The Calder and Hokusai exhibits at Seattle Art Museum are amazing. We tried to get the Calder mobiles to move without touching them (or getting busted by the guards) by discreetly blowing at them, with some success. Two of my faves are shown here.
The one with the brass gong actually could ring, I think, but we weren't able to apply the right wind.
The fish is not as simple as it looks.

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest!

Had to admire Biden spokesperson John Kirby's tapdancing when #npr reporter Mary Louise Kelly asked whether cutting off all food, water, and electricity to Gaza wasn't a war crime -- but I don't much admire Kelly's failure to press him for a real answer. In my head I kept hearing what a good BBC bulldog would have done: "but that meets the definition of a war crime, doesn't it? What's the administration's position on war crimes?"

ETA: transcript at https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204950066/nsc-spokesman-john-kirby-says-more-u-s-military-support-is-heading-to-israel

Canadian snark is sometimes indistinguishable from passive-aggressiveness. (Found in Surrey, BC.)

Starting a new career in graphic design!

I was shocked to learn that TFG's famous mugshot has actually been retouched. Through confidential sources I have secured the unretouched
version.
#TrumpMugShot

Olympia ain't perfect, but the buses are free and there are ripe blackberries at some of the stops.

Holy moly -- idly wondering how far I'd have to go to get out of this smoke, I fire up PurpleAir and it says, in effect, "Klamath Falls, or maybe Eureka."
Not complaining (much), the air quality is bad but not horrible here -- but it's quite something when the nearest good air is in the most distant corner of the next state, or maybe just two states over.

I keep a floating bead in each hummingbird feeder so i can easily see when they're low. It just occurred to me the hummers are probably tracking that bead too.

Mecca dive bar in Seattle making things clear. It's a shame they have to, but good on them for doing it.

In honor of Confederate Flag Day.

Today's moment of awww -- 40 years of marriage can have an effect.