The other night, we went for a short bike ride. It was one of those glowing evenings; the rain had just stopped, the sun was setting over the inlet, everything was still green but there was a crispy hint of the fall yet to come.
Category: Ideas
Development Dreams: Old Power Plant in Ship Creek
I love this building. It’s kinda weird, run down, and has so so so much potential. I used to hope that no one wanted it and someday I could buy it and ask graffiti artists to create beautiful murals on its blank canvas walls for me to gaze at…
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Love Note: Crow’s Nest
There’s just something about stepping into the elevator in the Hotel Captain Cook on your way to the Crow’s Nest – you get to press the big round button, floating at the top of all the other little boring buttons, and zoom up to the 20th floor for a dose of retro-glam style, elaborate meal presentations (even ordering a cup of coffee feels fancy because they bring out all sorts of little accoutrements, including cookies and cinnamon sticks), and ridiculously gorgeous views of Anchorage.
A lovely, lofty perch for an evening cocktail.
Love Note: KTUU Ch. 2
Favorite news station: KTUU Ch. 2, because they deliver the news in a friendly yet professional manner, create interesting pieces like their current “Alaska Story” series, and of course, because they have talented cameramen (hi Rick!).
Walking and Talking
I’ve long loved the concept of walking meetings, and recently I stumbled into one. I say stumbled because during my internal “should I put on flip-flops for the five blocks to the coffee shop, or keep the heels on and look professional?” debate, it never once occurred to me that we wouldn’t actually be staying at the coffee shop for the meeting.
I decided that five blocks was nothing because these are my “comfy” heels.
Ship Creek Master Plan
Years ago, when I was just starting to be interested in what it takes to make magnetic places – the kind that people are drawn to, want to exist in, that inform our experiences an act as a supporting character in our lives – my dad drove me through Ship Creek, and then up to Government Hill so we could see the whole area sprawled out in front of us. I loved how from up there, you could follow the path of the creek with your eyes and see where it meets Cook Inlet, the mountains framing the view on the left and the right, the colors of the port and the railroad lending an air of industrial-chic.
That was when I fell in love with the potential of Ship Creek.
Love Note: Bathroom Humor
Sometimes it’s fun to succumb to your inner 5th grade boy and indulge in a bit of bathroom humor… with that in mind, I wanted to share this sign in the bathroom at Crush.
Small birds, what?! Still laughing.
Love Note: Fishing Ship Creek
Two minutes from the heart of downtown Anchorage, Ship Creek is filled with fisherman. How many cities in the U.S. can offer a similar experience?
Love Note: Garden Goldfish
Another highlight from the Anchorage Garden Tour. These goldfish were so pretty and such a surprise to find sitting atop a picnic table. I think they must have just been out for the day to enjoy all the company and sunshine?
My sister-in-law’s family designs gorgeous ponds filled with koi in Las Vegas – obviously not a fit for Anchorage gardens; I think these sweet little goldfish might be as close as we come.
Love Note: Pigeons
These pigeons live in one of the gardens on the Anchorage Garden Tour. Next door are some exceptionally lovely chickens, but I was more fascinated by these pretties. What does one do with all of them? Enjoy their cooing? Teach them to carry messages? Do people eat pigeon eggs? And, how do they do in our winters?
I’ve always liked pigeons, despite having lived in Washington D.C. where more than one person referred to them as winged vermin. For some reason, I like knowing that pigeons live in Turnagain.