Saturday at Pike Place can be pretty fantastic. I sound like the biggest goob in the world for saying that, but I’ve lived here for almost six years and I never get tired of spending a day shopping and eating and clicking pics. And I still haven’t eaten at over half of the places. When our [...]
Zach and Beth were married last July in Tacoma. Although they were living and working in North Carolina, they decided to come back to Washington and a favorite church from her past for the ceremony. They are outgoing and energetic, the kind of couple that spends their weekends on the water or on the road every [...]
There’s a hole in the wall in the middle of Capitol Hill in the city of Seattle that lives at the bottom of the sea called Honey Hole. There’s a whole, there’s a whole, there’s a whole lotta sandwich at that hole in the wall in the middle of Capitol Hill in the city of [...]
I grew up in Alabama, and having lived in both Mississippi and Georgia, as well as spending long, hot summers in Arkansas and Texas (yes, I’m about to talk about a restaurant that serves Southern food and I’m playing the Southern card), I’ve eaten a lot of Southern cooking. But believe me when I [...]
This Happy Cookie Friday blog is being interrupted by a special event, and will return next week to its regularly scheduled programming. We now bring you: Happy Birthday Cupcake Friday, featuring the Cupcake Royale on Capitol Hill. Yes, it was my birthday on Tuesday and while cookies are my favorite, the only way to celebrate [...]
Last August we joined Kishelle and Christian to photograph their wedding day. The event was an outdoor ceremony on Canon Beach, in Oregon, home of spectacular vistas and stunning sunset views. Although the day promised to be gray and cloudy, the location is always a pleasure. We arrived at the Inn at Canon Beach to find [...]
I don’t know who started the cupcake trend in Seattle (and I presume all over the country), but it seems like there’s a cupcake cafe on every corner. They even seem to have replaced the coffee shacks because one can buy both cupcake and cappucino at the cupcakeries I’ve been to lately. This is not to [...]
Last June we had the privilege of photographing the wedding of Ali and Paul. They were married in Tacoma at Faith Presbyterian, the church/school that Ali attended as a young girl. It was a pretty summer day and while Ali’s mom, the inimitable Brenda, held down the fort, we took the couple and their wedding [...]
This week’s Happy Cookie Friday is brought to you by Pastelería y Panadería La Ideal in South Park. It’s “un pedacito de Mexico en South Park,” which, as everybody knows, means “that place that sells a very happy looking cookie made especially for Natasha Reed’s Happy Cookie Friday. In South Park.” The way you gather [...]
If you’re ever driving through Portland on I-5 and somewhere around the Alberta exit you’re overcome with a deep, burning desire for a grilled cheese, I know a place you can go to trip the light fantastic. It’s the Grilled Cheese Grill, and do they ever do some magical things with cheese and bread in [...]
Last Saturday was the ninth annual Portland Urban Iditarod. The contest mimics the famous annual Alaskan Iditarod, but in the sprit of keeping Portland weird this contest uses humans instead of dogs, and shopping carts instead of sleds. The course is four miles though scenic downtown Portland Oregon in heavy traffic, with four stops for [...]
There’s not a better sandwich than a genuine cheese steak, but it’s been pretty hard to find a good philly in Seattle. A few people had recommended a spot on Capitol Hill that I’ve missed for the entire five years I’ve been living here, but a few weekends ago we finally found the fevre. Philadelphia [...]
This week’s Happy Cookie Friday is brought to you by Madison Park Bakery in Madison Park. This bakery has been around since 1929 and that’s exactly what it feels like when you enter–an authentic, traditional, bona fide bakery. Not a coffeehouse, not artisanal, and not bistro. This is your mother’s bakery. It looks, smells, and [...]
I’m not a waffle person. Who in their right mind would choose waffles over fluffy pancakes? However, Sweet Iron: The Real Liège Waffle definitely puts up a contender. I always make sure to visit places like this in the off hours in hopes of getting a chance to kibitz with the folks who work there, take [...]
This weekend in Portland, at least 60 sleds will be pulled by dogs across a section of Portland. By sleds I mean shopping carts and by dogs I mean people. It’s called the Portland Urban Iditarod and we’ll be there photographing the shenanigans. To get an idea of what I mean by shenanigans, the following [...]
 |
 |
