Seattle’s Pike Place Market is a browsing, and eating paradise.
Could you resist buying from this cow? I couldn’t. I think the bedazzled pink tennis shoes are an especially nice touch and I think all cows should have them. 🐮🐮🐮
The quantity of stunning flowers, particularly the dahlias, are incredible.
The produce, fish and food stalls, will keep you occupied and eating for hours. Don’t eat before you visit here!
There is a Miss Biggy-Piggy for messages,
and lovely places to eat outdoors and watch the ships sail in to port.
Don’t miss The Giant Shoe Museum (actually you could, but don’t tell anyone I said this).
There are many stalls to explore filled with handmade art like these detailed miniature flowers in their tiny pots (click to enlarge and see the detail).
Cheers to you from the enticing Pikes Place Market~
I love Pike Place… but haven’t been there for several years. Obviously I need to get back! Your images are so beautifully sharp. Do you shoot full manual?
It is so wonderful with so much to see & eat, two of my favorite things to do, laughing….. I do generally shoot manual. I wish I could go back to the market tomorrow!!!
What cheerful and very beautiful photos on this dreary day! It has been decades since I have been to Pike’s Place!
I am glad it cheered your drear! It took me decades to get here, which is a mistake on my part. It really is wonderful.
Needless to say but the photos were great and what a fun place this looks like‼️❌⭕️
Thanks Natalie! It is a lot of fun and I am hungry now so I wish I was there now.
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Giant donuts, hand-tied bunches of flowers at two-fer prices, best takeaway mac-&-cheese on the planet from Beechers Handmade Cheese, fab coffee of course (it IS Seattle), AND a quick rub of Rachel the Pig’s nose for luck–now I’m really missing Seattle!
Thanks for a wonderful post and say hi to Rachel for me.
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That mac n’ cheese is killer isn’t it but I missed the giant donuts! I’ll have to go back. Wish I could right now!
If you were near I would take my camera and sit at your feet! You turn water into wine (with apologies for the metaphor to you know Who)!
Awww, so kind of you and so appreciated too! Makes my morning!
Oh, all these photos made me smile! The pretty cow is so amoozing and what a unique flower pork. LOL! ☆*✲ﾟ*｡(((´♡‿♡`+)))｡*ﾟ✲*☆
I am trying hard to convince myself that I shouldn’t look for a cow flower vase on ebay!!! 🐮🐮
I’m sure it’s not easy to reMOOve the thought though. LOL! ヾ(´▽｀;)ゝ
You r so wonderful! <3 <3
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What an awesome place to visit! As for the shoes, when they probably taste a bit leathery lol Lovely as always, Cindy <3
Tee hee hee…. 🐮🐮🐮
What a delight!
I agree the pink tennis shoes on the cow are a must!
As always these are stunning photographs. Thank you for bringing all that joy to my morning coffee.
May 2017 be kind and gentle to you and loved ones.
Awww, thank you for a comment that made my morning!
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The 🐮 and I thank you!
I’m entrigued with the ‘shoes of mystery’!
Laughing. We have free range cows at The Holler. You KNOw what I want to do, but it’s just too many hooves to shoe! 🐮🐮
Yes, I don’t think they’d co-operate. I’ve just spotted my appalling spelling mistake, shows how often I have to use the word.
Apparently you missed my my typo in response to yours. Typos, and the people who make them, are my best friends. We think more than spell~ <3
We do, we’re onto the next thing already!
I’ve heard so much about Pike Place Market though this is the first time I’m seeing what it’s all about! Thanks again Cindy for capturing all the wonderful sights everywhere! It really is incredible that we can have such bright, colorful, flowers in the midst of winter. Happy New Year Cindy! 🙂
Happiest New Year to you Lynn and I look forward to sharing the year with you and the birdies!
Wie schön! Das macht mich im eiskalten Augsburg sehr fröhlich, diese Bilder!
Vielen Dank mein Freund und ein frohes neues Jahr zu Ihnen! 🐮
🙂 Wow, so colorful!!!
Pink glitter suites the 🐮🐮🐮 perfectly!
