Seattle Urban Landscape

Paeonia veitchii (Veitch's peony) is one of my favorite peonies. I love the flowers & the leaves. It's a species of herbaceous perennial peony. It grows to about 30 inches ta...

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April 2018 June 2018 July 2018 Paeonia mascula is my favorite peony. I've always preferred single peonies to those with big balls of petals. Single peonies & species peonies ...

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Photos taken in May 2018 West Seattle Junction, Alaska Junction, or the Junction are the names used for the business district centered on the intersection of Califo...

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Photos taken in June 2018 Fremont Peak Park is a small park in the Upper Fremont neighborhood of Seattle at 4357 Palatine Ave N, near the top of Phinney Ridge at its so...

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West facade from S Mt Baker Boulevard West facade Southwest corner Southwest entrance South facade Detail of ornamentation Northwest entrance.  Photos taken in 2018 Franklin...

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The Weyerhaeuser headquarters, offered for sale in 2020. The old information kiosk, now gone. Photos above taken in 2017 Photos above taken in 2018 Occidental Square (...

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Photos above taken in 2018 Photo taken in 2017 King Street Station was built between 1904 & 1906 using concrete, granite, & brick.  The structure was financed by Jame...

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South facade West facade with the Smith Tower.  Photos above taken in 2018 with the Pergola with the Totem Pole. 2 photos above taken in 2014 The Pioneer Building is located at 60...

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  Photos above taken in 2014 Photos above taken in November 2018 The Smith Tower is oldest skyscraper (38 floors, 469 feet) in the city.  Built between 1911 & 1914, it...

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The Pioneer Square Pergola was built in 1909 as cable car stop. In January 2001, the iron & glass structure collapsed when it was hit by a truck. It was replaced in August 2002. The ...

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California State Capitol Neoclassical California State Capitol main entrance. Compare this to the classical Roman temple below (Maison Caree in Nimes, France ) also copied from the Greek ...

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Steel Bridge, a local landmark seen from Old Sacramento Waterfront. Photos taken in April 2018. Click here for more photos of Old Sacramento . From my travel journal ...

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Photos taken in April 2018 Click here for more photos of Midtown Sacramento . From my travel journal on 4-13-18: We went for dinner at Jack’s Urban Eats in Midtown, the...

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Photos taken in April 2018 From my travel journal on 4/14/18: We drove to the Old Sacramento City Cemetery, part of our tour of Sacramento. It was beautiful. I had never se...

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Photos taken in April 2018 Click here for more photos of UC Davis Arboretum . From my travel journal on 4/14/18: We drove to Davis, a city 17 miles west of Sacramento...

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Photos taken in April 2018 Click here for more photos of Oak Grove Regional Park . After breakfast at the motel in Sacramento, we drove to Oak Grove Regional Park in ...

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  Cercis occidentalis (Western Redbud) Cercis occidentalis (Western Redbud) Photos taken in April 2018 Click here for more photos of Merced Wild and Scenic River . Fro...

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Hetch Hetchy Valley below the dam O'Shaughnessy Dam Water flowing from the dam Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (more than 300 feet deep) Digger pine cone (Pinus sabiniana) South rim of th...

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Photos taken in April 2018 Click here for more photos of Tuolumne Grove . On 4/12/18, we drove to Tuolumne Grove at an elevation of 6,000 feet. It was cold, but not ...

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El Capitan Half Dome Mirror Lake Half Dome Merced River Photos taken in April 2018 Click here for more photos of Yosemite Valley . After spending the night in Modesto,...

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Black oak trees Grenadier Pond Ducks Grenadier Pond Hillside garden Black oak savannah Black oak savannah with birch trees. Photos taken in October 2017 On Monday October 23...

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Photos taken in October 2017 On Saturday October 21, we got breakfast from McDonald’s very near our hotel. We stayed near Bloor-Yonge subway station, a convenient place for ...

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Photos taken in October 2017 The Distillery District in Toronto is an amazing restoration & reuse of Victorian industrial buildings.  There are restaurants, and shops...

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Photos taken in October 2017 Riverdale Farm is at the east edge of Cabbagetown in Riverdale Park West. It's certainly worth a visit when you are touring charming Cabbageto...

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There is a small business district along Parliament Street. Photos taken in October 2017 I thought Cabbagetown was charming, with very well-preserved Victorian houses.�...

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