THIS is why...

...I love Seattle. Days like this--sunny, warm, blue sky, a gift delivered between the gray rainy gloomy weeks. Today and tomorrow are going to be those gifts, before the next drift of rain settles in.
DH and I went over to Seattle, to the Montlake Cut, which is a channel connecting Lake Union and Lake Washington. Saturday was the Opening Day of Boating Season, so there is a lot of traffic through the Cut right now. The old bridge that spans the cut...
...can be opened to allow passage to sailboats with masts that are too high to go under the closed bridge.
There was a small flotilla of tall-masted sail boats, waiting to go through the opened bridge. You can see the Cascade Mts. in the background. What a DAY!!!This is the bridgekeeper's tower, where he can see up and down the cut, and operate the bridge when the boats signal. He can see Seattle, the Olympic Mts., and the Cascade Mts. Not a bad place to work, and lots of gorgeous boats to watch.