For some reason the exhibit at the Experience Music Project featuring Jimi  Hendrix has been haunting me, maybe it’s because the music of that era especially from the legends instantly takes me back in time. I think every generation has its’ musical anchor, the style that permantly marks our memories and our stories to the [...]

I failed to mention in my last post that one of the featured exhibits at the Experience Music Project was abut Jimi Hendrix. We spent way to much time riding our memories back to the Woodstock era especially when we heard "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze" and of course "Touch the Sky". In case you want [...]

Another amazing creation by architect Frank Gehry…Paul Allen’s monument to American music, his Experience Music Project. Unlike many of Gehry’s buildings this one is multi-colored and because of the materials used changing color as the metal develops it’s own patina. The metal panels pick upthe color of adjacent colors and surrounding structures to produce an [...]

Back in the ’60s visionary Landscape Architect Richard Haag was one of the early pioneers of land reclamation. In Seattle he helped reclaim a natural gas refinery , turning it into not only a park on Lake Union opposite the downtown but also a new kind of playground. His design called for keeping the refinery [...]

I didn’t get a chance to post these until now, we spent a little time in Pike Place Market. I had my first introto gourmet  coffee ( at the time anything other than Folgers) at the original Starbucks back int the mid ’70s. I was hooked ever since and even mail ordered my coffee when [...]

Yes I did!! A cold front came through today dropping the snow level to sea level…so there you have it Snow in Seattle in the Middle of April!!! Pin it

While many people seem to dislike the return of wildlife to our urban environments I actually enjoy it. We live in the middle of the city and regularly have visits from coyote, fox, hawks and even bald eagles.We also get almost daily visits by the neighborhood’s  resident deer herd. They have taken to munching on [...]

_uacct = “UA-1440788-3″; urchinTracker(); Only in Minnesota…8" of the white stuff fell March 31 to give us what will hopefully be the last time we will see see snow for this year!!! So April 1st I woke to a relative cloudless day and decided to get some different kins of winter shots..I went over to [...]

  _uacct = “UA-1440788-3″; urchinTracker(); Yesterday Al was at the Minnesota State Capital to announce his latest batch of endorsements, not the least of which was by  both Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. To read more about the event go to his site, his speech was nothing less than outstanding! [...]