The best thing about summer is the long 16 hour days.
It allows time for me to spend late evenings at the beach
just watching the ferries and trains go by and
people watch. Simple pleasures at its best indeed.
Beautiful Dark Sunset
It took some time for summer to arrive, many evenings
had dark, gloomy skies which made for some
interesting cloud formations over Puget Sound.
I love the dark midnight blue.
Beautiful Orange Beach
Sunsets at Edmonds Dog Beach
Beautiful Interior Design
I couldn’t wait to post these images. This penthouse designed by
Michael Hsu has such a beautiful and whimsical attitude. Love it.
White leather walls, brushed bronze fireplace and walnut floors.
Simply elegant and the staircase with suspended steel platform
and the scaffolding beds, all creates a sense of playfulness+humor.
Beautiful Reuse
Where do old golf clubs go when they die?
Apparently they become a useful trellis for peas.
What a great example of creative recycling.
Beautiful Bamboo Forest
Random find in someone’s garden.
Beautiful (dog) Faces of Fremont
Dogs, dogs everywhere, every kind, size and shape.
Dogs really do rule the parade.
Beautiful Faces (People) of the Fremont Parade
I can’t even begin to describe the fabulous energy
that exudes this fair/parade. No two people are even
remotely similar.
Cyclists parading in birthday suit….hundred of them
Handmade parade floats made of recycled materials
and everyone dressed to kill.
Fremont’s version of playing dress-up
Beautiful Eulogy to a Cafe
One of the plights of urban neighborhoods is change
which means some businesses survive and some die.
Especially when it comes to old cafes. The scruffier
version of the B&O is MIA on Capitol Hill and before
that was the Still Life Cafe in Fremont. Many moons
ago it was my favorite haunt along with the B&O but
alas it no longer exists. But I did capture this
wonderful mural as a tribute and it’s nice to know
I wasn’t the only one missing it. It reflected the older.
grungier, friendlier, and cheaper side of Fremont.
Still Life Cafe Mural
Beautiful Sculpture
More images from the Fremont Fair.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE, may all days
be sunny, happy, and long…
And of course the famous (or perhaps infamous) Fremont Troll….
Beautiful Mural
I spent the weekend perusing the Fremont Fair+Parade.
For those of you who don’t know about it you will
by the time I finish todays posts. I’ll start at the
beginning. I like to park a fair distance away
from my destination because
a) I get to see all the wonderful micro sights
I would miss if I didn’t and
b) I love to walk.
First up is the wonderful wall mural along a concrete wall
walking down to the fair. It’s a cartoonish play off the
Fremont Neighborhood cafes and icons.
Fremont, otherwise known as The Center of the Universe,
is an awesome place to hang out on any day.
Not anywhere near Kansas…and dogs rule.
Mural is a block long and run under an overpass.
Colorful version of “Waiting for the Interurban”
Across the street is a wonderful series of painted posts
creating a colorful rhythm.
Beautiful Musings 