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More beautiful pictures taken by Cindy.
Your kindness is appreciated by the fashion forward 🐮 and by me! Cheers to you Patricia~
This is one of my favourite places!! Great pictures, brought back good memories. Happy New Year!!
Happiest New Year Darlene and happy to trigger good memories!
You are quite right. All cows should have pink tennis shoes, and a hat (of course). 🙂
I agree with you. The absence of a chapeau is alarming, but in this one case, I do feel the neck tutu was an appropriate substitute. 🐮
I used their book to motivate and train staff for years now I see it here in full colour… full bloom as it were. Thank you for bringing it alive for me.
Thank you for the kind appreciation & cheers~
Most welcome and happy 2017
Hi Cindy, that looks like such a fun place to visit, with lots of attractions. I love the sunflowers! 🙂
Now I know that sunflowers looks best in bunches of around 100!!! 🌻🌻🌻
The first Starbucks is across the street
Yes! I saw it!
Is there a plaque saying such?
It was indicated on the map and listed on tourist info. There may also have been a plaque, I’m not sure~
Did you see the otters swimming around?
No I didn’t see them here, but I see them in Central California now, and I saw them on Vancouver Island ON LAND on this trip, which was really unusual! Throughout my lifetime they had been hunted to the point of extinction so I never saw them even though they are indigenous here, ever, in the wild, until recently. Thank you Monterey Bay Aquarium for bringing them back from extinction! <3
Gorgeous colors and entertaining photos Cindy – especially loved the miniature flowers and the cow. The shoes are too cute as is the hand bag hanging by her neck 😀 And of course the stunning Dahlias 😉
The 🐮 clearly rules the market, and I do agree with you, she is a true fashionista!
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These are beautiful, Cindy. 🙂
The 🐮 and I thank you Ranu!
Love the pictures Cindy, I certainly need to make a trip and visit Pike Place Paradise. Happy Day! 🙂
Don’t eat before you go, and you will be happier than a 🐮 in pink tennies!
It’s been decades since I was there and I’m only 5 hours away. It was so much fun back then though I’m sure it’s changed over the last 30 years. I love the cow with pink tennis shoes and all the flowers. Great photos and I’m envious of all your travel. 🙂
The food is incredible. I, of course, am hungry now, and wishing I had a star trek transporter. I always wish this when I am hungry! 🐮
They are getting closer to transporting the food to us than transporting us to the food easily. Maybe one day. 🙂
I’d go just for the cow in the tennis shoes, what a hoot!
I am repeating this to myself as a mantra that will (surely?) work. “You will not search for a cow vase on ebay…….
One of my most favorite places. Great photos
Merci beaucoup mon ami!
I drink Starbucks Pike Place Coffee, and I believe that is where Starbucks originated,
It is indeed, quite near the market!
Loved this place when I visited with my 2 granddaughters this past summer. How do they find those incredibly beautiful flowers?
I don’t know and in such quantity! I couldn’t fit all the flowers in one photo~
I’ve been to the Pike Place market before on vacation trips to Seattle and love watching the fish market clerks throwing fish out to people when they bought one. It was so entertaining. 🙂 The many flowers are beautiful and such a variety, too.
It was a bummer to go to this market and not have access to a kitchen. If I lived there, I would haunt the place for fresh fish!
When we were there in the summer months there was one whole section filled with different kinds of fresh or frozen fish, so they kind of made it entertaining tossing around their fish like confetti. 🙂
Wonderful photos and color, especially love the pink tennis shoes on the cow!
I am a bit afraid the 🐮 is going to have a big head now, just like those Victorias Secret runway models!
What? No pictures of aerial fish? (At the fish market if I remember correctly.) Your subject matter is always photogenic and your execution photo genius. Thank you for sparing us the obligatory photo of the original Starbucks, though I too consider myself the sole support of the corporation through my frequent purchases.
Laughing. I have recurring fantasies about being able to beam over (I am somewhat of a Trekkie) to Riquewhihr France for cookies, Passau Germany for chocolate, and Pikes Place Market for clam chowder. Can you tell I am trying to lose my Christmas 4?
