Unexpected in September

This is the mostly street art edition of unexpected things. The street artists in Seattle seem to be very active lately and doing super cool things.


A PBR monster


Andre the Giant (I don't like The Princess Bride but I like this sticker. I know, I am pretty much the only person in the world who doesn't like that movie.)


An eyeball flower bud



A missing four and a half year old burrito unicorn named Pablo


A squirrel knocking over potted plants

On the border

The weather around here's been pretty weird lately. I thought we were moving steadily into fall but now we are getting some heat back and it's just warm and muggy and blah. I am ready for crisp fall days, scarves, hot drinks, the butternut squash bake I have been craving for months, everything pumpkin-flavored, trying new fall rustic desserts, crunching through piles of leaves.

Wilderness downtown

Just some photos around old Ballard. It's been nice to start exploring some areas I wasn't too familiar with before and the more I see the more I fall in love with Ballard.

I've really been enjoying Mike Sinclair's work lately, especially City Beautiful.

We used to wait

I seriously cannot get enough of Arcade Fire's new album The Suburbs. I was listening to it on loop for my long walk down to the marina. If you haven't heard it yet go listen. It might change your life.

My neck of the woods

For the last few Saturdays I've been helping my family build a shed on our Monroe property. (I'm starting to think of it as ours instead of my dad's now that I've put some work into it. Plus I received a fortune cookie that said "You will inherit and small piece of land" so I'm pretty sure it will be legally mine someday.) We still have a ways to go but I'm excited to get this thing built!

SF beach

Some more photos from the beach near the Sutro Baths. That giant camera building housed a camera obscura, which was unfortunately closed when I was there. I think camera obscuras are awesome.

Sutro Baths

Here is my favorite spot in San Fransisco: the Sutro Baths. It is the remains of an old swimming pool complex built in the 1890's and burned down in the 1960's. Now you can wander the ruins and climb climb up the cliffs surrounding them and pass through giant holes in the cliffs to see the ocean on the other side. It was so beautiful and a little bit haunting.

Also, I saw The Helio Sequence play last night and they were fantastic! You should check them out.

San Fransisco

So, it's been a long time. I was super busy in August with two short California trips and moving to a new place and things like that and somehow I stayed away from this blog for over a month and I've missed it! I've also been slacking on my photo taking and I miss that too. I'm glad I got to spend some quality time with friends and family and got some nice summer time activities in, but I hope to get back into my old routines: taking photos every day, blogging, reading, cooking. Those are constants I like to have in my life.







In early August I took a weekend trip to San Fransisco with three of my favorite people. It was a blast! The weather was all over the place, mostly foggy and windy but we had a few hours of beautiful sunshine. The hills reminded me of nightmares I have about driving, where I am driving up hills so steep I can't see the top and I eventually start rolling backwards. Luckily none of that happened in real life.

My favorite moments of the trip were when we were goofing off and enjoying delicious food together and there was plenty of both on this trip. We had an absolutely amazing meal at Mamacita, which included many margaritas, tamales, and the best tacos I've ever eaten. From their menu: "El Verano --- crispy vegetarian tacos with roasted squash, eggplant, green beans, cherry tomato & red pepper mole". Yum! I don't think I can go back to San Fran without going back to Mamacita.

I also loved wandering around and chowing down in Chinatown, shopping in the Haight Ashbury district, a fascinating photography exhibit at SF Camerawork by Jennifer Karady about Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans' experiences, and my favorite thing of all was the Sutro Baths. More on that later.