A visitor from the East came for the past few days, which gave me an excuse to be a bit of a tourist in Seattle.  Along with the Seattle Aquarium, the Space Needle and Pike Place Market, we saw Ryan Adams in concert at Benaroya Hall (“Soccer Sticker!”), ate at Benihana’s (the novelty has worn off, but the food is still great) and saw “The Ides of March” (I will watch anything with George Clooney;  a very bleak look at politics, but this film is aces in my book).

But hey, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are a few thousand words about my weekend.