Winter in Seattle -- rainy and gray, sunny and cold, Herbie

It's always very rainy in the winter here with the Sound reflecting the gray sky and the towering glass office buildings reflecting the gray water -- gray, gray, gray, Unless the sun shines, then the sky is blue, the water is blue, the mountains come out and it is truly one of the prettiest cities anywhere. In the first two weeks of the new year we had all of the above -- gray clouds, rain, fog, sun, snow, wind. Now we are bracing for the "greatest snow storm" in the past two decades. These predictions are often wrong, especially for relatively balmy Seattle, but still I did a Costco run today just in case.
 

On the first day of 2012, the weather was balmy and people were out enjoying the winter respite in Myrtle Edwards Park. We chatted up this gentlemen who caught our attention with an interesting bike made of WWII parts, a vintage Swiss emergency sled and his homemade hibatchi.

Another day in January, the skies were stormy and I caught a shot of a seagull perched on a rock tower.

The very next day was blue and sunny so we hopped on our bikes over to Elliott Bay Marina.

The Oram family headed to Mazama for the long MLK holiday while Tom and I chilled out with their dog Herbie. He loves it at our house because we give him long walks and he gets all of our attention. Luckily the weather held out and we had a great walk through Discovery Park.

We were surprised to wake up the next day to big flakes of snow.