Bridges in Seattle

I was in Seattle over the weekend, and decided to walk to the train station this morning, figuring that I could work in a few bridges.

This is the I-5 bridge over the ship canal.

And this is, or rather was, the Alaska Way Viaduct.  Which is quickly turning into a pile of rubble. I was surprised to see them working on a Sunday.  But I suppose Snowmagedon threw a monkey wrench into their schedule, and they're trying to catch up.

Panel discussion

Another Bridge in Lan Su Garden

I took advantage of a sunny day in February to visit the Chinese Garden.

They haven't taken the lanterns down from Chinese New Year yet.  One of them even fell down when I was half-way through this sketch.

Vista Bridge

Met up with a bunch of sketchers, after getting a late start, and joined one of the groups huddled under overhangs to do the Vista Bridge.

Oregon Historical Museum

I maybe should have put off my visit, as the third floor exhibit was still closed.  (With a grand reopening this Thursday)  I wandered through the bits that were open and made a couple of sketches.  One was of a small statue of Tom McCall.

 And the other was of this historical artifact.  Which was absolutely fascinating to the visitors.  No one could resist fiddling with it, and discovering the reason that we say we 'dial' a phone.  And this is what phones were, for all of my childhood and some years beyond.  Heck, we were pleased as all get-out when our town finally got enough lines that we were no longer on a party-line with a family up the street.

SInging

Harmony singing circle at Friendly House

Winter Light Festival

Ran down to this year's light festival.  It was cold out, but not raining.  And not, heaven forfend, snowing.

I took the streetcar to PSU and wandered about, then walked to the World Trade Center to see what was happening there.  And then walked across the Hawthorne Bridge to see the installations around OMSI.  And then, thoroughly chilled, caught a couple of streetcars home.

This is actually a kid, asleep in her stroller.  She only looks like an adult cause I screwed up the proportions.

Concert

ViVoce: Together We Sing - Harmony Across Borders

A standard concert, with music from many lands, poems, and a couple of sing-alongs.

Fertile Ground

A staged reading of The Lindworm. Yet another dysfunctional family, with the husband being abused by the wife this time (even though he was twice her size).  All roiled together with folklore and fairy tales and witches.  Somewhere in the play the characters are assigned weapon totems - finding a weapon that matches their personality.  Sasha thought about a protective shield for himself.  But what he really could have used was a cloak of invisibility, to roll himself up and disappear from the world.  And the play itself?  Its weapon is a cudgel.  Cause it spent over an hour beating the plot into the audience, over and over again.  And would have spent another hour and a half doing the same thing, if I hadn't have left at intermission.