Dancing up a storm

25 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Nothing gets people together like good music!

This is Seattle-based Squirrel Butter (Charlie Beck and Charmaine Slaven) performing at Pike Place Market … with some very happy kids dancing along.

Towering flower, night and day

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Space Needle, Seattle Center, night and day

Seattle. (March 2015 and April 2014)

How neat it was to see the glass flowers at Seattle Centre glowing at night! Captured the image on the left a couple of weeks ago. The one on the right was taken at the same spot during a beautiful spring day in April 2014.

Visual beacon

20 Friday Mar 2015

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This lovely sculpture stands on the edge of Portland’s Chinatown, toward the Pearl district.
Pretty under any light, it’s most striking as it was last week, bright red under a blue sky.

Taste of Cuba

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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This colourful mural in Portland, Oregon, fills the wall of a building that’s also home to a Cuban restaurant. The place serves one of my favourite mocha espressos, anywhere. The drink looks almost too pretty to consume.

Deconstruction

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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It’s not too hard to fill in the blanks for this piece of public art. Spotted on Portland’s east side last week.

Happy place

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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This cute building lives under the shadows of an elevated expressway that cuts across the northside of Portland, Oregon.

Courthouse critters

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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All around the Pioneer Courthouse in central Portland stand little reminders of the creatures that live beyond the city’s limits, out in the hinterland of Oregon.

Stockholm’s German Church

07 Saturday Mar 2015

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This is the German Church in the heart of Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s oldest quarter.

Open door on public square

05 Thursday Mar 2015

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This piece of public art near the Walt Disney Concert Hall frames Los Angeles City Hall across the Grand Park. Saw this on my visit there in the autumn of 2013.