Picturing Spring, Take 2

These two posts have been split apart, so as not to be too insanely long and hard to load.

So, anyhow, while I was mainly taking pictures of the flowering trees and things (see Take 1), other, man-made, things caught my eye as well.

Like this. Technically, I think it was the giant roller shade that first caught my eye, but that shaded bay window is pretty darned amazing, too. I can only imagine the views these people have.

This side of the building faces more east, so these guys are gonna be looking at the Cascades, Lake Washington and the Eastside. Residents of the earlier penthouse would have a westerly view, of the Olympics, the Bay/Sound, and Bainbridge Island.

Pretty darned amazing gingerbread work on this building of gaudy penthouses. Seriously, very cool looking.

Home of the penthouses, the Gainsborough (note the proper British-y spelling) Building. Doesn't this just look like the entrance of a magnificent building, I ask you?

While I don't know how insanely expensive buying a condo/apartment in the Gainsborough would be, I do know that very nice condos in other insanely expensive buildings in the immediate vicinity run well over $1.5 million.

Even given West Coast insanely expensive real estate prices (as compared to, say, Oklahoma, or middle-of-nowhere Central Texas), that's a whole hell of a lot of money, and not something Ed and I are likely to be venturing anywhere near in this lifetime...

Then there are the cool-looking things that don't cost an arm and a leg. Like a neighborhood church's oddities:

I haven't the vaguest notion what the hell these three things are located next to, and in the same style as other stone work on, the First Baptist Church.

Distinctly related style of stone work here on the porte-cochere. Too bad no one has coaches anymore to be able to watch those things rolling in and out

And again here on the entrance. Definitely a cool, Gothic-y looking church...

And finally, because I can't seem to NOT take pictures of it, here is the Needle with the snow-capped Olympics providing the backdrop.

Happy spring, everyone!