Fall Is Here

Its has been a long time since the last post. Summer has ended and school has begun and all my time has disappeared and now its the end of October. Anyway, last week I was in Seattle for four days to look at built projects around the city. Here are a few pictures to share. We stopped at the Cedar River watershed education center first. It is a really fun place for kids.


These are drums that are arranged in a circle and water drops fall at timed intervals so different songs play.
This is freeway park which is built over top of I-5 in order to connect residential downtown with financial downtown. This small corner of the park just looks like a ridged feature with some small waterfalls but when you get closer you can actually climb down about 30-40 feet. Notice the small waterfall in the middle of the picture.


Same waterfall just close up. It was so loud down in here that you couldn't hear yourself talk.
There are stairs and overlooks throughout the feature. The next picture is taken from where the girl in blue is standing.Behind this waterfall and grate is I-5. You can watch cars go through but I missed it the first time through because you can't hear the traffic.

On Friday we went over to Bainbridge Island to the Bloedel Reserve. The whole reserve was pretty amazing with planned views and perfectly placed flowering trees. This picture is of the meadow and storage barns.A japanese maple marks a path down to the creek.The lake was completely still so the reflections are amazing. The whole place was pretty quiet, it was like an English painting or manor.
Down in the forest there were massive stumps that were logged decades ago and now seedlings have sprouted and grown into trees.

This is a fountain, the International Fountain I think, at the Seattle Center that is timed with music. We sat and watched this thing for half an hour and still didn't see all the different types of sprays.