Round Museum

And you thought tomatoes grew on vines? LOL.

10.03.21

Hey, Frisky, you dropped something. It’s rolling right here on the sidewalk like a tumbleweed in the desert. Did you have this thing brushed out, or did you cough it up?

10.02.21

A stack of nested iron skillets is at the ready this morning. There are three, so a full breakfast can happen all at once. Throw in a few rashers of bacon, eggs over easy, maybe bake a half dozen buttermilk easy drop biscuits. Holler when it's ready!

10.01.21

The intricate, lacy Nigella damascena is a lovely garden "romantic", producing blooms of white, blue, pink or purple. Growing up to two feet tall, the flowers are commonly called "Love in a mist" because their beauty is encased by a delicate, ruffly collar of small bracts that resemble a mist.

09.30.21

Uh oh, we're at a critical moment here. Last lonely lil' hushpuppy just sitting there. Who gets it? Should we arm wrestle? Eeeny, meeny, miney, moe? Rock, paper, scissors? Bar fight? What would be a fair and appropriate decision making process?

09.29.21

Swirling behind this Round window is a frozen concoction of water, carbon dioxide, and the Original Blue Raspberry flavor mix just waiting to be dispensed. Once upon a time in 1958 Omar Knedlik's soda machine broke, so he did what any respectable Dairy Queen owner would do -- put the bottles in his freezer to keep them cold. And... voilà! An accidental frozen soda soon became an ICEE empire! Go ahead, push the paddle and fill that striped cup right to the clear domed top.

09.28.21

In the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Kerry Park provides a great overlook of the city. Viewed through the Round is Elliott Bay, and as you move around this 15-foot sculpture you can also see the Space Needle and Mt. Rainier. Since 1971 the steel geometry may be one of the most climbed-over, sat-upon and posed-in-front-of artworks in the city. The upper portion can be moved to change the sculpture's shape.

Changing Form
Doris Chase, 1971
Seattle, WA

09.27.21

The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection at the Morris Museum includes an impressive array of 750 historic mechanical musical instruments and automata (mechanical figures), as well as more than 5,000 programmed media, including player piano rolls, pinned cylinders, and music box discs. This punched metal disc is played on a Regina music box using a hand-cranked spring to drive the circular motion of the disc. Double steel combs brush over the staggered holes, and the teeth of a gear engage the hole and then pluck the comb tine to create a precise musical pitch.

Rising up from the eastern horizon, a full moon shows it’s face to the evening waves. The moon exerts a gravitational force affecting the tides’ sway from low to high, a calming metronome as the sun sets to the west.

09.25.21

This security guard is a vicious cutie, all curled up in her storefront cubby. She's got her eye on you. If you break in here you could suffer a very serious scratching.

09.24.21