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PhDs History & Archaeology. Writer. Publisher BlueParrotBooks.com. Seattle Beach Bum with a Camera. If you like my photos buy my books. Find all my stuff on my Substack blog: https://michaelostrogorsky.substack.com/
If you like my pics, buy my books. Life Is A Beach: a Photographic Rambling Around West Seattle. 11 x 8-1/2 landscape format 80 pound gloss paper stock soft cover with 95 full page color plates. Books available from West Seattle's Pegasus Book Exchange, and Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill:
New on my Substack. Pioneer Square History Walk Stop Number 4: The Lagoon, The Sawdust, Chinatown. . . and a Certain President's Grandfather:
and a Certain President's Grandfather
Details of the Knowing the Spring Courtyard entrance to Seattle Chinese Garden adjacent to South Seattle College:
Song Mei Pavilion and adjacent lily pond Seattle Chinese Garden:
Rock feature at Seattle Chinese Garden. Chinese gardens are distinctive in their symbolic use of water, stone, plants, and architecture to create a place of beauty, vibrant with universal energy:
Main gate to Knowing the Spring Courtyard and entrance to Seattle Chinese Garden adjacent to South Seattle College. Designed and built in conjunction with artisans from Seattle's sister city, Chongqing, Seattle Chinese Garden will be one of the largest Chinese gardens outside of China:
Century old Carp Dragon created in Thailand guarding Seattle Chinese Garden adjacent to South Seattle College. According to traditional Chinese lore, a carp that could jump the high falls of the Yellow River at Dragon Gate would be immediately transformed into a dragon:
Someone mentioned the new Jellyfish sculpture at the Seattle waterfront's renovated Pier 58 seems to be saluting. So here I am doing the #JellyfishSalute: 😁
Bouquet Factory Pike Place Market:
Glorious Colors of Summer Pike Place Market:
