Check out the jaunty minotaur! This hipster-y restaurant also had plastic chicken carcasses hanging in the window, which of course I found far less amusing.

There is a very similar tall green glass spiky thing in the courtyard at the MFA, and now I know who made it!

Awesome bottle-opener collection at the fancy restaurant at the Chihuly Exhibition. (I did not eat there.)

Green Lake. A second after taking this photo a jogger came up and asked me to take a pic of him with this background. I apologized for my lack of fluency with whatever special app he was using on his iPhone—”I don’t have a smartphone”—and he said, “That is an awesome thing about you.” Perfect stranger refers to the existence of many more awesome things there just isn’t time to hear about. I am not entirely sure a sweet little interaction like this would have happened on the East Coast.

No photos I took in the neighborhood around Green Lake could possibly capture the charm.

…except for this one!

Such a lovely evening. Photos thanks to Kristin Foster.