Public Market Center

Signs at the entrance to Seattle's  Pike Place Market, sometime around closing at 5:30pm were bold and in-your-face - just like the cars.   (May / June 2007).

 

Claude, sans intelligence

 

Bold, brash and in your face, but better than the colour-scheme before this one.

Liminal light in Salthill

 

Ten minutes earlier,  I was definitely staying on the bus rather than hop off into the rainstorm.  Now, the sun is out.  

Mostly.  But I need to walk under those clouds. 

An elusive Western

 

It's very difficult to get a good photo of this hotel, which has a charm in how it blends architectural styles and pragmatic frontages.  Even today there was still scaffolding in place detracting from the interesting curved wall n on the left hand side.

A trio of lillies in the Square

Seaside coffee-kiosk with dramatic skies

 

This city-council owned seaside coffee kiosk is between licensees, but still enjoys dramatic sky-views:  fleeting moments of beauty at the intersection of nature and the built environment. 

Fleeting beauty - in a bookies office?

 

Today this betting-shop looked shiny, new and clean.  My "moments of fleeting beauty"-meter normally needs more than that!  But here and now, it pinged.

The sloped top that was added to the electricity cabinet outside helps!