Snow Experience
Jan. 16th, 2007 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfs For over a year now, the Seattle Art Museum has been turning the lot immediately to the southwest of my office building into a "sculpture park," where citizens would be free to mill about amongst some nominal artwork. The grand opening isn't until this Saturday, but yesterday there was a "sneak preview" for friends and donors to the museum. I haven't been impressed with the works I've seen so far and was much more entertained over the handwringing this past fall when the local cement mixers guild went on strike, bringing a halt to the entire project. There was quite the crowd yesterday, most of them crammed into the pavilion where there's a coffee stand and warmth.
This morning I woke up to find fresh snow pouring from the sky. I read the websites and discovered that school wasn't closed but only two hours late (a half hour later, I would be told that schools had been closed) so I dressed and went to the bus stop. To wait. The bus was 20 minutes overdue when one of the other people I regularly commute with on the bus stopped by in his car and offered me a ride. I took it. Funny, he was listening to the same radio station I was. The ride in wasn't too bad; his car had all wheel drive and after getting down the hill everything was good. The office was mostly empty today; about half the employees called in.
When I got in, the city was mostly at a standstill. The cops had started closing off streets that were too steep and dangerous to drive, and the buses didn't seem to be running at all. I walked all the way from Pike Place Market to Denny Way, a little over a mile. It wasn't too bad, although the sidewalk was quite slippery. As I was walking by the silent sculpture park, I took another picture of the big statue that dominates the skyline there. We inside the building have nicknamed it "elephant," because it looks so much more like that than it does an "eagle."
This morning I woke up to find fresh snow pouring from the sky. I read the websites and discovered that school wasn't closed but only two hours late (a half hour later, I would be told that schools had been closed) so I dressed and went to the bus stop. To wait. The bus was 20 minutes overdue when one of the other people I regularly commute with on the bus stopped by in his car and offered me a ride. I took it. Funny, he was listening to the same radio station I was. The ride in wasn't too bad; his car had all wheel drive and after getting down the hill everything was good. The office was mostly empty today; about half the employees called in.
When I got in, the city was mostly at a standstill. The cops had started closing off streets that were too steep and dangerous to drive, and the buses didn't seem to be running at all. I walked all the way from Pike Place Market to Denny Way, a little over a mile. It wasn't too bad, although the sidewalk was quite slippery. As I was walking by the silent sculpture park, I took another picture of the big statue that dominates the skyline there. We inside the building have nicknamed it "elephant," because it looks so much more like that than it does an "eagle."
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Date: 2007-01-17 01:46 am (UTC)