October 23, 2024
How would guess that I was in the Pacific Northwest? Would it be a horizon dotted with coniferous silhouettes, like a Bob Ross painting? Would it be the prevalence of drive through espresso stands and their foot-tall coffee cups? Or the grey? The wash of a cloudy web of gauze Read more…
October 22, 2024
This is it, the reason of my long journey West: The Hoh Rainforest at Olympic National Park. Though surrounded by the glorious Sitka spruce and Douglas Firs, this piece of surreal temperate rainforest beckoned me into its mossy arms. I was ecstatic that the sky was clear and the sun Read more…
File this under sublime. A tree suspended in air by eroding land digs its roots into… the air. It carries on the functions of a tree: growth, photosynthesis, other tree processes, including looking gorgeous for my pictures. Here’s a collection, including some by a slightly surly visitor to Olympic National Read more…
I wanted to treat myself to a gift for my birthday… one of my favorite things… a beautiful place. Olympic National Park on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsular has an abundance of all kinds of beauty. One can spend weeks in the range of landscape wonders in the park, but I Read more…
February 6, 2019
Old mix tapes. I took pride in naming my mixes. I had an original Jedi kid’s costume in my storage stash. And it fits. (Plus, looseleaf socks!) Remnants from the Pacific Northwest, when you could smoke in the bars. Lite Brite in my classroom, which the kids love playing with. Read more…
April 29, 2016
The Pacific Northwest is heavy. Such things I forget. Having no appetite (!) I barely nibbled on the Mighty Mofo at Chaco Canyon Cafe, A vegan Reuben sandwich with housemade seitan, sauerkraut, mustard, cucumbers & sprouts, served on a soft sourdough. And sprouts. In Seattle, wherever you are, it’s grey. Read more…
April 16, 2014
If I am going to pass through Spokane again, I’d have to make it worth my while. A visit to the zombie-themed donut shop with vegan options, Dawn of the Donut, was just the trick. The shop is in a stretch of storefronts outside of downtown. It’s innocuous location is part Read more…
April 14, 2014
Like I mentioned in my previous post, Portland is Vegan Heaven. The level of vegan eats available, both from all-vegan establishments and omni eateries, is truly daunting. Hours of operations helped me decided on Bob’s Red Mill Whole Grain Store, a outlet of sorts for Grain God Bob that serves up Read more…
October 25, 2009
Mighty O of Seattle. The best vegan donuts I’ve tried so far. Granted I have yet to hit any other solely vegan donut shop, I can’t see anyone having a more superior real donut than Mighty O. I got the glazed all the way to the left. So good. FoodSparrow Read more…
October 24, 2009
I had some unfinished business in the Pacific Northwest. And by business I mean vegan food to eat. This time I flew into Seattle only to head straight to Portland, Oregon, thee vegan capital of the country. But after a long transatlantic flight, we weren’t going to make it all Read more…
August 28, 2009
From author Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, on the floor of P.C.C. Natural Market in Fremont. River House Creperie West Seattle Rive House is a darling little creperie right off the West Seattle Bridge that offers a vegan gluten-free batter as a base for all their sweet and savory crepes. I Read more…
July 13, 2008
Sub Pop festival (Redmond) The best night you can spend with a bunch of teenagers (Seattle Center) “Your countenance shines brighter than the midday sun.” (Downtown) Extreme thrills. Seattle Center-style. The Space Needle. Just a thing to put on post cards. (Seattle Center) The octopus’s Karmann Gia (10th Avenue E) Read more…
July 11, 2008
My love don’t come easy. But Mighty O had me at “hello, what can I get for you?”… Knocking my socks off was their simple perfection- that they’re actually donuts: not just circular. New York has no answer to Mighty O. In a rare feat, coniferous trumps deciduous. Just how Read more…