Finale

Puget Sound from Lincoln Park
(A beach of big pebbles. Like walking on ball bearings)

Semi-completed Boeing planes on rail car

Ferry to Southworth

Faint Mt Rainer in the background
Football stadium in foreground

from West Seattle

after sundown

Vegetation

Pretty flowers in the mild climate

But what really struck me was the big thickets of blackberries

I picked a fair number of them even though the season was pretty much over.

If you look carefully you can see a spider web, which are all over the thickets.  The berries attract insects and the insects attract spiders.

I saw a lot of these big striped spiders. 

Spiderwebs are not just in berry patches

Pike Place Market

Gum Wall

The Wall is near the market

According to Wikipedia the tradition of sticking gum against the wall here "began around 1993"

Cannabis

Unlike Colorado, so far there is only one place with legal cannabis for sale in Washington. It's called "Cannabis City" and is south of downtown in an industrial part of town.

No crowds like this when I visited

It's a small place. No edible, no vape fluid, and only a little smokable for sale.

Much more numerous as medical marijuana clinics. To use them you need a license which costs about 100 bucks. Once you have one the product you can buy is quite a bit cheaper.

Ferris Wheel

When up with my host's family in a big ferris wheel over the harbor.

Seattle World's Fair

When I was a kid the 1962 Seattle World's Fair was a big deal. One of its big features was the "monorail" (a train with only one, not two rails) that was supposed to be the trend of the future.

At the station

There are two rails and two trains, but I think they only use one

Headed towards the Space Needle

Unfortunately, monorail trains turned out not to be able to go very fast (about 50 mph tops) so the idea never really took off. Now all that's left is a train that goes a mile from the old fair grounds to downtown Seattle. It's no use to anybody but tourists like me.

Space Needle

The other big deal at the fair was the Space Needle. I don't think it has much to do with space, but it is kind of the the Eiffel Tower of Seattle.

The Experience Music Project

 Also at the fair grounds is this building with pretty colored panels. It (The Experience Music Project) has interesting props from  Sci-Fi movies, and video and artifacts about native sons Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana.

Seattle Public LIbrary

Bigger building, bigger atrium, trippier design than Minneapolis Central Library

What about that "book spiral"? Fun concept, but crap functionality?
I asked a shelver. She shrugged and said she thought it was OK.

Fremont

Fremont is a happenin' neighborhood on the other side (i.e. north) of downtown from where I was staying (i.e. maybe 12 miles by bike).

The famous (concrete) Fremont troll ...

... lives under a bridge

... tourists love it

note the VW Bug in its left hand

Sunny day

Pioneer Square

History

Went on a "Underground Tour" of the oldest part of Seattle, Pioneer Square, next to downtown.

waiting to get in

 

cool carved wood bar

Victorian architecture

In the old days Seattle had plenty of wood but not so much steel. It needed pipes for sewage, so it drilled a hole in a log for this pipe.

Wooden pipe