Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Colorful Vintage Glass Teardrop Jewels

vintage 1960's West German transparent glass rainbow teardrop jewels on watercolor paper

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty.

There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

~Robert Motherwell

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Windswept Pines on the Pacific Coast

...windswept pines on the Pacific coast...

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Daisies and Driftwood at Discovery Park, Seattle

daisies and driftwood, Discovery Park, Seattle

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,

A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

~William Bliss Carman

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, International Fountain at Seattle Center

International Fountain, Seattle Center

celebrating the arrival of summer in Seattle, finally :)

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon;

to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

~Henry James

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Crocheted Scarf With Vintage Crystal Glass Beads

crocheted scarf, glorious Noro yarn paired with

vintage Japanese crystal beads, shaped like little fir trees

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette,

which provides the meaning of life and art.

 It is the color of love.

~Marc Chagall

 

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Sunflower

(sunflower with bee, our garden)

Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.

~Eugenio Montale

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Grains of Sand

...beach at Seaside,Oregon...

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand

there is the story of the earth. 

~Rachel Carson

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Sunset on the Pacific Coast

...sunset at the Oregon coast...

The setting sun, and music at the close,

As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,

Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

~William Shakespeare

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Wisteria at the Japanese Garden

wisteria, Japanese Garden, Seattle

Perhaps it is possible

to be gentle no matter what, to seek not restraint

but surrender entirely, to turn

from the snarling reproach not into the keening

dismissal of hope but to whatever bright

fluttering is next, the bright fluttering

of wisteria petals...

- From "Fuschia" by Charlie Smith

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Shakespeare at the Troll, Fremont

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts...

~William Shakespeare

Remember a few Mondays back, the car crushing troll that lives under the highway in Fremont,

Center of the Universe, Seattle?

It is home to one of Seattle's summer Shakespeare Festivals, "Shakespeare at the Troll", this year presenting "Shakespeare's Greatest Hits".

Here you see a little trouble (Macbeth)...

And a little murder (Titus Andronicus)....

And a little love (Taming of the Shrew)...

And lots more love (Romeo and Juliet)...

Four wonderfully talented actors, including our incandescent daughter Emma as Juliet, are sharing their talent every Saturday and Sunday.  Saturday shows at noon and 2 pm, Sunday show at noon until July 11. At the Troll, in Fremont. Come and enjoy!

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Pink Poppy

poppy, from our garden

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Emma's Rose

Officially called "Sheer Bliss", but known at our house as Emma's Rose, in our garden

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows

Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, the Fremont Troll

Car crushing Fremont Troll, who lives under the highway in

Fremont, Center of the Universe, Seattle

You will hear more about this troll, later...

To travelers! Enter if you dare!

Through these windows you may peer

This realm exists for all to share

A gift to hold so dear!

~from The Library Troll, by Theo van Joolen

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Mountain Majesty

(approaching Steven's Pass, east of Seattle)

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.

~Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go!

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Columbus' Ship La Nina

(replica of La Nina, Columbus' ship, on Lake Union)

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

~Christopher Columbus

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week

(Skagit Valley tulips)

And tulips, children love to stretch

Their fingers down, to feel in each

Its beauty’s secret nearer.

~E. B. Browning—A Flower in a Letter.

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week

(white camelia, Japanese Garden)

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

~ William Carlos Williams

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week

(view of downtown Seattle from a point near Alki beach, the original landing and settlement site)

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. ~Plato

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week.

(spectacular bird, Woodland Park Zoo)

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,

still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

~Victor Hugo

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week

("For Children Only", Woodland Park)

The world is a playground and life is pushing my swing.

~Natalie Kocsis