Only 4? I wish!
😉 😉
This looks like a fun adventure. Thanks for the cheery photos Cindy!
Happiest New Year to you Brad and I look forward to sharing 2017 with you!
Thanks Cindy. All the best for you and yours.
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Your photos make me feel like I’m taking a trip to sunny climates, Cindy. Thanks for sharing.
Leslie
Awww, your comment made me smile on a cloudy morning!
You made me smile too, thanks Cindy.
Leslie
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The cow & pig are hilarious!
Aren’t they wonderful! Someone is quite creative~ 🐮
I loved them – while they wouldn’t go with our decor, I would love to have something like that that made me laugh when I looked at it/them.
Exactly! It is very important to have somethings around you that make you laugh~
This is why I share amusing jpgs so often – IMHO, humor is good medicine.
Beautiful and very sharp pictures…
Thanks much and Happy New Year!
Is this the market where they toss a fish up to the next floor for customers? 🙂 Great shots 🙂
The fish toss is great isn’t it….. although not so much for the fish! 🐟🐟
Ya, caught and tossed into the air lol not exactly the life it expected 😄😄
Unless it was a salmon jumping up the falls!!
exactly! 😄😄
You rock Andy. Happy New Year!
cheers! ^.^
I truly enjoy visiting Seattle, but Pike Place is one place where we have spent hours exploring. It truly is a highlight when seeing Seattle. As always, wonderful photos, Cindy. :O)
It would be so wonderful to shop and cook here regularly, especially for the fresh 🐟🐟!
Can you imagine? How nice that would be! :O)
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I love Pike Place Market! Thanks for the photos of one of my favorite places !
Thanks much and I can see why it is a favorite!
That is a colorful and green place to visit! I’ve only been to Seattle twice, and on direct business, so I never had the chance to look around.
It is a really fun city, designed for walking and exploring. I hope you can go back and sneak away for a bit of personal exploration!
I wish this wasn’t on the coast opposite to me. The cow reminds me of one that stands in the town of Northeast, Maryland…although it doesn’t have those delightful pink sneakers. Great post.
It is a crying shame that poor Maryland 🐮 doesn’t have sneakers! It gets cold in Maryland. Maybe if we got the Seattle cow some flip-flops, she might be willing to donate her tennies. Poor 🐮!
What a neat place! I especially love the last photo of the miniature flowers. Our skies are dreary gray today and we’re awaiting an Arctic front, so this shot of spring flowers with the hope they bring is especially appealing!
So glad it brightened your day Debbie. I have heard about all these cold fronts. Hope you can curl up by the fire with a nice blog!!!
And a cup of hot cocoa, ha!!
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This place looks like one, I would like to visit too Cindy 🙂
Very beautiful photos of so many lovely flowers.
The quantity and size of the flowers were amazing. They had those gorgeous plate dahlias~
Wonderful!!
Merci beaucoup mon ami!
Have you ever recorded the many miles you travel a year!!!? Love following you wherever you go!
I hadn’t thought of that! It would be fascinating. We are home now. These photos were from September. We actually are home for four solid months now which is the longest period in almost a decade!
Thank you for taking me on an adventure today! Wish we had better access to such wonderful fruits and veggies here.
Exactly how I feel! The freshness is so appealing.
Some day I’m going to visit Pike’s.
Please post when you do!!!
What an enchanting place! And I adore the cow with sneakers! Thanks for sharing this … I just wish it weren’t on the opposite side of the country! 🙂
I know just how you feel! I want to shop here weekly but it would require a plane ride~
Pike Place is always fun place to visit, Cindy. I like the flowers but where are the fish? 🙂 BTW, someone should tell that cow to tie her shoe strings before she trips over them. Wonder how many times I heard that advice from my mother? –Curt
I know. I thought the exact same thing. But, then, I have to stop myself from interfering in other cows lives. I mean who I am to tell a cow to tie her shoes?
Well, of course you are right Cindy. She looked like she was a grownup cow, or at least a teenager, and hardly in the moo’d for advice. 🙂 –Curt
I have been, and it’s fantastic! Not at all claustrophobic, despite the hoardes of people and the constant activity!
