Friday Blue

MARVY MORNING:  The day dawned with blue skies, happy Friday to us! I decided we should take advantage ASAP, as the weather can change rapidly. So, by 9:15 we were parked on the upper west fringe of Queen Anne Hill, ready for a stroll. That locale gave us a nice view of our neighborhood, and the bridge we strolled on Tuesday morning.

Elliott Bay was so blue today!  Here are hundreds of parked pleasure craft ...

and here's a big working boat, anchor dropped, waiting for a dock, apparently.

We walked the west promenade and made our way to the southern sidewalk. Here, West Seattle is barely visible behind CJ and his furry friends.

No great photos of the Space Needle, it was a bit too hazy to the south. But it was still a wonderful walk. We enjoyed checking out edifices' architecture, including the old West Queen Anne Public School. Per its Wiki article, it was "designed in the popular Richardsonian Romanesque style by Warren P. Skillings and James M. Corner." It's high end condos, now, of course. :/

On our way back to the car, the kids stopped in Top Pot for a "hand-forged" doughnut while I dog sat on the sidewalk outside. Just before we reached our ride, we could spy the Olympics through some towering evergreens. So pretty!

Upon returning home, we watched two and a half lectures for our Beatles class. During the third, we were interrupted by a phone call from Rick's needy contractor requesting our presence in West Seattle, so off we went.

We dealt with the contractor's confusion and  made good use of our time there, organizing Rick's expansive DVD catalog. It provided a good opportunity for the kids to practice alphabetizing.

LIGHT SHOW: When the sun erupted with a solar flare a couple of days ago, the first thing I thought was, "Northern Lights!!!!"  Seeing the Northern Lights is definitely on my 'bucket list.'

If I had been on the ISS yesterday, I could have seen a first rate light show, and even though these were technically Southern Lights, that would have sufficed. :)

These Aurora Australis photos were taken on February 27 by NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio.
In a Facebook post, he described the one above as "Aurora like thunderstorms on the horizon with a bit of sunrise and Venus(?) rising up through it."

MUSIC MINDED:  Last night, we watched a new episode of "Live From Daryl's House," featuring Daryl Hall and his guest, fellow Philly dude Amos Lee. It was great, as always. If you haven't seen any of his show's I'd strongly encourage you to check out the catalog of past concerts. We've seen them all and every single one is golden.

After that, we fell into watching "Saved in San Francisco," a documentary about the band Train, who we had the pleasure of catching on concert last summer.

This evening we were discussing Beethoven and I qued up a couple of songs on YouTube. One of the gems we found was an orchestral flash mob in Spain performing "Ode to Joy." Enjoy - we sure did! http://youtu.be/kbJcQYVtZMo