Pike Place Market: at Night

I went to the market last night and I think I went a bit late.  Bryan Peterson says you should shoot just before sunset.  The building would look better in dark blue sky instead of black.  On the roof around the Conor there are pigs with lights and wreaths there is also a large tree with lights.  Right beside the public market sign there are fruit shapes in lights,

Holy mackerel!  The fish market smelled like my apartment last night.  I made deep fried rock fish with salsa for fish sauce.   Dredge your fish in flour, salt and pepper then dip it in egg and finally dip it in panko.  Put fish in hot oil about an inch deep.  Don;t flip fish until one side is golden brown, about five minutes.  Flip and cook another five minutes until fish breaks apart flaky.  Rock fish or red snapper is a thick fish so if you use a thinner fish like sole or tilapia it will take less time to fry.  Red snapper, my favorite fish, is only found in Florida and Texas.

Ho, Ho, Ho

Seen on Pike St.  I'm out of the hospital but I'm slow in getting started.  Its weird I don't really know what to do with myself.  I went out for Thanksgiving dinner the other day at McCormick and Schmitt on Lake Union.  The best food ever!  I had sole stuffed with dungeness crab, fingerling potatoes and asparagus.  It was my first time having dingeness crab, I want to have it again.   It was also my first vodka cocktail in a long time too.  I wasn't paying so when the server asked what shelf  I wanted my vodka from I almost said top shelf.  The middle is still smooth as silk.  The restaurant has been remodeled and its beautiful.  I want one of the wood lamps from upstairs.

Remember this building?

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Remember this place?  Its now closed, its been closed for awhile.  I miss the funny words they had written every week on their marquee.  Indiana Jones and the temple of poon or 28 quarters later love comes in spurts those were a couple of my favorites.

Can you imagine being a janitor here?  I would ware a hazmat suit from the CDC before I enter one of those booths.

Out and About!

I went out looking for Christmas at Swanson's Nursery.  I love the nursery, we pet the camel, saw the reindeer and miniature donkey.  Then we looked at the model trains and the Christmas decorations for sale.  We also looked at the holiday plants, I love amaryllis and the different colors of poinsettias.

The camel is named curly and he is 5 years old.  His nose is incredibly soft and he loves people to scratch it.  Feeding times are 10 and 4.

It felt nice to get out.  We finished our outing with coffee and cookies at the nurseries cafe.  There is a coy pond in the cafe, the fish are so fat nobody is allowed to feed them.  I gave one fish a piece of peanut butter cookie.  I felt cold wet fish lips as it ate cookie from my hand.

From summer to winter

I'm home from the hospital, got home yesterday.  I was there for only two months but I was in for a shock when I got out.  There is Christmas shit everywhere, I haven't even eaten my turkey yet.  And prices in the grocery store have gone up twenty percent.  If it weren't for an EBT card I'd be eating Top Ramen and cheap mac n cheese, I can't live without my Kraft.  1183 passed, I wanted to vote no on that initiative.  People do not need more access to alcohol!  And a big chunk of the Via Duct came down.  I'm scared shitless at the thought of travelling in a tunnel to get to West Seattle. What if there is an accident or an earth quake, how do you get out?

From the Hospital Lawn

On the lawn
i saw a yellow flower

a girl doing yoga

 a picture of a building

that was off in the distance

and a sign saying we will vote!

red leaves

Outside my window

orange, red, yellow

yesterday 

it seemed

just green.