Matterpics

A rainy Saturday/Matterday in Seattle. But it's been a relatively warm winter in Seattle (no snow!) so it seems more like March than January ...

Forsythia cuttings are blooming inside:

Japanese quince is budding up in the back yard:

Red twig dogwood and Mexican orange:

Some quince cuttings I brought into the kitchen:

Our red poppy front doormat:

Interesting bumper stickers on our way to run errands:

Southcenter Mall in Tukwila (it's not all this outdated):

Taking my cue from J.D> Salinger's death, I decided to buy this book and re-experience it:

Cloudy downtown Seattle on the way back home:

The first place I lived when I moved to Seattle 15 (!) years ago (the building isn't red - it's the reflection of a notebook on the dashboard):

Great wine label:

Next weekend - the Garden Show. More pics then. And maybe I'll actually write something one of these days.

Best Quality.

Continuing my "video blogger" status as of late - a beautiful scene from The Joy Luck Club. 7:45 in length, but worth it - whether you've seen this (incredible) movie or not, you need to set up the talk between the mother and daughter.

Here's a tissue. You're welcome.

We Are Not A Lost Generation.

Sometimes you have to read from right to left, down to up. It makes all the difference.

Hope. Is. Good.

January 12 of 12

Via Chad, who says this is the last year of 12 of 12. I think there may be someone who will take over.

These pictures were all taken on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Rain. In January. Yaaay, Seattle.

Coming to work. Upstairs.

Leaving work. Downstairs.

Heading home. Dark.

Is there another kind? (This USED to be a theater, it's now a drugstore. May explain a bit..)

Waiting at a stoplight. The rain was causing my camera to focus on the window. That, or I'm not camera-smart.

Stoli's dinner. I always give her extra protein at night. She's getting old and frail.

And she snarfs it down. (Those dark spots on her back are water from all the rain).

Still life with wine. Don't mind if I do.

Hunter cat, bright eyes. (Every now and then he falls apart ... )

Dinner. Actually not bad for dried tortellini.

I think the original rules were that you had to have at least a partial picture of yourself in your 12 of 12 pics. Here's a scruffy exhausted Matterdays.

Happy 12 of 12!!!

Snowflake Forming

Cool, eh?