seattle continued

what is the tree with these weird berries?! fascinating. they start green then turn red and they are cherry sized and orange inside and look sectioned/bubbled with a little dot for each section. they are everywhere!

it is a dogwood! i am amazed! who knew!?!
(sandbox's tree expert emeritus, that's who)

helpful treebert

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1258/1362402135_a2ea2fe495.jpg

that looks like a piece of futuristic lego

really awesome today

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/IMG00028-20091009-1752.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/IMG00030-20091009-1835.jpg

did you know?
metropolitan market carries salumi's mole salami.
trouble!

nicepix

here are the 'best bars in seattle' according to molecular mixologist jamie boudreau, whose drinks i would like to drink but he makes them at 'tini bigs' and that name just makes me feel like not going.

i have been to 3!

i met the mother of the owner of tini bigs. she gave me her card. it said MOTHER OF THE OWNER
srsly
musical theater ppl hang out there, tha'ts all i know and enough knowledge that i've never been

oh lol i remember you telling me about that!

his blog is really great, though. and i saw a video of him making a 'rosewater rickey' that made me want to go and watch him making drinks for hours.

but yeah, even though i walked past tini bigs like 300 times in the past 2 months, i could never bring myself to go in!

Lots of sounders fans on my bus: missing u, jergs!

wow WOW tehersa are you hearing this thunder?!

so big and LOUD!!!

lost power, torrenting, super flashy and rumbly!!!

it was wow!

i thought it was the bus overhead lines at first and then BOOOOOOM!CRASH!!!!FLASH!!!!

i did not lose power, though.

I didn't hear any of that last night, but this morning around 7 there was a HUGE thundercrash! I thought at first it was a train wreck!

i heard that too! thought it was gonna start all over but there was just the one.

it was the loudest thunder i ever heard, i think, and maybe also the longest.

more great cracking thunder this evening!

so rainy! and windy! my umbrella took a beating :( good thing i had a hood :)
someone told me seattle ppl don't use umbrellas anyway, is this true?

eh, some don't, some do. people who make that generalization are talking out their asses.

i would use one anywhere it was raining.

Mr. Jaq is an umbrella guy whereas I'm a hat person.

i use umbrellas and i dont even live in seattle!

hey lxy how do you pronounce umbrella?

why yes, i do. i pronounce it like the educated, cultured, refined southern gentlewoman i am.

does that mean you say um-brella?

:)

<3

i didnt know lxy was from "the south"

lxy is belle.

i wish she was in "the south"ern hemisphere.

i take um-brage at mispronunciation

not really though ; )

@max: i am relieved you're not questioning my claim that i am an educated, cultured, refined gentlewoman
@estela: thank you, i wish so, too
@harbl: lol u funny

yesterday i walked in the rain with my sister, also an educated, cultured, refined southern gentlewoman. we carried, and referred numerous times to, our (properly pronounced) UMbrellas.

i refrained from telling her about this debacle so your reputations are preserved.

hooray for laurels <3

if yall gonna lez out im gonna be sorry to miss this fap

that was not okay. blame the kava.

tsk

hi from fijiji!

come dancing, jergs!

there will also be soup, at a later date.

candyland :)
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs005.snc3/11239_188768256588_506836588_3146867_7467506_n.jpg

revisited the sculpture park yesterday and actually felt like i appreciated (most of) it for the first time. i think the difference was lighting. sun = colors and shadows that kind of bring the pieces into their own a little more.

also, if you have not visited the vivarium (the little greenhouse thing) you definitely should because it is amazing and contains a nurse log from tacoma (i think?) and is quite a cool little system to look at!

the way the shadows were working here reminded me of making prints of leaves with solar paper as a kid.
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9598.jpg

have also never seen this work before!
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs005.snc3/11239_189916411588_506836588_3156700_7656324_n.jpg

neat! me neither

love that log w/ its own lil greenhouse