Seattle, as much as it likes to pretend it’s a big city, is a teeny tiny little college town with a few tall buildings in a downtown area that quickly devolves into suburbs and wilderness. It’s like Denver–population hovering around 650,000–not like Chicago, New York, London, or Paris, or even San Diego. With that said, I see deer, bald eagles, snowy owls, and snakes on my runs. I live in the city.
Also, we have a large bicyclist nation, so I’m usually getting run over by old guys on bikes on the sidewalk (on a road with a bike lane wider than my car) or being pushed to the side by bikes on the trails (the trail is 10 feet across at least, do they have to pass me so close I can feel their breath). There’s also strollers, pedestrians texting, and children playing tag. These scenes play out differently each run, but usually end up with me jumping into a bush!
“The” Scene
I have all kinds of scenes, but every single run I do from my house, I run to the same spot and take a photo, usually multiple photos. It is exactly one mile from my house, so if I’m having a bad run, I can cut back the shortest way and be home in less than 20 minutes even I’m hobbling. The spot is a very specific little corner in Sunset Park, which as you can imagine has a great view of the sunset, but I’m there all kinds of hours, so not all photos are of sunsets. I’ve been taking this photo break almost every run from my house for four years.
Those are from my run on Friday.
Those are from January 1. A sunset for the new year.
Those are from a rare sunny day.
Another sunset.
It snowed at some point.
For some reason in this set, I had 20 photos of my shoes in snow versus the skyline. There were more of my tree friend, but I thought I’d share my shoes.
Those are from 2013.
I think you get the point. I have hundreds, if not thousands of these photos. The same spot over years. I do run other places, I swear! Sometimes.
Do you have any favorite scenes from your run?
Love seeing the photos of the same place at different times – I tend to do the same thing although haven’t taken as many photos as you have!
Love the pictures !
I take the same picture often of where I start my runs. I like to see how it changes through the seasons. The weather has been so mild here that it is as green now as it was October 1st !
How fun to have the start of your runs…it’s so great to look back and see the subtle differences.
So pretty! I was last in Seattle a few years ago on the way to/from Alaska. I loved running through the city and along the water. Thanks for linking up!
I have never been to Seattle. But not one of those pictures look like it was raining. Is that just a myth that it was always there? Love to visit sometime.
It rains more in Florida than it does in Seattle, but it is gray and cloudy so much of the time here. I tend to go running between the storms, and bought a treadmill so I could avoid the worst of it in Winter. I’ve had many beautiful long runs end in insane downpours (like 2-3 miles of can’t open my eyes rain). My run Friday was actually cut short because it started to rain, I felt the drops and turned around. I made it two blocks away before the sky opened up. Summer is a perfect time to visit as the weather is perfect.
Funny that you take a picture of the same tree all the time. I don’t have any one place that I run regularly enough for that, except maybe my neighborhood and that would be boring.
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That is the one advantage to living in Seattle proper and not a suburb of Seattle, there are so many beautiful and natural places a stone’s throw from the center of everything. My neighborhood has a beach, a forest, and a bunch of bars. Perfect combo!
How cool to take a picture at the same spot on each run. You probably don’t realize how different the photos really are until you go back and look. I really like that tree!