Category Seattle
Water lily
If April showers bring May flowers, the heat and sunshine of July bring water lilies. And oh, what a dazzling show they put on! I attribute this 100% to moving the pond from the spot next to the Japanese maple tree to where it now sits along the southern parapet. After going all last year […]
Fourth of July!
This might have been the best weather I’ve had in Seattle for the 4th of July. The morning was chilly and cloudy, but then the clouds cleared and it warmed right up and it was just about perfect. Justin and I hosted a small family barbecue with his parents and brother on the roof, and […]
Stolen!
At 10am today I unloaded groceries from my car. At 12:30pm I went back k down into the garage to leave for a wedding—only to find, well, nothing; an empty stall (that’s mine in the middle) and no car to be found! So I called the police to start the process of filing the stolen […]
First shot!
Part one of the vaccine is done! Flowing through my veins turning me into a hopefully (almost) covid-proof Spider-Man or whatever. Next one is scheduled for three weeks out. And I have to give credit to the folks at Virginia Mason hospital (who administered the vaccine clinic) and Amazon (who provided the facilities and logistics […]
Hiking and grilling and 75 degrees
This past week has been the best week of weather we’ve had all year so far. Day after day of clear sun—and sun in the Pacific Northwest is hard to beat. On Thursday and Friday I worked most of the day on my roof deck. Today we went on a hike to Bridal Veil Falls […]
Snow in Seattle!
It’s the most snow I’ve seen in seattle dine moving here seven years ago! A few days of lovely white, with the city basically shut down, and then rain to wash it all away before we could tire of it. Exactly the right way to do snow, in my opinion. And now we’re done for […]
Pasta and cake!
You only turn 71 once! We celebrated Carol’s with home made pasta and a show-stopper chocolate cake. Yummm.
Raclette!
Nothing quite like a raclette dinner—all the melted cheese and potatoes and cornichons and other grilled goodies. It’s convivial and delicious and over the years has become one of my favourite holiday traditions. We had planned to do a raclette dinner with Amy and Carol for Christmas but got derailed when Carol received inconclusive results […]
Fog
There’s nothing quite like a foggy morning. So much scope for the imagination, as Anne of Green Gables might say. Growing up where I did, fog for me was something I knew more from books and movies than real life. It was associated with magic and “other” places. So encountering it as part of my […]
Flowers in wintertime
Oh hellebore, you lovely thing. Exactly what’s needed to lighten the midwinter darkness.
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 