changing face of fremont, seattle ....continued

 here's another one- I could have spent ages just documenting the loss of single family homes in this area- unfortunately for me I am too sensitive and were I to focus on this loss I would eventually succumb to many tears. Birth of the new highly compacted.
Seattle was my breath of fresh air when I arrived- ten years in London and four in San Francisco had overloaded me - moving here was amazing the space the green.
as Seattle grew and people packed into even my less popular area up in north seattle - it was suddenly not so fresh.
I left because I'd had enough growth and bigger , biggest, cramped, beyond cramped, quashed.
I will always love you Seattle but I think I a done with cities.

the changing face of fremont, seattle

The changing face of Fremont, Seattle.
My parents moved to Seattle in 1997 from Buffalo New York.
At that point Seattle became my second "Home" where I went on holidays when others went home.
Since that point I watched Seattle Grow - visiting yearly, training to be a yoga instructor here and eventually settling here with my little family in 2007.
Fremont was a very very diffrent neighborhood from the hip and happening bar scene you now see before you.
in the 90's it had industry, warehouses, lots of shops featuring local artist and craftspeople. Today the small houses you see above are disappearing fast the closer into Fremont proper you are.
This one will be destroyed very soon, if it hasn't already.
Make way for the huge townhomes compressed together, staring at one another, trying to get just that bit higher then the one built two months prior.
I photographed it before moving out to the kitsap Penensula where the pursuit of hipness does not feel so strong, Hallejuallah.

Old House now Gone

Found a few images that were not HDR'd although they were meant to be, I reckon circa 2008.
This home is now gone, it used to stand behind the Safeway lot on Greenwood , now it is no more.

The Fisher Flour Mill, Harbor Island, Wa

 Seattle News Article about Mill
KOMO News
Seattle Pi
How great would it be to have an artists studio up in any of those windows looking out over the interestingness of  man made Harbor Island and it's surrounds.
Walking through this area reminded me of those grain elevators in Buffalo I never photographed while serving my first 18 years of life, guess I hadn't planned on my folks relocating out and that Buffalo would always be a hometown.

Sunday Seattle explorations

 saturday was trapeze class for my other two family members. i stood amazed at what could be done on a trapeze in two hrs class time.
truely amazing, compared to what i have done in classes that took far longer and still only gleaned the surface, dancing around the subject rather then grabbing it by the horns.
Having been the one excited to photograph the event i did this.
Sunday i was granted some me time in a little Seattle exploration with my family of course.

Aurora Motel at 42nd, Seattle

 At 42nd street on Aurora sits this lovely motel, indicative of the area.
I am ashamed for having missed the tear down of the Thunderbird inn that was pretty close to this place.
Equally I am sad I didnt get to this one before the big assfence went up that blocked me from getting any decent photographs.
Aurora is a vast expanse of oddness.