I know it when I see it!”

What is so special about Seattle?

This is a question I get asked a surprising number of times every year.

And it is not just directed at Seattle, but at the entire NW---GIVEN ALL THAT DAMN RAIN!

It is asked, almost without exception, by people who have never been here.

Everyone knows the old statement about Art and pornography: “I can’t define it but I know it when I see it!”

Well Seattle and the NW is kind of like that.

The other day I was on a roof in downtown Seattle using my new Fuji S2700 and took this picture of Mt Rainier.

Like I said---I know it when I see it.