Pike Place portals

November Walks

Ghost signage, Seattle viaduct

Shadows, Wayne Morse Park, Eugene OR

Ferry deck, Puget Sound

Coulon Park, Renton WA

Crows, Renton WA

Holiday Backstage

This weekend, the neighborhood's annual holiday bazaar materialized briefly in the vast space once occupied by the Red Apple grocery. I was there in the early hours before the throngs showed up to shop for jams, candles, scarves, greeting cards, jewelry, and other mostly locally produced gifts. As always, I was more entranced by what lay behind the scenes, in the bowels of the old store: vacancies within the larger vacancy, relics of commerce.

And a Duct Runs Through It

What the tourist guides don't show you, backstage at the Pike Place Market.