Seattle Walks Part One
Seattle has some of the most beautiful urban scenery I’ve ever encountered. While it has nowhere near the beautiful and historical architecture of older cities or the grand modernism of bigger ones, it completely makes up for that with its terrain. Being such a hilly and rainy city, the landscape is packed with nooks and crannies and precipices, often with gardens and houses tucked almost invisibly in between. In some places the only way to get to a house from the street is by a series of staircases and boardwalk like structures that span the hills.
Since Sasha and I got our new digital cameras last Christmas, we’ve made a habit of occasionally walking through parts of the city near our apartment taking hundreds of pictures landscape, plants, houses, and other things that make this city so gorgeous.
This gallery is the first in a series comprised of my favorite pictures from such walks. This set is the first half from a walk we took in early January 2006. We started from our apartment in Eastlake which is right on (and I mean right on) I-5 which separates Eastlake from Capitol Hill. We walked under the highway and up a very long public stairway that cuts most of the way up the side of the hill after which we took a loop though the neighborhood south of Volunteer Park and came back.
A very long stairway
Photo by Michael Boyle
Winter garden planters
Photo by Sasha Kopf
House on a hill
Photo by Michael Boyle
Sasha photographs rose hips
Photo by Michael Boyle
Rose hips
Photo by Michael Boyle
House and landing from above
Photo by Michael Boyle
Red witch hazel
Photo by Sasha Kopf
View from even higher
Photo by Michael Boyle
Fern
Photo by Michael Boyle
Bark
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Multi-leveled garden
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Dried leaves
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Lake Union
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Fluffy pod things
Photo by Sasha Kopf
More fluffy pod things
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Moss on bark
Photo by Michael Boyle
Web
Photo by Michael Boyle
Cathedral complex house
Photo by Michael Boyle
Wrought iron fence
Photo by Sasha Kopf
School buildings
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Pealing bark
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Red sticks
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Winter flowers
Photo by Sasha Kopf
More winter flowers
Photo by Michael Boyle
Dogs
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Moss
Photo by Michael Boyle
Pods
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Moss covered stairs.
Photo by Michael Boyle
Moss between bricks
Photo by Michael Boyle
Moss between bricks again
Photo by Michael Boyle
Buds
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Rose entwined fence
Photo by Michael Boyle
Pealy bark
Photo by Sasha Kopf
Valve
Photo by Michael Boyle
Courtyard
Photo by Michael Boyle
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Comments (2)
On October 14, 2006 7:30 AM,
Comment by Kathryn Boyle:
I loved this photo essay. You and Sasha take wonderful photos. I look forward to more installments.
Thank you.
On October 14, 2006 3:12 PM,
Comment by Michael Boyle:
Thanks! I'm really proud of this gallery for another reason: It's the first one that I've published using a new system that I wrote in php to automatically format the gallery and the viewer. I'll write more about that at some point soon, but it's the first time I've written a web app like that, small as it is, and I think it came out quite well (although I do still have to tweak some things).