Peering through alleys at the edge of Pioneer Square is like looking back in time…and back into the present again. Architecture and stories, colors of the brick and stone… mysteries of moments long since gone.Beauty and history…the good and the bad… fleeting moments.

Bits of sage…

2nd and Washington. Pioneer Square…on a rainy Thursday afternoon. #seattle #rain #pioneersquare

Autumn afternoon at the Pergola…Pioneer Square. Built in 1909…it’s always been a corner for many conversations. It may seem different now…but the history remains.

Autumn conversations…

As evening falls…

Bus cameo and dashes of Autumn make the courthouse a lovely canvas…cruising home through 3rd and Cherry. King County CourthouseConstructed 1914-1916

Just when you think everything has changed…take a stroll down Jackson, in Pioneer Square, as the sun is coming over Beacon Hill.

I always imagine this stretch of 1st Ave without the modern vehicles or street signs…At the turn of the last century, things still smelled weird, there were still unsavories; the past just always seems a bit more romantic.It is interesting how we remember “better times” and yet, they always seem to stay the same, save for the changing of the seasons.Through the warm light of a Pioneer Square afternoon.