As much as I love a good excuse to dress up, my favorite costume idea turned out to be just way too much trouble for me to pull off as I couldn’t really figure out the prep due to rains and the fact that I wanted to wear it to work but Halloween is actually on a Sunday. But I figured someone must’ve done it so I did a web search and sure enough, someone did in fact make themselves a piece of Lichtenstein art. Check it out, via Charmed:

Is it July already? Sure wouldn’t know it given the weather. But while it may not be the most spectacular summer for us people, the plants are loving the extra rain. The image above was taken while walking through my new neighborhood in Seattle where people love wild and crazy plants in place of the boring lawn in the strip between the sidewalk and the street. I only had my phone on me at the time of walking around and admiring the various creative things people have chosen to plant but I’ll go out again with my real camera and capture a good smattering. There are some great little urban gardens as well.

Speaking of the “new neighborhood in Seattle”, that’s why the blog has been fairly dead lately. It was a crazy packing and moving up from the Portland area but then extra crazy when the first location (and landlord) in Seattle was rather less than awesome and I ended up moving again to my current location. Luckily the current house is fabulous and I think I’ll be here for awhile. I’ve only been in the new house for a week so things are still a gigantic sea of boxes but soon I won’t be spending my spare time unpacking and I can instead enjoy some quality time with my laptop and get back to finishing the long list of drafts I’ve got piling up.

Have a happy 4th everyone!

The picture above is of the sheet metal panel covered organic walls of the Experience Music Project building by Frank Gehry. I shot this will walking through the Seattle Center on my way from Queen Anne to downtown during some amazing sunny weather in my soon-to-be new home. That’s right, I’m in the process of moving up North to the Emerald City!

Posts lately have been spotty and few while things have been a bit busy over the last couple months but once the move is complete and I’m sitting happily in my new home in the Greenlake neighborhood, things will return to normal. Till then, posts will likely continue to be spotty but look forward to more posts coming out of Seattle on a regular basis very soon!