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Ambling along this damp morning, I was stunned to see two beautiful spiderwebs quivering between their anchor trees. This one looked like an extravagant theater curtain slowly being unfurled. This arachnid architect is sure to catch breakfast, lunch, and dinner in its net. The water clinging to its many strands made this look like a […]
Read More The Eyes of the ForestToday the middle section of the last Kirkland Parkplace building had fallen in by way of behemoth hydraulics. An excavator scraped the innards onto the ground and then into giant trucks which hauled them away to lands unknown. ©2020 H. Hiatt/wildninjablog.com. All articles/posts on this blog are copyrighted original material that may not be reproduced […]
Read More Urban Decay IIThere are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. Hugh MacDiarmid Where were these photographs taken? Sarajevo? Beirut? Chernobyl? That’s what I would guess if I hadn’t taken them. These were taken last Friday in Kirkland, Washington. The last of the Kirkland Parkplace buildings was coming down. The group of brick […]
Read More Urban DecayTuesday, March 12th, 2019. Kirkland, Washington. As traffic screams by on Kirkland Way south of NE 85th Street I pull into a gravel parking lot to get a better view of an old white house on the east side. When I’d passed it the previous weekend I wondered why I hadn’t investigated it before. I […]
Read More 205 Cedar StreetAugust 15th, 2017: It happened! One year from when Kirkland’s historic Trueblood House last moved, it finally landed in its permanent home. Thank you to the amazing new owners who made room for it and took on the expense. Today’s journey began here on the southeast corner of 1st Street and 7th Avenue where the […]
Read More Up and OverOn Wednesday, August 17th, Kirkland, Washington’s Trueblood House was moved around the corner to a temporary location until a buyer can be found. KIRO News had their helicopter in the air for the actual move and cameras on the ground. The move began at 11 A.M. It was supposed to take up to three hours. […]
Read More Yours for $116,500Tomorrow, August 17th, 2016, at 11 A.M., the 1889 Trueblood House in Kirkland, Washington is going to move a block or so. The power lines in front will come down and it will be carefully rolled forward to 7th Avenue between two poles, one of which already has a pronounced lean. The owner offered to give […]
Read More Ready to RollJust across a shining sea from the Emerald City, up a meandering path through an enchanted forest, sits a castle. Ages ago, an order of religious men built this castle to train their priests. It had a divine purpose. There they lived and worked. Decades passed, and almost half a century later, its original purpose […]
Read More Saving St. Edward“Yeah, I could see that,” I thought to myself as I stood under the rich reddish rafters of the almost 80 year-old building. I could picture farm-fresh flowers and laughter lighting up the whitewashed main hall once again, sunbeams dancing through the Depression-era windows as footsteps clomped up and down the stairs. Inwardly I smiled. […]
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