The Place to Be
I, like Mr. Moy, took vacation last week. Mine, though, was seemingly
less adventurous and decidely more urban. The majority of my time was
spent cleaning and painting my recently acquired co-op apartment in Lower Queen Anne,
a part of town that's slightly northwest of downtown and about a 3 mile
scooter ride through the heart of the city to SU.
My preference for the place had less to do with district itself
and more to do with the nuances of the building-- its architecture, light, space etc. I was and continue to be fairly ignorant about the
characteristics of Lower Queen Anne as a unique part of Seattle, but the more
time I spend there, the more I'm realizing how much it incorporates a
number of the things about the Pacific Northwest that I love...
A couple blocks up the hill and I'm at Kerry Park (for viewers of the weather on the local news,
that's where those sweeping views of Seattle with the Space Needle are usually taken).
A few blocks down the hill, and I can lounge on the shores of Elliot
Bay at Myrtle Edwards Park. For a brief period during my teenage years,
I lived in a small town in South Australia that was right on the beach,
and until I found myself sitting on Elliot Bay's shores over the weekend, I'd forgotten how important a nearby body of saltwater could be to my personal sense of serenity.
Downtown from Kerry Park, with verification of Michael's yesterday assessment of the view of Mt. Rainier:
From the edge of Elliot Bay, with the Olympic Mountains in the background:
Alright. No more saturating my blog with proclamations of Seattle's summer glory. We just need to revel in it while we can before the winter months creep in with the clouds.