I don't normally drive to the Eastside of King County on a weekday. But Kristin wanted to attend an evening conference in Redmond and asked that I leave work early so that she could make it on time.
Bellevue, like Seattle is in the midst of a huge building boom. I dropped Kristin off in Redmond and took the short trip down the 520 to Bellevue to go to the book store and the mall. I soon discovered that most of downtown Bellevue's 106th St NE was pay parking (including Barnes and Nobles), so rather than paying for parking, I parked five blocks south at the 'free' parking lot where the old Christian bookstore used to be. Walking back north with Asher, I noticed the old and new high rises coming together. I was a beautiful and mild Wednesday evening with the sun still bright in the sky, but angling quickly out of view. I pulled out my iPhone and tried my hand at panoramics.
What a beautiful evening! The panoramics turned out great, Asher did an impromptu run through the fancy fountain puddles on 106th St. NE and NE 6th (I let down my guard and did the same), and we had a good time at the Bellevue Square mall later.
The takeaway of this blog is: when you put your mind to something and come together and do it, you can make beautiful things, be it skyscrapers or memories.
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