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I love having a hummingbird feeder on my deck. At least 3 hummers dine at Steve’s Hummingbird Café. I frequently try to photograph them … and fail to get good pictures. However, one hummer obliged me a few days ago by hanging out on my windchime hanger/hummingbird perch* for several minutes and remaining fairly still. […]

The Boyfriend and I drove to the Mount Baker Neighborhood, parked the car, and took a stroll. We started at the intersection of S. Mt. Baker Blvd. and S. McClellan St. and headed south (I think) along Mt. Rainier Dr. S. We continued along Hunter Blvd. S., then west down to 37th Ave. S. From […]

As pleased as I am with them for introducing me to John Lautner (see this post), I’m also annoyed with them today. I saw this article/link on the NYT site: Stalked: A Decade on the Run. My first thought was, “Scary. Must be about some man who’s stalked a woman for ten years.” Then I […]

Amazing find #1: The architecture of John Lautner, which I found about thanks to my daily e-mail from the New York Times. This link goes to the story and this one goes to the slideshow. “Bonding Humanity and Landscape,” the (partial) title of the article, is an apt description of Lautner’s vision and talent. Amazing […]

Best. Coffee. EVER. I read about cold-brewed coffee last year in the New York Times (Iced Coffee? No Sweat, 06/27/07). It sounded amazing. When I stopped at my favorite Caffe Fiore the next day, I asked if they offered or were planning to offer cold-brewed coffee. The barista told me they were planning to offer […]

I found this somewhere on the Internet: The 20 saltiest foods in America. According to the msnbc article, the saltiest food in America is the Chicken Portobello from Romano’s Macaroni Grill: 66 grams of fat; 1,020 calories; 7,300 milligrams of sodium. The saltiest burger (#17 on the list) is the 2/3 lb Monster Thickburger from […]

I spent a fun, mostly sunny Saturday in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood with my friend K. Our stops included Flying Apron [vegan, gluten-free] Bakery, Ophelia’s Books and Burnt Sugar. Ophelia’s: The sign looks like an open book (that accounts for the “Clever” tag for this post). It’s more obvious from the other direction, but I would […]

(Things that sound dirty, but aren’t.) “Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food” in the Feb. 29, 2008 New York Times is about the Global Vault. The vault is a high tech, high security storage facility for all kinds of seeds from collections all over the world. The seeds are being stored […]

See the ivory hellebore flower in the background of two of these photos? I’ve had that one for a couple of years, and it’s been in the same pot for at least a year. I was surprised and happy to see the magenta hellebore buds spring up this year. I’m not sure where the magenta […]

One of the things I love about living in Seattle: going to a beach on a sunny, late winter, almost-spring day, walking past evergreen trees, seeing beautiful blue water in the foreground and snow-capped mountains in the background. Matthews Beach offers that view. Both a park (9300 51st Ave. NE) and a neighborhood, Matthews Beach […]