Showing posts with label seattle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seattle. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2009

No more mowing


Aren't these yards pretty?
I would love to have a no-mow yard similar to these. You could even tuck food plants in there--though better in the backyard or at least back away from the street and cars.

A bit of lawn to play or picnic on is great. However, I just don't understand this infatuation with the plain green lawn everywhere you look. Chalk up another victory to the boys with the advertising dollars.

These pics are from my trip to Seattle a couple weeks ago.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Back from Seattle



Just back home from a whirlwind trip to Seattle, promoting and screening our documentary Mad City Chickens.

We had a 3 hour layover in Minneapolis. Then our connecting plane to Seattle was a few hours late. By the time we got into Seattle on Thursday night it was 3:00 am our time. That set me up to be tired for the rest of the trip but I still had a blast!

The Friday night MCC movie screening went well. Around 160 people showed up even though, quite uncharacteristically it was a beautiful sunny day and gorgeous evening.



On the radio at 7:30 the next morning. That's us and the Seattle city chicken educator from the Seattle Tilth group. What fun!


As it was Robert's and my first time in Seattle. Our host family (& new friends) took us around to see some of the highlights of the city.



Saw some fish "thrown" at the downtown market. Yes, when you ordered fish they throw it to the packers.










Free chocolate tasting at the chocolate factory tour!!!! I won't show you the pics of us in the hair nets. ;)



On Sunday we were up at 5:00 am and spent the whole day at airports again and on various planes to get back to Madison. The plane from Seattle to Detroit had an all male cabin crew and a female captain welcomed everyone aboard. How refreshing!

Anybody in Seattle? There is another screening of our film tonight in Seattle. However, because of a schedule conflict we couldn't stay.
Here's the skinny on the screening:
7:00pm
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW.
Seattle, WA, USA, Earth, Milky Way, The Universe.
lol!