Seattle Parks

Have you ever noticed the colours of leaves and flowers in Spring. Especially on a clear day. It's as if Gaia has taken her brightest set of paints and splashed them infinitely carefully across a wall.

I have been complaining about the ability of my decrepit and rusty camera to capture this vividness. It's really an excuse to buy a new camera but if I did buy a new camera we would have to go without food. Someone famous used to buy books instead of food but he probably died of starvation whilst trying to eat his books.

I took these photos at the Washington Park Arboretum which is a gorgeous park on the only completely clear day in Seattle since recorded history.

During a ten kilometre walk in the Discovery Park the next day, due to poor planning we were forced to subsist off the land, eating wild raspberries and rose petals to supplement our meagre supplies of one small muesli bar and a mandarin each.








Seattle's skyline is dominated by Mt Rainier. On clear days like this as you sit on the 271 crossing the world's longest floating bridge across Lake Washington it's like a sculpted blob of Haagen Das Five vanilla ice cream sitting hugely on the horizon just waiting for you to head over and stick your teaspoon into it. Unfortunately there's no picture -I don't have a good zoom lens. I'm sure you can google for one.