Category: families
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Early spring
It feels like spring already — it’s February! — and the flowers seem to agree. Our cherry blossoms have been enjoying the mild temperatures for a week or two now. Global warming is sad for the polar bears, but it’s pretty darn nice for the people in Seattle. The days are getting noticeably longer too,…
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Bill and Jenny’s new daughter
Bill and Jenny welcomed their new daughter home in October — an early Christmas present, Jenny says. Riley, now four months old, has already attended a cello concert and visited the art museum. She is a well-cultured baby for sure, and so sweet and utterly content. See those white socks warming her feet? Her parents say Riley…
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Merilee’s family
I met Merilee and her family at the Seattle Asian Art Museum for some family portraits. The courtyard was set up for an afternoon concert, but luckily no one was in the board room. We used available light from a big picture window. Like my family, Merilee’s family includes two sisters and a little…
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Mapplethorpe at the Henry
Provocative pictures will draw fame, or at least notoriety. I get it. In the ’70s and ’80s, Robert Mapplethorpe was trying to push buttons with his bondage pictures, but now the shock value’s worn off. (Visit the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and you’ll know what I mean.) Mapplethorpe’s Polaroid portraits in the Henry’s new show,…
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In her shoes
Chris gives me a hard time about my silly shoes, made for looking cute, not for walking. Pointy toes, pencil heels, four-inch platforms — I know they’re ridiculous, but I can’t help loving them. I saw these shoes at the Henry, and even I had to agree, they don’t look very comfortable. Woman’s stilted sandals…
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Discovery Park
Seattle was blessed with a beautiful fall Sunday, sunny and breezy, perfect for a walk. After living in the area more than four years, I visited Discovery Park for the first time. Chris and I hoped to spot a cougar, but the closest thing we saw was a lady in a WSU hat. A bald…
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Zig zag shadows
When the wife and husband team Weiss/Manfredi designed the Olympic Sculpture Park, they had to find a way to navigate across Elliott Avenue and railroad tracks. Their graceful solution is a walkway that zig zags over these obstacles. You can see the pattern from the air, and also echoed in the late afternoon shadows on…
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Morning light
I’m an obscenely cheerful morning person. (Hard to believe I worked the night shift for almost three years, when I’d regularly stumble home after 1 a.m.) I love watching the sun rise. First pink, then gold streaking into my kitchen.