Dispatches from Ravenna, a neighborhood in Northeast Seattle
Don’t get too obsessed with the dandelions in your own yard, because your neighbor’s yard looks like this.
Your time and energy are better spent doing other things.
Just let it go.
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On the east side of 20th Avenue NE, between the Ravenna Park Bridge and NE 65th Street, lives a stone family. They like to dress up when the weather is good. Who doesn’t?!
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Ravenna by Rebecca
Hollywood by byDavvi (via Flickr)
AMAZING RESEMBLANCE, isn’t it?
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This is a picture of the mayor riding away on his bicycle with a bunch of carrots:
Mayor Mike McGinn was in our neighborhood on Saturday, December 1 for a “Tour de Ravenna” and a town hall at the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center. This picture was taken after the last stop on the tour (the Ravenna Community Garden) where he was presented with a bunch of carrots grown there.
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I’m a big fan of the Muddy Waters Coffee at the corner of NE 65th Street and 23rd Avenue NE — not because of the drive-through window, but because they DECORATE.
Here’s the stand today, in its Halloween costume:
He could’ve gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.
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Autumn has definitely arrived: The days are shorter, weather has turned rainy and blustery, and ZOMG look at the trees!
These beauties live on the backside of the Ravenna School Apartments (6545 Ravenna Ave NE), and they are among my fall favorites in our neighborhood.
SO RED.
Jealous much, evergreen?
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I can’t quite recall the cross streets where this guy lives — it’s NE 60th St and 3somethingth Ave NE. And I’m not sure how legal he is — painted city fire hydrant and all. But he is quite, quite cute.
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So you buy a house on a hill. And no one can see it clearly from the street. And your friends can never find the place. (And neither could ambulances or the police, if it came to that.) So what is a home owner to do?
Well done, 5744.
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You can find this sign at eastbound NE 70th St at 20th Ave NE.
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In mid-May of last year, I happened to be at the playground at the Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center on a breezy sunny day. And every time the wind hit the blossoming cherry trees it would cause a cascade of petals to fall to the ground. It was so beautiful. So I took some pictures, and some video.
This week’s Moment of Ravenna Zen: Two minutes and thirty-eight seconds of falling cherry tree blossoms. (In the background you can hear the wind, children playing, a jet plane going by, and my son saying, “Look at all that snow!”)
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