Lewis & Clark Trip Day 32: Seattle II (6/8/2021)

Tuesday, June 8, 2021 (continued)

Seattle Center: John T Williams
Honor Totem (2012)

Museum of Pop Culture (2004, by Frank O Gehry) with the
Seattle Monorail running through it

A tree-shaded view of the Museum of Pop Culture

Another view of the Museum of Pop Culture,
which supposedly is inspired by broken
pieces of Stratocaster guitars

Typewriter Eraser, Scale X (1999, by
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen)

Grass Blades (2002, by John Fleming)

Water's Edge, Year's Round (2018, by
Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C Mace,
out of bronze)

Yellow leaves or yellow flowers?

Seattle Center: Olympic Iliad (1984, by Alexander Liberman)

Space Needle with its "hourglass figure"
is said to be a departure from the typically
phallic design of towers

Pacific Northwest Nation design utility hole cover

7th Avenue skyscraper canyon in Seattle

One of three plant-filled spheres at the Amazon
headquarters campus on 7th Avenue

Sleepless in Seattle type houseboats at the end of Shelby Street

Later, a walk in Magnuson Park, on the site of the former Naval Station Puget Sound.

Entrenched munitions bunker

Occupied Calypte anna/Anna's Hummingbird nest (KSS)

Psaltriparus minimus/Bushtit nest

Tyto alba/Barn Owl (KSS)

Unoccupied hummingbird nest

Successfully restored wetlands project

Anas platyrhynchos/Mallard mother and two ducklings

Rubus parviflorus/Thimbleberry

Lonicera involucrata/Twinberry berries (KSS)

Lonicera involucrata/Twinberry flowers

Jan's information board of native bird species found in the park

Mareca strepera/Gadwall Duck couple (KSS)

Sunset from Jan & Kirby's house, which has great views!

Many thanks to Jan & Kirby for plant and bird identification. Huge thanks for good company, good food, and a couple of good nights' rest!

Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 33.