Traveling: Seattle in the Daylight

The Space Needle from Queen Anne Hill : Seattle, WA

Sunday morning, Maya graciously continued her tour guiding and took me up to Queen Anne Hill to capture iconic photos of the Space Needle.

Close up : Frank Gehry, Architect : Experience Music Project : Seattle, WA

We also went down to the Seattle Center and the Needle itself and enjoyed a little photo walking around that and the Experience Music Project (EMP) complex. Not long after that, I left and headed out toward the coast to catch some beach time before my flight back to D.C. the next day.

Some sculpture thingamijig at the EMP : Seattle, WA

All in all, I enjoyed Whidbey Island and Seattle. Meeting a fellow photo blogger was a lot of fun and I hope to have similar opportunities with others in the future! If I ever win the lottery, I'm buying a Mini-Wini and traveling to the cities where all of my favorite photo bloggers live. Now, if I could just find the right numbers, I'd be on my way.

Space Needle and EMP between Monorail : Seattle, WA

As usual, this is a just a handful of the photos I took on Sunday. To see more, see the slideshow below. Remember, you can click on it and it will open in a larger format.

Tomorrow: Ocean Shores, a celebrity sighting, and heading home...

Photo copyright: D.C. Confidential, 12/08

Richmond: Bricks & Mortar

Richmond's original train terminal, now the Science Museum.
The building was designed by John Russell Pope, who also designed
The National Gallery of Art and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

These are just photos of some buildings I stumbled upon going from one site to the next along Richmond's Broad Street.

Lucky Strike Factory in the warehouse district. It's now the site of new start-ups.

Original advertising on the side of an old, brick building on East Broad Street

Richmond's original City Hall. The current City Hall is an unattractive minimalist
monstrosity of concrete and glass. This building is much more intriguing and reminds
me of the City and County Building in Salt Lake City.

Richmond's old City Hall is near the Confederate White House and adjacent to the Virginia State House. Richmond's current mayor is L. Douglas Wilder who was also Virginia's governor and the first African-American governor in the United States.

I hope you've enjoyed this tour of Virginia's capital city! It's only a snapshot, but well worth the visit. I know I'll be going back again. And soon!

Photo copyright: D.C. Confidential, 5/08