Edmonds Photos, or: A Dreary Day in a Cheerful Place
I work in Edmonds every once in a while and last time I was there I stopped at the pier and shore to take photos.
Here are the remains of fish that a fisherman left behind.
There is something inevitably sad about piers. When they are built, they are imagined as cheerful places where people take their children to walk on sunny days. But they are so quickly weathered by salt water and rainy days. They start to decay and rust and mildew. So there is this juxtaposition between the intended cheer and the quick decay that make them seem lonely and bleak. It's the same sort of feeling that old carnivals or amusement parks have to them.
I love all the elegant ducks that come to the Northwest in the winter.
It looks a bit like a smiling face.
Someone wrote in 'Human' with sharpie underneath the little scuba diver. I feel like there is some sort of hidden existential comment to go along with this, but I don't know what it is.
Someone carved in "I ♥ MKK." I wonder if the person still loves MKK. I wonder if they actually dated or if it was unrequited love.
On the way to the Edmonds Marina and Pier there is a realty company that has huge statues of animals for sale in the parking lot. The elephant is my second favorite but my favorite is the giraffe. While the elephant is probably of a size fairly equivalent to the living elephant, the giraffe towers over any measly real giraffe. It is a veritable jungle in that parking lot with zebras and rhinos joining the giraffe and elephant. When I first wrote this paragraph, I wrote that the animals were being sold at a 'reality' company rather than a 'realty' company. It'd be pretty neat if there was such thing as a reality company that sold such strange and unreal things as giant animal statues.
Here are the remains of fish that a fisherman left behind.There is something inevitably sad about piers. When they are built, they are imagined as cheerful places where people take their children to walk on sunny days. But they are so quickly weathered by salt water and rainy days. They start to decay and rust and mildew. So there is this juxtaposition between the intended cheer and the quick decay that make them seem lonely and bleak. It's the same sort of feeling that old carnivals or amusement parks have to them.I love all the elegant ducks that come to the Northwest in the winter.It looks a bit like a smiling face.Someone wrote in 'Human' with sharpie underneath the little scuba diver. I feel like there is some sort of hidden existential comment to go along with this, but I don't know what it is.Someone carved in "I ♥ MKK." I wonder if the person still loves MKK. I wonder if they actually dated or if it was unrequited love.On the way to the Edmonds Marina and Pier there is a realty company that has huge statues of animals for sale in the parking lot. The elephant is my second favorite but my favorite is the giraffe. While the elephant is probably of a size fairly equivalent to the living elephant, the giraffe towers over any measly real giraffe. It is a veritable jungle in that parking lot with zebras and rhinos joining the giraffe and elephant. When I first wrote this paragraph, I wrote that the animals were being sold at a 'reality' company rather than a 'realty' company. It'd be pretty neat if there was such thing as a reality company that sold such strange and unreal things as giant animal statues.