The hordes of people are an issue, almost like in the Vatican Museum now. They attract people for good reason, but too many cooks spoil the stew.
Although it’s only 2-3 hours up the road, I still haven’t made it to the Pike Place market. Maybe one of these years.
BTW, I remember you were a bit peeved about the new Reader format; I just discovered the desktop version of WordPress is still running the old Reader…
Thank you for the heads up! I will find it. I guess WP tends to do this, like the old stats page. Other bloggers would probably like to know this too, so you might want to let them know. Thanks again Dave & cheers to you!
Dreamy! It’s one of those places when going is unforgettable 🙂 Great pics!
Yes, it keeps popping into my brain whenever I’m hungry! 🍽 🍰🍕🍦
Perfectly reasonable!
I love Seattle and Pike Place market! Awesome pics sweetie! Hugz Lisa and Bear
Hugs back 2U2! <3
I need to remember this place in case I have a chance to visit there in the future. There are many interesting things to see. I like the Biggy-Piggy. Cute.
There are a lot of fun, creative people involved in this market & I love Miss Piggy too! 🐷🐷
Beautiful, wonderful, colorful and fun. You can’t ask for more than that. Hope your New Year is already fabulous.
Thanks my friend. The New Year is off and running and I am on a diet, have to lose the 4 pounds I gained at the market!!! 🐷
It’s a wonderful market. I was there years ago.
Fortunately we have the St. Lawrence Market, Kensington Market and others in Toronto. In the summer and fall there are small markets all over the city. Beautiful shots!!!
I need to visit you in Toronto so we can go eat!!!! 🍽 🍰🍕🍦
I’d like that!
I was thinking today about what you would love to see out here in eastern Canada.
Besides the food & street art tour I would take you on in Toronto:
Have you been to Niagra Falls, the Niagra escarpment, Quebec City or the Maritimes (especially Lunenburg which is a UNESCO World Heritage site)}?
I think you could make a great tour out here.
Niagra Falls is outstanding, even though the town itself has become carnival of tourism.
You might like northern Ontario’s rugged beauty, although after British Columbia it could be a let down.
We have a lot of beaver up north. They are so very cute, but boy do they make a mess with their dams.
Anyway, we don’t have Polar Bears here, but if you end up in Manitoba, you might as well consider Toronto, Niagra Falls & Quebec City.
OH… the train ride from Toronto to Ottawa is fab. Ottawa, our country’s capital is worth a visit on the way to Quebec City.
Just a warning, this is Canada’s 150th birthday year, so do not travel to Ottawa in late June or early July. 😀 😀
Oh this would be so wonderful! I have been to Quebec and loved it, and stayed in a cabin in the woods north of Quebec where I saw all sorts of unusual and wonderful wildlife. I have been to Montreal and all around that area. I have been to some of the Maritimes, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Novia Scotia and the amazing Bay of Fundy. I posted on all these spectacular places. I had generations of family in Nova Scotia. But I have never been to Niagra Falls or Lunenberg or Toronto and I would very much like to go. I have only seen a few beaver in my lifetime. We were going to go to Churchill via Winnipeg in September as you know, but have instead opted for a wildlife expedition cruise in Norway, Iceland and Greenland. There would be a much better chance to see polar bears in Churchill, but we (my husband especially) wanted to go deeper into the northern arctic circle. Someday soon I will be heading your way, will visit all these places, and will come and look you up Resa and that is a promise! <3
I miss your blog a lot while I was on hiatus, Cindy! Happy 2017 and I look forward to your beautiful posts this year! 💗
Welcome back and I look forward to sharing 2017 with you! <3
Haha, I was just there today! Visiting family over the New Year. I love Seattle. 🙂
Great minds shop and eat alike Carrie! 🍽 🍰🍕🍦
How delightful. I would happily spend my time here.
It has lots of the things I love! 🍦🍟🍕🍰🍩 🙂
The kind of place where I could happily spend a whole day. Starting off with an emtpy stomach and a camera in my hand. ;.) Lovely photos, as always.
