A Quote from Mrs. Wallop, a Novel by Peter Devries

Mrs. Wallop is Randy Rivers' landlady. It is during a train ride to New York with Randy Rivers and Will Gerstenslager, at breakfast. Mrs. Wallop narrates, about Will:

"A night in the cement mixer had taken all the mirth out of him. He and Randy both looked like death warmed over..."

"We're stalled," Will said, when the train ground to a halt in the middle of nowhere.

"Thank God," said Randy, "Give us a chance to recover our chemical balance. My blood is homogenized. Whose idea was this?"

"Eat your prunes," I said. "While they're ice-cold. It's the chilled edge that perks you up. Don't take a person out of context."

When Books at 12:10 will begin again in September, once again I recall the novels of Peter Devries. Mrs. Wallop always was a favorite,

Old Aerial View of Tacoma

Here is an old aerial view of Tacoma from an early newspaper.

On the left of the picture we see The Tideflats.

Hard to imagine what the foreground is about.

At The Yard Sale

Not the old painted stool - we sometimes get caught up in Clutter Clear.

Two Portables at Restoration Sites

These two photographs were taken last Wednesday and last Saturday at University of Washington Seattle and at Wright's Park in Tacoma. The HUB is now closed for remodeling and the hair cutting salon will be outside Allen Library (on the way to Red Square). The portable has a little barber pole.

The historic restored restroom at Wright Park is now inside the fence around the installation project for the Sprayground and Playground. Ethnic Fest worked around the project fence, but the Pierce County Health Department hand washing portable seemed to use the water source inside the project fence, and volunteers were bringing containers of water from the restored restroom area. The volunteer t-shirt was that great green this year that is so highly visible in traffic.

Haiku

A few leaves scattered
on the walk, ecru, threadbare
the end of July.

How To Take the Sounder Train To IKEA

Last week on the fourteenth of July I took the Sounder Train to IKEA. Many folks wonder how this is done. One simply studies the bus schedule for the 153 from Kent and plans ahead to spend time in Kent between busses to IKEA. Kent has a public library. The transit center at the Kent Sounder Station includes meditation spiral walks in its landscaping. The bridge leads from the To Seattle side to the To Tacoma side where there are a lot of mall-type boutiques.

Marx Brothers and a link in previous post

The previous post contains a link at "map and diagram" which shows an aerial photo of the University of Washington - at the top center, the blog post reads, one can see the construction of the viaduct at 45th. The viaduct is now being replaced.