Three Georgetown Photos from This Weekend

Great Stuff Friday night:



Nine Pound Hammer Friday night:



Outside Pental Granite & Marble on Saturday:

Mari and Andrew's West Seattle Garden in July

Chuck visited Saturday, and we took him to Mari and Andrew's garden.

























Not my child. Someone else's.































Later that evening we went to Elemental for dinner and had...

Watermelon with garbonzo beans.



Crab, roe.



Roasted red pepper with smoked salmon cream cheese.



Beet hazelnut salald.



(Did I mention the wine pairings with each course and then some?)



Escargot and bone marrow crostini.



Salmon with cherries, grapes, and roasted corn.



Game hen with ratatouille risotto.



Lamb taco with pickled cabbage.



Cheese.





Panna cotta.



Apricot tart with ice cream.



Chocolate crepes.



Then we walked to Gas Works Park.

San Francisco

Golden Gate Bridge.



To the lighthouse. Point Bonita Lighthouse.











Back in town on Telegraph Hill.







Hanging out in North Beach.



What's in there?





In Vesuvio.

















Thanks for alerting me to this photo op, Chuck.



No longer in North Beach. Rectangles.



More rectangles.



Circles.



And more.



And a tribute to the folks who brought us the parking garage.

Elandan Gardens, Note About This Blog

I'm considering reviving this blog now that I've fallen into the routine of raising a baby and working full-time. I miss it.

To those of you who have been submitting comments, I'm sorry I don't get around to approving them right away. I have it set up so comments on posts less than a month old are automatically posted. But I was getting so much spam on older posts that I instutited moderation on those.

Anyway, here's an off-topic post. I've been showing Chuck B. around Seattle for a few days. Friday we went to Elandan Gardens in Gorst. He took photos of the bonsai, and for some reason I felt like focusing in on the moss and lichen. I forgot to bring my good camera, so these don't really capture the place. Next time.







Elandan is located on an old garbage dump near the Bremerton Naval Base. It's pretty much the perfect destination if you're into bonsai and battleships.

Tonoho Chul Park

I've been admiring cactuses in the Sonoran Desert. These photos were taken at Tonoho Chul Park in Tucson.

Belle & Wissell Vitrine

Let's face it, this blog is essentially on hiatus, for an indefinite time. I've gone back to work full-time and I still have that baby to admire.

But occasionally I'll still post relevant stuff, like this video of the beautiful window display at Belle & Wissell in Georgetown.



And a picture of the view from the Pac-Med parking lot.



And occasionally I'll post irrelevant stuff, like pictures of that aforementioned admirable baby.

More Zoning Questions

Since looking into the land use violations at 2510 Beacon Avenue South, I've wondered about other properties nearby. After all, the whole area is supposedly zoned Neighborhood Commercial 2 ("A moderately-sized pedestrian-oriented shopping area that provides a full range of retail sales and services to the surrounding neighborhood").

Including this property right across the street at 2507 Beacon Avenue South.



Hmm. It doesn't look terribly retail-ish. Does the lease sign explain that the business will have to be a purely retail one?



Nope. It's advertising the space as potential light industrial. Let's double-check to make sure that this warehouse building without a single window out front really is zoned NC2, or retail-only.



Yup.

I don't know what to think about this. I would love for the center of the Beacon Hill business district to be a dense retail area, and I do think zoning enforcement can help turn things in that direction. However, some buildings just don't look like they were meant to be retail spaces. I guess business owners are supposed to try and make retail work in these awkward spaces, or the property owners are supposed to remodel the buildings to better suit that purpose. I don't know.