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VA Park: The Long Walk

Garrison Creek Area:

From My Vantage Point, Sitting on a Stump:

Motocross Impressions:

[rDay Eighteen-Hundred-Twenty-One]

Wednesday: rDay Eighteen-Hundred-Twenty

In the Time of Coronavirus: Nessun Dorma

Italian opera tenor Maurizio Marchini serenades his quarantined neighbors in Florence:

For more of and about Marchini’s balcony performances, see here and here.

SIDEBAR:  A post on Luciano Pavarotti, for whom Nessun Dorma was one of his signature pieces, and how I became really interested in opera (and how you may want to do so, too) -- here.

Social Distancing, Continued

And here’s a little discussion of social distancing.

rDay Eighteen-Hundred-Eighteen

In the Time of Coronavirus: The Italian Garlic-Growing Street Gardener

In solidarity with Italy and in acknowledgement of its COVID-19 challenge, we present a portrait of the street gardener I met about a year ago and see regularly on my walks up and down Second Avenue. Here, we maintain requisite social distance, as we talk and I photograph at a 300mm distance from across the street, shooting between passing cars.

The Ides of March: So Far, So Good *

* If you don’t count the coronavirus/covid-19 elephant in the room …

In the meantime, some signs of normality downtown and around:

While we maintain social distance:

Velouria: Closed For Now

Ivi and Chika and the rest of the five-woman operation retreat temporarily from their downtown Seattle brick & mortar, but … you can still visit Shop Velouria!