium has an amazing closing roof and is on the AIA's 150 Favorite structures in America list. That's Mount Rainier faintly visible behind, and the Seattle waterfront buildings along the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an elevated double deck highway. For a better view of Safeco Field, see my More Seattle Stuff page.
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HIs statue, that is. I missed the dedication at the new installation of the old Lief Erikson statue earlier this month but got to see it yesterday and its new setting is very nice. Part of an $85,000,000 redevelopment project of the land at the Port of Seattle's Shilshole Marina. The statue was a gift from the now defunct Leif Erikson League to Seattle at the time of the World's Fair in 1962. Leif has stood looking westward from a very high base at the Marina ever since (ten foot replicas of this statue were given to Trondheim, Norway for it's 1000th anniversary and to Greenland on the 1000th anniversary of Erikson's voyage). He now faces northwest and is mounted on a lower granite base amidst tall runic rocks adorned with carved symbols and plaques containing the names of the hundreds of supporters of this project. Leif looks a lot less green and I assume he had a good cleaning after they finally got him off his old base (not an easy project, I heard. . .he was a bit stubborn to leave!) See my More Seattle Stuff page for more photos of this new installation. Leif's looking GOOD!
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At the top of Post Alley where the gum wall ends and the brick pavers curve around and out toward Pike Place there is a motorcycle / scooter parking area near the base of a stairway. There is a restroom nearby. Sometimes people who live in apartments along the alley are coming and going, sometimes workers from the Market are taking a smoke break, sometimes there are maintenance folks or street characters or tourists walking. This man in business attire was simply standing there attending to something on his blackberry. My Flickr friend Dirk in Germany commented on this shot, "Bet this guy is waiting for a cab, right?" Well, I don't know. It didn't look like he'd ridden in on one of the scooters. He was there the ten minutes or so that I was taking shots in Post Alley.
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If you visited the gum wall at the Market Theater in Post Alley in the last year, you would notice that it has grown both thicker and expanded to include the wall past the theater entrance. This public work needs a curator, and I predict someone will publish a book of photos about the wall as it morphs over time, complete with lecture and book signing at Elliott Bay Books. ;^) The idea of the gum wall is even moving to other places. . .I've seen photos of something similar at Pier 39 in San Francisco. There are probably other locations. Lets hear about them. Is the gum wall phenom global yet? Please post what you know here in the comments section. Does your city have one?
This gum wall began with theater patrons waiting outside, placing a blob of chewing gum on the wall and sticking a penny or other coin in it. The coins would be picked off by other people, and the wall was cleaned of gum two or three times before the powers that be gave up and the wall became an interactive work of art. Now people chew wads of gum and shape letters and figures from it, as well as adding the conventional blobs. People seek out bright colored gums to chew and add. The older gum slowly crusts and cracks. I wonder how much DNA is represented on that wall? The first wall people started doing this on (to the left in this photo) has become so thick and crowded that people now regularly place blobs in the entryway and around the box office window and down the brick wall past the theater entryway. For more photos and close detail of how the work looks this week, see my More Seattle Stuff page.
