Another Seattle urban vignette…with pictures
Didn’t shoot any fotos this particular day, but shot this of new development along Thomas Street from another sunny day from the 27th of February 2025 was much like today’s happy blue skies. A passenger jet heads south towards SeaTac.
Saturday the First of March was a glorious, sunny day towards the end of a strange, whiplashed Winter. Even texted my wife, Faithlyn, I was “Off the bus & walking to work. It’s gorgeous outside!”
“Enjoy!” She replied.
Strode east down and up Thomas Street thru the South Lake Union neighborhoods. Used to be called the Cascade area until wealthy developers changed everything up again before the Great Recession and the Covid Pandemic further disrupted and perturbed this part of Seattle. The distance from where I hop off the notorious E-Line down from Shoreline on 7th just off Aurora/99 to where I work at the Downtown Seattle REI store is about 3/4s or 4/5s of a mile long.
Passed Kati Vegan Thai restaurant and approached the local Cascades Pea Patch gardens and city park. A obviously homeless White man sat on a park bench in the sunshine. He’s twisted off to the side like a pretzel. Sigh. It occurs when an drug addict bent over in the “fentanyl fold” sits down. His buttocks were exposed. They glowed a bright clown red more from cold and chafing than from any sunburn. Seems so many “folded people” can’t keep their pants up. That’s why they often walk with their legs bowed out like a crab scuttling sideways to keep their britches partway up over their thighs. He’s loving the sunshine, tho. He’s sprawled crooked across the park bench sunning himself like a sea lion atop a rocky beach. Continue reading