You can never get enough Christmas Lights and now that Christmas in Seattle is over until next year I am sending Christmas 2007 off with a BLAZE of Lights!
Here is a Georgetown Home all aglow....
Lastly...a Wallingford Home alight with Christmas Cheer!
Hoping your Christmas and Holidays were bright...and to all a good night!
Last week for Friday Photo I wrote that it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas.... Well, the next day on Saturday, December 1st we had snow! Not our average December weather.
Since I did not have an Open House that Saturday, I decided to take the day off to go shopping with a friend for Christmas decorations. We had snow flurries at University Village, and when we went to the West Seattle Target there was lots more snow.
Afterwards we drove along Beach Dr, then Alki and back to Seattle, the snow was lovely!
Tomorrow is December first and we are off to a great start for the Holiday, the weather this past November has been wonderful with many sunny days (Thanksgiving was glorious!) and the weatherman is predicting a bit of snow for the first day of December! So it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Seattle...
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I'll be looking for all my favorite places in Seattle for Christmas lights in the weeks to come!
On Wednesday, Halloween late afternoon, I was leaving one of the houses I have listed for sale, after re-stocking it with flyers, and came upon this Scary, Haunted House nearby....
This home was really decked out with a lot of imaginative touches (the mailbox reads "City Morgue") there were three witches out in the front yard with a smoking cauldron, the garage was set up like this....
and the music playing was Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, very dramatic! The couple who live here even had posted by the front door, photos of past Trick or Treaters in costume so everyone who stopped by for the "funeral" fun could see the cute and scary Trick or Treaters from Halloweens past.
You gotta love Seattle Homeowners who really get into the "Spirit" and create such imaginative displays for their neighborhood's children (and their escorting parents) who go out Trick or Treating!
The gray days we've been having vanish and a sparkling Sunny October Day appears, and this red sailboat takes advantage....
Driving with a friend on Alki Point in West Seattle we spotted this red sailboat sailing Elliott Bay with Magnolia (and a large red bottomed container ship) in the backgorund. It's days like this that make living in Seattle a joy.
Last Sunday was a mostly sunny day, so late in the afternoon after my Open House in Montlake, I went for a drive through Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum to see some fall color and Wow...did I see color!
The Japanese Maples were glowing with color beneath the dark evergreens, just beautiful....
This week I stopped by the Interbay (the low point between Queen Anne and Magnolia) P-Patch to check out this year's bounty and spend a quiet moment before heading back to my office. It was glorious with flowers, fruits and vegetables with a heavy, sweet, earthy scent all around.
These flaming orange dahlias with their companion cannas are in the foreground with Queen Anne condos rising up in the background.
Seattle's skyline is beautiful, and a classic place to enjoy it is from Queen Anne's Kerry Park. From the park you look south to the Space Needle, Downtown Seattle and beyond to Mt Rainier (when the mountain is out!). Looking the southwest, you see Elliott Bay and West Seattle's Alki Point. If you watch long enough you can watch the Washington State Ferries crossing Puget Sound from Bainbridge Island and Bremerton to Seattle, as well as passing container ships, and sometimes even large cruise ships.
Boots, part of Hat n' Boots in Georgetown's Oxbow Park.
Originally these boots were the restrooms for a gas station a few blocks away at the corner of Corson Ave. S and E. Marginal Way. The gas station eventually closed down and soon neglect took it's toll. The residents of Georgetown began a campaign to save this kitschy, retro piece of Americana. Eventually both the Hat n' Boots were moved to the new park with a P-patch and playground. The Boots have been restored and the Hat is awaiting its return to glory.
Today I am beginning a new feature I am calling Friday Photo. I enjoy taking photos of Seattle when I am out and about, and would like to share them with you. Sometimes there may be a post that goes along with the photo, but most of them will just have a caption.
My debuting Friday Photo does have a story behind it. When leaving my office late last Friday night I was driving past a play-field near my office. As it was neat 9PM and dark the field lights were on and I saw an amazing sight glowing in the darkness...a field of Pink Tents!
The Pink Tents were for the Breast Cancer 3-Day, and were for the Walkers to overnight in during their 3-Day walk. I realized as I drove by what the tents represented, and what made it even more meaningful was that the last thing I did before leaving my office was to address a card to an Internet associate who is hospitalized for complications for her Breast Cancer.
I turned around to take a few photos, and just after I finished, the field lights went out for the night! The lights had lasted just long enough for me to see and photograph this extraordinary sight. I posted a photo and a note where my Internet associate would see it and know I was thinking of her, and to share with her this wonderful sight and all the people out there that are supporting her and all others fighting Breast Cancer.
Karen...I am thinking of you!
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