Flowers on Friday

Pike Place Market in Seattle is known for it's flowers. It was overwhelmingly luscious. The first time I went in early June it was full of lupins and iris.

I love how they look in the old paint buckets too.

 















When I returned in July it was full of sweet peas. Don't know if you can see that price but they were half the price of flowers in Britain.

Early morning coffee as the market sets up is a great Seattle thing to do.

Back Home

This is where I've been. The pond in the idyllic Pilchuck Glass School campus, north of Seattle in a tree farm. We swam here on a hot day, at night there was always a loud frogs chorus here.

My fellow team members for our (awesome) course Hot and Ready Made in Session 2 of the Pilchuck summer school, more of this later.

I loved Seattle.

I don't think you could beat life on a houseboat there.

Next stop was Vancouver and a view from Granville Island.

A sunset strip of my next destination, Los Angeles, which I loved though I hadn't expected to.

I'd always wondered why Venice in LA is so called - but now I know after a walk round the canals and all the amazing homes there. Apparently this was a run down area not so long ago, hard to imagine that now.
There's a whistle stop tour for now, but there's more pics and info to come.
Welcome new followers, after neglecting blogging for 5 weeks or more I'm not sure how I got more visitors!