Seattle Poor John Lucky Me

The end of our African months took us to Seattle Washington. It should have been miserable in our lovely Economy Comfort seats, the first leg of which turned out to not be comfort economy after all, but while John was full of meeting time, I was looking forward to reconnecting with old college friends Marilyn and Phil. So, ok, Seattle is amazing because of a surround sound of mountains, so I will get those out of the way. Though there were only two hours of crystal clear day, and Marilyn had to loan me all her warm clothes, and we have had a lovely time. These are some of the first set of mountains that we continuously saw on Bainbridge Island. Fun on the Ferry.

More mountains

These are called "The Brothers".

Mt. Ranier was only brilliant for 2 hours--just when I was working on internet in the room, but this wasn't too bad.

More brilliant mountains from Bainbridge Island.

The draw for this trip was not Roxie, though her cuteness pretty much surpasses all the humans.

Apparently, there is this famous wall near the port is just full of bubble gum. You might think this is art, or you might think this is disgusting. I lean to the latter. We did agree to be close enough for this picture.

I pretended like I own Roxie...Great friends beautiful island

So seriously, Marilyn and Phil are terrific, but with Roxie....hard to underscore the power of dogs.

These were fun birds in the water.

Not sure if I like red headed woodpeckers better than pileated woodpeckers, but this one was intense. And on the east coast you don't see many.

I have never seen this flower. Hope Judy can tell me more. It is apparently called a skunk flower.

It is pretty cool to be back in the Lord of the Rings---even in Seattle

John and Phil are pretty awesome.

There is a lot to see in Seattle, but we have enjoyed the less traveled scenes, and these locks are great. During salmon running season, you can see lots of them, of course we are not at the right time of year, but there is so much else to see (though we are freezing)

The railroad drawbridge. Thinking of how that works.

This doesn't look like much, but it is an Anna humming bird, and I have never seen one, Hard to get the pics because they move really fast because of the cold, but this is the best I got.

Wow-the old buddies get together--Diego and John. Great to catch up. So we have another 48 hours to go. I pray that Marilyn hasn't gotten sick of me, and am enjoying this meltdown from Africa. Infinitely, I feel badly for John who as usual is working his way though every day.