Seattle Real Estate & Neighborhood Blog

Seattle Snow Art

All over the city, in every neighborhood, there are little young people and full sized adults leaving impressions of creativity in their yards and sidewalks. Snowmen are made up of all sizes, shapes, some with clothing item

s such as scarves, hats, and earmuff, others with carrot noses, raisin eyes, and even money coined mouths!

How better to celebrate this winter wonderland in the biggest snowfall in recent history? On my quest to find the best and most creative examples of snow art all around north Seattle, I found amusement beyond expectation. I laug

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wholeheartedly and was thoroughly entertained by the uniqueness of our local neighbors. What a fun activity to enjoy with the entire family.

So, folks, go out in your own neighborhoods, bundle up, grab the kids, and walk around and delight yourselves in your local neighborhood art! I guarantee it will be a wildly interesting ride and so much better exercise than sitting in front

of the television. It is funny how many times you whiz by a place in your car, how different it is and how many more

details you really see from your walk-by perspective. There are so many aesthetic forms of beauty, from plants, smells, architectural and natural characteristics, that you may never even notice from your car. It is like having a fantastic outdoor museum open to the public.

Happy Holidays to you all, and to all an

explosion of an artfully good time!

Helen Toyoda

Realtor
Helen@SeattlePowerSearch.com

206.383.8182

Labels: Bryant, Hawthorne Hills, Seattle snow, Wedgwood

Why Is There Snow?

Seattle wants to know. After all, here we were, minding our own business and getting ready for the holidays, when along comes the blizzard!! OK, well, maybe not a real blizzard, but definitely a mini-blizzard. While perhaps fun, and certainly different, it resulted in school closures, bus and airline disruptions, and a whole lot of cold toes.

Satellites might be forgiven for asking ourselves...why?? Here is one reason, as Steve Sato and his friends in Mukilteo enjoy snowboarding in their own backyard!

Edy Kizaki
Realtor, Team Leader
(206) 331-0152
edy@seattlepowersearch.com

Labels: Mukilteo, Seattle snow

Snow Blanket Deepens in Shoreline

Shoreline, like the entire Seattle area, is having a snow day. Well, two snow days. For the second day in a row schools have closed, and even as I type snow is continuing to fall. Yesterday when I visited Helen in her restaurant Toyoda's (I'll blog on that too!) she told me that a White Christmas is predicted. Great!

When I went up to Top Market to pick up some eggs (and some eggnog!) and take a look around, traffic was out and about, but reduced, and

everyone was going much slower than usual. We are not used to much snow in Seattle so it is not usual for people to be very prepared. I hear that

the Home Depot guy told my friend who went in for De-Icer (sp??) that he was about the 100th person who'd asked for it...this was last night before the even heavier snow fall that was happening today. No more De Icer, we were told!

I took my dog Yuki for a walk this morning in Richmond Beach and checked out the scenary. I saw kids playing in the snow at the playground and park at Richmond Beach Library (which is closed due to the weather). Every little fence looks sweet and each leaf is covered with it's own little frosting. There is poetry in the details everywhere you look.

Let's face it, it might be harder to drive, but everything has turned magic under the winter white!

A day like this, just taking a walk makes life worth living. And everyone was experiencing the snow in their own way.

People were out clearing off their paths or walking their dogs, and sledding down any convenient slope (hey, everything is covered, it really is a winter playground out there!) on a sled, huge tupperware lid, or a snowboard! We might manage a respectable snowman by evening...

All I know is that even though my toes got cold, my heart is warmer for that walk through our

snow blanketed neighborhood seeing everyone out there saying hello to each other and playing like snow only comes once a year! (and really, you know, it usually comes four or five times...)