All the best for 2017, Cindy!
You would be engaging in two of my most favorite activities eating & photography, so why not do them both at the same time!!!! 🙂 🍽 🍰🍕🍦📷
Wait for me, Cindy. I’m packing!
I’m sure we’ll have lots of fun and some inspiring conversations! 🙂
If you visit Canterbury, please make sure to visit this divine place:
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I was last in Canterbury at age 17! It looks like it’s well past time for a revisit. Plus I have never been to Cornwall and Wales. The market is so visually appealing in the old building. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to do a food and photography tour of the world for bloggers who love all three things! Cheers to you my friend & be well~
Cold, wind, bare trees, snow…, won’t see any of those beautiful flowers and sunshine here for another 3 months, Cuz. Right now it’s 19deg and snowing here. Oh, well….., this too shall pass. Starting to make plans for winter vacation. 52ft yacht this year. More about that as it develops. Stay warm ! 🙂
Oh how wonderful! Can’t wait to hear where you are going & stay warm! 🔥☕
That’s exactly what I’m doing right now, Cuz,……., a warm cup of coffee by the fire !!! Ha 🙂
Of course you are. We’re related!
Such a colorful and beautiful place to casually browse and stroll through, Cindy! I like the flowers, the pink shoes on the cow and the different foods! A sumptuous “feast for the eyes!” Thank you, dear friend. xo
Missy 🐮 and I thank you Robin and we both wish you The Happiest & Healthiest New Year! Look forward to sharing 2017 with you~
Lovely place – it looks like you made the most of your visit, always a happy serendipity in travel 🙂
Food and photos always works for me!!!! 😉
The Giant Shoe Museum made me laugh. I guess there is a museum for everything!
I wonder though, what the patrons of this museum might be like???? Laughing~
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This is one of many places that I miss! I used to live 10 blocks away from the Pike Place Market, and would walk there every Sunday to do my shopping…and, do the Pike Place Stair-climb!
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Oh, lucky you! It would be such a great place for a weekly grocery run! Cheers to you my friend and thank you too! <3
If you’re still in Seattle the Underground Tour is pretty interesting.
Now I will google this! I never heard of it. We are home, but it may will land on our bucket list. Thanks for the heads up~
It seems so wonderfully delightful Cindy! I have relatives up there I will have to visit!
Happy New Year to you my dear sister and friend! May your heart and spirit always be embraced by Gods love! You are a precious gem!!!
Thank you dear Wendell & Happiest New Year to you and yours. I do hope you visit the market. It makes for a wonderful day! Cheers to you my friend~
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Thank you for your kind thoughtfulness & have a wonderful weekend!
You are welcome! Hope your weekend is great also!
Thank you for taking us there Cindy!
Happy you came along Maria~
I love that place. Great photos, Cindy. Did you see the flying fish? That’s my favorite part 😀
I did! It is a wonderful experience isn’t it~ 🌻
A show for us tourists, but still great fun 🙂
Oh, what fun! This is my kind of place.
I can see why and hope you visit sometime!
Me too. 🙂
Good memories of the market from living on Queen Anne’s Hill then Capitol Hill 35 years ago.
Oscar
It must have been wonderful and much less crowded then~
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I would not like a week..let alone the first of the year to pass without enjoying one of Cindy Knokes photographic posts.. What a wonderful place .. Seattle’s Pike’s Place Market.. could spend hours in there..
What a thoughtful friend you are! Thank you for your kindness & enjoy your weekend Sally. Wish I could send you some 🌻🌻🌻!
Thank you Cindy.. hopefully you will come to Ireland at some point. A little like the holler.. wonderful native species but wetter! hugs
I have been but only just briefly. We both want to return and spend much more time~
Great…would be lovely to meet you both. x
super schön, schönes Wochenende wünsche ich
Danke schoen mein lieber Freund und frohe Wochenende! 🌻
Enjoyed accompanying you to the colorful market today. Wishing you a wonderful 2017 Cindy.
