Photos from Stellar Tonight

Lucretia the bartender, for whom I've sometimes been mistaken, told me to go take pictures of Tippi Hedren in the window.

Buggy: New Baby/Kid Store on Beacon Hill

Buggy is located on the west side of Beacon Avenue, about a block south of Galaxie, and is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Garden Bloom Day Photos (One Day Late)

My Gastronom

Today my memory was jogged of my year in Ukraine by this photo from Kiev (explanatory caption below).

Police officers in riot gear detain activists of Natalia Vitrenko's Progressive Socialist Party who tried to break a cordon of a rally to mark the 65th anniversary of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent Army in downtown Kiev on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007. The anniversary and calls to recognize the anti-Soviet partisans as World War II veterans has divided Ukraine, with the more nationalistic west supporting recognition, and the Russian-speaking east opposing it. Hostility runs deep because in the war's early years, the anti-Soviet partisans aligned themselves with the Nazis, seeing the invasion as a way to get rid of the Soviet regime. (October 14, 2007 -- Associated Press)

And I remembered that the grocery store in the background was my grocery store, the Centralny Gastronom on Kreshchatik. Here's a photo I took of it nine years ago, in more peaceful days.

Beacon Hill: No Great Shakes

According to a story in today's PI, it looks like Beacon Hill, Rainier Valley and the middle of West Seattle are going to be the best places in Seattle to ride out the next big earthquake.

Walking to Work

I walked to work today. I was headed for the tall black building.



It's no secret that people live in the greenbelt around Beacon Hill.



Saw this outside the Frye Art Museum. I like to think that it's been there since spring.

Nighttime Photos of Georgetown

Now that I have a fancy new camera, I am going to reshoot and repost pretty much every photo I've taken in the last year.

Old version, of a pinball machine at Jules Maes in June.



New version, from tonight.















Calamity Jane's. The first time we've come here since our friend Hamish's last night as bartender/server last Wednesday. His replacement -- the cool ex-Smarty Pants bartender who sort of looks like Z-Man from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls -- told us they're going to start having Sunday brunches on Oct. 21.

("It's all here -- love, rape, murder, dope, grass, abortion, suicide -- something for everybody.")