Scenes from the Wallingford Family Parade
All images courtesy of Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren.
Sauvignon, left, and nine-year-old Kayloni, both of the Dolls & Gents Drill Team, take a silly selfie before the parade.
66th Annual Wallingford Family Parade & Festival in Photos
Photography that’s for the birds
Katie over at Present Sense tells us about a beautiful bird photography exhibit called "Wings in My World" by Tom Talbott, opening this Friday night (September 7): Local photographer Tom Talbott has spent the past year photographing birds from Northern California to the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. To mark the end of this project, you are invited to view a selection of works at Windows Art Gallery during the month of September. Some of the stars of the show are from our…
Oasis Art Gallery closing in July
Oasis Art Gallery (3644 Wallingford Avenue North) in lower Wallingford will close its doors in July. Owners Alex Strazzanti and Jeannie Trimarco-Strazzanti sent the following email to the gallery's newsletter subscribers: It's hard to find the right words ...but Jeannie and I had to make the difficult decision to close Oasis Art Gallery. The state of the economy over the last few years has significantly affected art sales and the last six months have been particular challenging. Although our dedication to promoting…
See ‘Now and Then’ at MOHAI free on Tuesday
Our favorite neighborhood historian, Paul Dorpat, wrote to tell us that the "Now and Then" repeat photography exhibit at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) is winding down and will close when the museum closes its McCurdy Park location in Montlake in June. If you haven't gone to it yet, you've got an opportunity to see it for free on Tuesday evening (April 24) from 5:30PM to 8:30PM. The "Now and Then" exhibit features Paul's time lapse videos he took…
A Gingerbread House on Kite Hill
Imagine taking a walk to Gas Works Park and finding a life-sized gingerbread house perched atop Kite Hill. The roof is tiled with chocolate snaps and festooned with gumdrops! The eaves are dripping with snow-white frosting and, wow! Look! There are people climbing on the steps of the house to enjoy its sugary goodness! Just thinking about it brings out the kid in me. But alas, it's only a camera trick, though a marvelous one created by photographer Tracie Howe. Tracie…
‘Now and Then’ at MOHAI
Paul Dorpat, Wallingford's very own "celebrian" (celebrity historian--yeah, I made that up), has worked with the Museum of History & Indsutry (MOHAI) for a "Now and Then" exhibit, which opens this Saturday, April 9, and runs until Sunday, June 3. If you're a fan of Paul's weekly "Now and Then" column for The Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Magazine, you'll see quite a bit of his "repeat photography" in which he uses historical and contemporary photographs to reveal the changes in our…