September 11, 2016 - In Other Words

A DeHavilland Otter of Kenmore Air's fleet appears to make an approach to the moon  as it descends for a landing on Lake Union.

The jazz standard "Fly Me to the Moon" was written by Bart Howard in 1954 and originally titled "In Other Words" and first released as the flipside of an album.  In 1963 Howard changed the name to what we now know it.  By the time Frank Sinatra's version, produced by Quincy Jones, was released in 1954 a hundred other versions had been released.  The song became closely associated with the Apollo missions and was the first music heard by an astronaut on the moon when Buzz Aldrin listened to it on Apollo 11 on a portable tape player.

September 11, 2016 - Wake

"Wake" by Richard Serra consists of five 60 ton steel forms standing over 14 feet high and nearly 50 feet long of 'gently curving serpentines of convex and concave'.  "Wake" is part of the Seattle Art Museum's collection housed at the Olympic Sculpture Park on the north end of Seattle's waterfront.

September 6, 2016 - Another Ferry Photo

The ferries Kaleetan and Wenatchee leaves Seattle's Elliott Bay headed for Bremerton and Bainbridge Island respectively.  Beyond Alki Point point the ferry Tillikum sits at the ferry terminal on Vashon Island.

A few minutes earlier, they had passed by the cranes and dry docks of Harbor Island.