Ah, cherry season is upon us. Our fingers are running red with ripe Rainiers, we cherish the Chelans and titter for the Teitons. Of course, long-time readers will remember our paeans to the plum (Field Guide to Plums, Wallingford Plum Soup, etc.), so it was with great delight that we read Kimberly C's mail tipping us off to City Fruit, an on-line map of fruit trees in the city: http://city-fruit.appspot.com/display. Using it, you can register fruit trees that you know about…
Our neighboring ‘hoods have had some interesting stuff to report last week. Here’s a recap of the haps: Flowers? Aw, You Shouldn’t Have Fremont Universe reports a mysterious midnight gardener who’s been leaving elegant flora and fauna around. Aquatic Divers and Darlings My Green Lake posted a recent Evening Magazine piece on the Aqua Follies that performed every summer from 1950-1965 at Green Lake’s Aqua Theater. Tasty Thai Mobile The Eastlake Ave. blog raves about Kaosami’s Thai Truck parked behind the…
Interesting bits from the Community Council meeting with Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith... Neighborhood plan: The council endorsed a small and simple grant application for a Wallingford Neighborhood Plan Update. The goals will be to update our 15 year old neighborhood plan and to include new community inputs. Meridian School and the Good Shepherd Center: The council unanimously voted that community representatives on the Good Shepherd advisory board should support existing leasing guidelines and oppose granting Meridian School additional space in the…
Wouldn't it be nice if your street looked like the picture to the right? Well, it can! The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods is giving away trees for free as a way to beautify your neighborhood (and help the environment). Here's how it works, from their press release: Groups of neighbors from at least five households living on a street or block can request from 10 to 40 trees per project. In addition, every participating household can have a fruit tree for…
(Wallyhood is honored to welcome Paul Dorpat, author, observer, prankster and Wallingford's official unofficial historian, as an occasional contributor. In addition to his regular column for the Seattle Times, he writes his own Seattle history blog at http://pauldorpat.com/.) Here is a candid record of one of the saddest moments in Wallyhood's Pop History. It was, as far as I know, unannounced. They just did it! The photograph was taken by itinerant Frank Shaw from the top of the nearly new "Toxic…
If you haven't caught chanteuse Julie Cascioppo's campy act, y'oughta. She has returned from a six month trip to India and will be performing her "comeback show" on Bastille Day, Wednesday July 14th at 7 pm at the Good Shepherd Center's Chapel Performance Space (4649 Sunnyside Ave N). Here she tells us about it in that third person narrative that all performers who write their own copy must produce: JULIE CASCIOPPO, SEATTLE'S ORIGINAL JAZZ CABARET SINGER, INVITES YOU ON A SUB-CONTINENTAL…
We've lived here in Wallingford for 17 years now, and this is the first time we made it up to the Kiddies Parade. We'd tell you all about it, but a picture is worth a thousand words, and we've got a full set of photos from Neil Parekh. If you're reading in e-mail, you'll have to click through to view. Everyone else, enjoy! If you took photos to share, please leave a link in the comments!