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Continuing the show and tell theme:

Pike Place Market is a delight for browser; this time the flowers caught my eye. As always there were marvelous dried bouquets, but the joy lay in seeing the announcement of spring implicit in the fresh flowers on sale.

Walking back to our vehicle on Saturday at sunset I was amazed by the sight of this series of sculptures perched on the steps in the distance. I have been unable to find out more about them and at the time we were far too tired to go closer and investigate. The Waterfront Fountain was arresting in the golden rays of the setting sun, and equally impressive the next day on our visit to aquarium.

Walking down a sloping corridor with subdued lighting we enter a dome under Puget Sound, looking up at the fish swimming above. The otters were the star attraction in the mammals area, this pair casually floating on their backs.

The "flowers" of the ocean are as colorful and interesting as their air-dwelling counterparts; perhaps even more so since many of them are animate to some degree. I don't know enough about the subject to draw the line between plants and animals, although these seem to be neither. Of course there are some represented here that are clearly animals, although they are mostly stationery.

The fascinating glass art of Dale Chihuly is on display in the aquarium as well, and it takes a few beats before one realizes that these are not creatures in another tank, but glass.