Seattle

Pike Place Market.  Doug says we have to do it all.  We moseyed through the market, up and down, food stalls, crafters.  Found a couple of tasty morsels.  Wound our way to Pioneer Square, the original city site with restaurants and some galleries. Toured the Klondike National Historic Site.  Seattle was a departure port for the Klondike gold rush in 1897.  One of the 'stampeders' was a fellow named Nordstrom.  He made his money and returned to open a shoe store--the rest is history, as they say.

Visited a couple of galleries one of which is Glassworks where they were blowing glass.  The artisan was fashioning a fish, a realistic looking salmon.  Another gallery (Davidson) featured the work of John Grade who used wood salvaged from a sailing vessel that sailed from Seattle to San Francisco in the nineteenth century.  The ship had reached a point of disintegration that it couldn't be restored so the artist was invited to use what he could for an installation at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.  John Grade, "Core", Wood and resin, below

As we were leaving the galleries and passing an alley, I spied some thing on the brick wall...you be the judge.  Art or trash.  Or does it depend on the setting, gallery or street.  It sort of looks intentional to me...