Spectacular Seattle Day

What a spectacularly beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest. Glorious Mt Rainier (locally referred to simply as "The Mountain") rising like a gigantic ice cream cone on the Southern horizon above Lake Washington.... the sun is shining in an azure sky, and we are enjoying our warmest day of the winter....by far. 53 degrees F (~ 12 C), and while that's a tad bit short of the earlier promises of 60...we will take it! And watching over it all was Ernest upon the favored light standard above the 520 Bridge as we traveled west this morning shortly after 9 am. He wasn't there on the way home......anytime you see a glaucous seagull upon any of the light poles on the western portion of the bridge you know you will not see Ethel or Ernest, and there were several of them hanging out by 11:30 am. (The seagulls are not stupid, nor are they suicidal.) This magical weather is supposed to hold for several days. So even if we return to winter later this month we will be replenished by these golden days.