Walking Seattle Again

  The Haller Lake neighborhood was the location of today's walk. Ingraham High School, with its new building and impressive sports fields, took up a good portion of the area. Northwest Hospital occupies considerable acreage. A City of Seattle's Maintenance Facility and the Operations Support Center for the Seattle Housing Authority are also located here. There is a Household Hazardous Waste facility just north of a trailer park. Ashworth Avenue N becomes a footpath through Seattle Public Utility property and... ... at Harkness Park. It also becomes a dead-end street at 130th. On this 5.5 mile walk, I passed the Granite Curling Club of Seattle I took a lesson here a few years ago and, if I were 20 years younger, might have taken up curling), ... ... a cute stump house (it wasn't up in a tree), ... ... a toppled tree on the Ingraham campus, and some newly installed sidewalks with curb cuts (even though, except for busy streets, sidewalks were few and far between). Single fami

  This sunny February day found me back in the Haller Lake neighborhood. I walked streets near both Ingraham High School and Lakeside School. A few of the streets curved or crossed each other. Someone has made good use of this intersection at Wayne Place NE. Most streets have a mix of modest houses, some small, older cottages, some probably built in the 70's, and few newer. This tidy development on Wayne Place is an instance of the newer. The area is quiet and most of the homes appeared to be on good condition. Few of the streets had sidewalks. Busy 145th Street did but most of Roosevelt Way N did not. Some stretches of Roosevelt were not conducive to walking because the street edges were quite narrow and there was enough traffic to make it dangerous. This church building appears to house a Korean congregation, True Light Church in Seattle, and Converge Northwest, an organization devoted to strengthening churches. Along this 5 mile walk, I spotted four Little Free Libraries. They c

  It was quite cold, today, as my husband and I walked in the Haller Lake neighborhood. Except for 145th, the streets we walked were quiet on this MLK holiday. This modest neighborhood is just west of the manicured grounds of Lakeside School. After taking this photo of one of  Lakeside's athletic fields (with a huge apartment complex going up in the background), my fingers were too cold to take any more pictures. I wonder what changes the opening of the light rail station at 145th will bring to this area where, except for Lakeside additions, not much appears to have changed in the last 13 years. We walked a little over two miles and spotted one Little Free Library which contained mostly children's books.

  A friend and I started the New Year with a walk in the Wallingford neighborhood. One of the first things we saw was a tree swing. It seemed appropriate for this tidy area just south of Green Lake, east of Woodland Park and north of the Good Shepherd Center. We spotted a rabbit who sat still long enough for us to take its picture. One resident had decorated all the trees in its parking strips with holiday decorations. On this 2.6 mile walk, we passed Keystone United Church of Christ and three Little Free Libraries. They contained children's books, novels, travel, self-help and religious books, text books and classics.

  Back in the Haller Lake neighborhood again, I got another view of the lake from the dead-end street at 128th and Meridian. This viewpoint with its public access is smaller than yesterday's. The area I walked today included quite a bit of property owned by institutions or public entities. I spotted Ingraham High School, the Haller Lake United Methodist Church, Little People's World, Lakeside School, Helene Madison Pool, Haller Lake Market, the Haller Lake Community Club, and ... ... the Chinese-Vietnamese Buddhist Association. I also noted a large painted rock. This path connects two ends of Ashworth Avenue between 125th and 128th and it looks as if the sidewalk along 130th has been extended across Ashworth to make 128th and Ashworth a dead-end street. Along this 4 mile walk, I passed four Little Free Libraries. They contained children's books (a few in Korean), cookbooks, novels, and some Christmas decorations.

  On today's walk in the Haller Lake neighborhood, I was rewarded with a view of the lake. After walking down a dead-end street at Densmore and 125th, I came to a lovely spot with a picnic table, a bench and lake access. There are many private lanes and single family homes surrounding the lake. There are some quiet streets surrounding the lake but the neighborhood has a little bit of everything. I passed Northwest Hospital (noting a land use action sign proposing a rezone to height limit), a trailer park (probably the last in the north end), apartments, businesses along Aurora, a household hazardous waste site, North Seattle Church, and lots of cemeteries. Walking along the northwest end of Evergreen Washeli Cemetery, I spotted Pacific Lutheran Cemetery, ... ... the Orthodox Brotherly Cemetery of Saint Nicholas, ... ... Seattle Historic Sephardic Cemetery, ... ... and Bikup Cholum Cemetery. There are more cemeteries here too, but that's for another walk when I go looking for a