![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
West Seattle walkies
B had a class at PCC in West Seattle today so I went along to use the time to explore.
The day was one of those clear chilly fall days where the air is milky with diffuse mist giving everything lower contrast than usual. I loaded my backpack with the necessities (laptop, book, purse (wallet, palm, camera, phone), water), and set out down the alley behind PCC. I spent the next two and a half hours just walking and looking, letting my feet follow my whim.
I went into a bike and snowboard shop and looked at bike stuff.
I stopped in an antique store, recently reopened following the owner's back surgery. The store was packed literally to the rafters (the ceiling was thick with merchandise hanging on string loops suspended from nails in the rafters) with stuff. And yet it was well organized. They had many old tools and I purchased a Miller's Falls hand drill (which I had to fetch down from its nail myself using a pole with a point on its end) which is probably three or four times my age and yet works nearly flawlessly. They really don't make them like this anymore.
I walked through an open house ($409k 2k square feet two story with full basement 3 bedroom, 2 bath on a busy street. Ouch.) and could have walked through many others, but decided to save the energy it takes to interact with bored real estate agents.
I talked to one dog and several kitties.
I saw squirrels and crows.
But mostly I walked up hills, down stairs, out and back dead end streets, along cliff edges, up stairs, down alleys, mostly on sidewalks. And I looked at houses and plants and trees and Puget Sound and the Seattle skyline and ferry boats and apartment buildings and stores and other people.
I finished my trek back at PCC and bought some crackers and calistoga and sat on a stool in the window waiting for B to get out of class.
We drove most of the route I had walked so B could see where I'd been, and that brought us up to 5pm when it gets good and dark here this time of year so we did a semi-random drive back through South Seattle to I-90 and home.
The day was one of those clear chilly fall days where the air is milky with diffuse mist giving everything lower contrast than usual. I loaded my backpack with the necessities (laptop, book, purse (wallet, palm, camera, phone), water), and set out down the alley behind PCC. I spent the next two and a half hours just walking and looking, letting my feet follow my whim.
I went into a bike and snowboard shop and looked at bike stuff.
I stopped in an antique store, recently reopened following the owner's back surgery. The store was packed literally to the rafters (the ceiling was thick with merchandise hanging on string loops suspended from nails in the rafters) with stuff. And yet it was well organized. They had many old tools and I purchased a Miller's Falls hand drill (which I had to fetch down from its nail myself using a pole with a point on its end) which is probably three or four times my age and yet works nearly flawlessly. They really don't make them like this anymore.
I walked through an open house ($409k 2k square feet two story with full basement 3 bedroom, 2 bath on a busy street. Ouch.) and could have walked through many others, but decided to save the energy it takes to interact with bored real estate agents.
I talked to one dog and several kitties.
I saw squirrels and crows.
But mostly I walked up hills, down stairs, out and back dead end streets, along cliff edges, up stairs, down alleys, mostly on sidewalks. And I looked at houses and plants and trees and Puget Sound and the Seattle skyline and ferry boats and apartment buildings and stores and other people.
I finished my trek back at PCC and bought some crackers and calistoga and sat on a stool in the window waiting for B to get out of class.
We drove most of the route I had walked so B could see where I'd been, and that brought us up to 5pm when it gets good and dark here this time of year so we did a semi-random drive back through South Seattle to I-90 and home.
West Seattle
(Anonymous) 2004-11-22 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)Anita Rowland (http://www.anitarowland.com/)