Unexpected in November

At first I thought a pet dog was looking at me through the fence.


This fantasy land car.


Snow is a pretty rare phenomenon in Seattle, but snow before Thanksgiving is really unexpected. I can't even remember the last time it happened. But it looks so pretty when the leaves are still falling and create a nice contrast of color against the snow.


I'm not sure why water was coming out of this hole but apparently there was quite a bit of it when it froze.

First snow

It snowed today! That's a pretty big deal in Seattle. Even a two hour commute home after work couldn't dampen my spirits. I love the snow. I especially love those giant flakes that float down so peacefully and if you catch one in your hand you can see its unique shape before it melts away. Today's snow wasn't like that, it was more like tiny icy flakes that blew around in a pretty intense wind, but I'm hoping we'll get my favorite snow later this winter. We are supposed to get lots of snow this year.

Also, don't you just love that purple sky that happens sometimes when it's snowing or about to start?

Slowish November

My new favorite thing right now is 8tracks, where you can make your own mixes and share them with others. I've been finding so much great new music and I love the mix tape format, so I finally got an account and created my own Slowish November mix.

Lunches at city hall

This is where I like to spend many of my weekday lunches. Our city hall building is full of cozy chairs and its walls are mostly windows so it's the perfect place to relax and read. It also has a really interesting view of the city, downtown streets busy with cars and pedestrians, layers of old and new buildings, and the ocean off in the distance. In the summer a farmers market sets up shop outside and the building often hosts free concerts. It's nice to have such an inviting public space nearby.

Fall/Winter

Just wanted to post a few fall-ish photos here. It's really starting to feel like winter and I don't like it very much. Fall is my favorite and I don't want it to end! But of course, it will end anyway. But I've got a few ideas on how to make this winter awesome. More on that later.

Indoors

Some food photos from this weekend. Justin and I cooked up some vegetable stir fry with tempeh and served it over rice with peanut sauce. It was awesome. We also baked up this little teeny molten chocolate cake we got from the farmers market which was almost as beautiful as it was delicious. It puffed up inside its little glass bowl and then collapsed into itself to reveal a molten center. Soooooo good.

Also this weekend we met up with Derek at the Crocodile for a free show which paired up Icelandic artists with Seattle musicians, which was a ton of fun. We absolutely loved Lay Low's music (check out By and By) so we went to see her again last night at the Tractor (which also happened to accomplish an item on my list!)

Fading light

I miss the days when I could come home from work and know I still had several hours of daylight left for possible photo walks. Now I need to rush out the door immediately after entering and I'm still fighting the sun setting. In a week or two there won't be much light at all when I get home: I'll go to work in the dark and it will be dark when I'm done. Yuck. So I'll have to get creative, maybe work on night photography, maybe take some shots of my daily life at home, indoors.

Unexpected in October

There weren't too many surprises in October, but here are a few unexpected things I came across during the month:

A doll head making a very creepy face


A bunch of faces looking at me in the RISD Art Museum bathroom


A hula-hooping road sign


The perfect spot for a bowling ball to rest