Eff-Stop Local: Small-Radius Travel

City Geometries, the Odd Ruin, and Some Genealogical Burrowing

12.6.09

Quadruple Negative

Totem Lake, Kirkland, WA

Magnuson Park, Seattle

Port Townsend, WA

Beneath Boren Ave., Seattle

Posted by Sean Bentley at 10:20 PM

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T. June 15, 2009 at 10:31 PM
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