On Thanksgiving Eve of 2014, I'm thankful for is the chance to appreciate my neighborhood as I walk to work. Fall in Seattle is mostly wet, gray, and dark, but also colorful.
Garage door sliders.
© Dan Gebler 2014
Big city, small roads.
Phinney Ave. N.
Outisde Roxy's.
I love this strip of buildings on N. 36th St. where most of the signage is hand-painted. Also, the High Dive stays true to the Seattle tradition of neon signs to cut through fog and mist.
This statue of Lenin has stood for sale here since the end of the Cold War.
As the self-proclaimed Center of the Universe, we keep a rocket handy.
The ship canal separates Fremont and Queen Anne.
Our bridges over the canal and Lake Union. The taller is officially the G. Washington Memorial Bridge, but I've never in my life heard anybody refer to it by that name. It's the "Aurora Bridge" or "99". The Fremont Bridge in the foreground is one of the busiest bascule drawbridges in the world; it opens more than 1,000 times per month for boat traffic. It's also in the process of being repainted.
The 'Burke' facing west toward Lake Union and Capitol Hill.
My workplace has a commuter benefit for kayakers, because Seattle.
99.
Happy Thanksgiving
