Up early, so I can get in to Seattle by 10 to visit Pearl, a former colleague who now lives in Hawaii. She flew in last night to visit her son and his family in Seattle. Getting to her took an hour, once I was in Seattle — but I got to see a lot of new places and experience the underground bus, which is sort of like a subway, but it’s a bus.
She and son David dropped me at a bus stop so I could go to the Space Needle, which I have yet to see.
Inside the Seattle Center, a gallery of Northwest artists:
I found the tile work on the Charlotte Martin Theatre interesting:
Some nice flowers (of the real type):
And some nice flowers of the (Chihuly) glass kind:
The flowers are nice; a visit to the exhibit is pretty expensive: around $19, so I looked from the outside.
The EMP Museum (according to its website, “a leading-edge, nonprofit museum, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture”), a huge, multi-colored, oddly shaped building:
Across the street I found more glass in a Science Center garage:
Afterward, I wandered back toward the area I knew in downtown. Lots of buildings are decorated. Several warehouses on the way in from Tacoma are painted. Because I got out of the bus too early on this trip, I was able to take a photo:
As I wandered around, I found this mural on a German car repair shop:
And some cool metal work on a building sign:
I passed along the Seattle Glassblowing Studio again.
Next stop: Vetri Glass to chat with Harlen and take a few more pictures, since I hadn’t posted any of its opening. I found Courtney Branam’s cubes cool:
And Mikey Cozza’s flowers and rain drops, too:
Finally, back to Tacoma, to get my luggage and catch the bus to the airport. My last night was at the Ramada Inn on International Boulevard (there are three with phones at the airport).
diane's fused glass 