signs of spring

Somehow it's already spring in Seattle -- pictures from a recent walk from North Queen Anne to Fremont.

Seattle beaches

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Last weekend we visited a few beach-y areas in West Seattle, Alki Beach Park and Lincoln Park. The weather is in the lower 50s here now so it makes for good outdoor exploring. I am trying to finally fully heal my left hip, which I injured in the Grand Canyon in 2011, so for a couple of weeks I need to take it easy. Hopefully it does heal and I can hike more this spring/summer with gusto.
My x-ray from this Thursday:

weekend nature

This weekend was rainless and ~50 degrees (F) so we went to a few local parks, Discovery Park yesterday and the Seattle Arboretum. Here are a few shots of the mossy wonderland that is Seattle in winter, and other scenes from the weekend. More on Flickr.

walking in Queen Anne

These are some shots I took wandering around Queen Anne last week. There are some really cool houses and views to be had in this neighborhood - we haven't found anywhere we want to love more quite yet, but we still have a lot of exploring of the other neighborhoods around Seattle to do.

park, markets, and downtown

Part of a giant 'henry' mural on a house near our place.


Fossils and minerals for sale at the Fremont Sunday Market.


Puget Sound as seen from Carkeek Park.


A strange hut in Carkeek Park.


Inside.


A stoic balloon man at Pike Place Market. If only he could be as joyful as his balloons.


Waiting for a lunch table at Matt's at the Market.




Fossils for sale at Agate Designs downtown.






Some cool street art on a the wall of an old brick pathway in the market (leading down to Post Alley.)



Lastly, a video of the Donut Robot Mark II in action at Daily Dozen Doughnut Company in Pike Place Market. Look at that thing go!

As always, more images in my Flickr photostream.

today we saw some boats

Arctic Loon, the cutest boat.


Arden, a rusty, ye olde English-y boat.


Thor, the awesomest boat. It's like if brutalism was a boat.


Enterprise and Al Hana Leviathan II.


A handy SPECIES chart.

We walked along some piers at Fisherman's Termnial, off of the ship canal we live next to. We had a really mediocre dinner at a seafood place here but the boats made up for it. Especially Thor.