Best from Ruth in Pittsburgh
Thank you Ruth and stay warm. Even California is getting hit by these polar expresses. We needed it though, but the temperatures your way are serious. Stay safe~ 🌻
Lovely! When did you visit? It’s so much fun to see the sights and hear the sounds of Pike Street! It’s a little crazy, too! 🙂
It is fun crazy. We were there in September~ 🌻
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Thank you for sharing, they brighten up the day here in the cold and snow.
I can’t believe the temperatures I am seeing across much of the continent. Stay warm & safe!🌻 🌻
Cindy, Oh how I loved these markets no matter where we lived. The sights, sounds, smells, tastes, compositions and sensations are always what make up the whole. I can wander for hours wanting to take every element into my soul. The row upon row of dazzling colors and chaotic movement. How can one choose between the beautifully colored fresh flowers, the glazed pot or fingering different types of glazed pottery? I’d always leave with the feeling I should go home and redecorate my house to go with the flower I purchased that very day. I never remember leaving such a market without fresh flowers [if traveling they would be for our hotel suite] and if at home, well I had to have enough for every room when I already had beautiful flowers in my gardens. You’ve taken us on a magical journey once again.
We all need some magic don’t we Sheri! You are like me. When I was younger, I would take the kids to our local ranunculus field. They grow them for the bulbs and let you pick as many flowers as you wanted as long as you used scissors to cut them. I filled many trunks with Ranunculus and all the rooms of the house too! Now the fields are under new ownership and you can no longer do this. Wish I could send you some 🌻🌻🌻!
Me too. When we lived along the central coast of California, I had something in bloom outside every window year round. Of course that’s out of the question here. Of course, the flower markets were so reasonable, I stopped each Monday morning and picked the flowers I wanted for my office each week and flowers for my secretary’s desk. Fresh flowers were such an important part of the magic and never once did I think about one day I might have to leave that behind. Oh the memories. We had a neighbor that grew fields of dalheias and of course growing up in Kansas there were field after field of Sunflowers growing all straight and tall. My brother and I could play hide and seek in them. It was all magic and so far away from reality. Thanks for brining me some magic along with the flowers.
Bonjour CINDY et bon jour de l’Epiphanie,
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L’amitié d’un jour peut durer toujours
C’est une chose naturelle quand elle est virtuelle
Donner sans attendre en retour
Ce petit bonheur d’un petit coucou
On se remonte le moral, quand on est mal
On ne se fait pas de peine, on ne connait pas la haine
Les kilomètres nous séparent mais rien de grave
Ce qui la rend belle, c’est cette étincelle de l’amitié
Que l’on ne peut pas acheter
Je te souhaite une excellente journèe
Gros bisous
Bernard
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Merci beaucoup mon ami Bernard. Meilleurs voeux! 🌻🌻🌻
I love this place. Quirky, lovely, and appetizing.
Adjectives describing everything I love!!! Cheers to you Nancy~ 🌻🌻
Wow, these photos are almost life-like. Gorgeous color! 🙂
You are a sweetie to say so! Have a great weekend~
Thanks Cindy, you too. 🙂
A fascinating market. I could spend days there because I love wandering where there is food and magnificent color. Love the sharp, intense colors. Thank you for sharing, Cindy. The photos are amazing. 🙂
Yes! Food and color do it for me too! Thanks much my friend and happy Saturday!
Happy Monday. I’m two days late. o_O 😀
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I love Pike Place…such excitement. The flower women are my favorite to photograph along with the fish throwers! Great post, Cindy.
Glad you enjoyed and have a wonderful Sunday Jane~
Gotta love the cow in the pink sneakers!
She’s a fashion forward bovine!!! 🐮🐮 Happiest New Year dear Antionette~
Oh, Cindy, you just brightened my day! I love Pike Place Market and you caught some of the best highlights. We only live 3 hours away and I am sad to say I haven’t been there for years. These pictures put me right back there! Thanks, friend.
So happy you enjoyed and Happy Saturday evening to you dear Lydia and peaceful dreams to you tonight my friend! <3 <3
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So that’s how the market looks on a sunny day. 🙂 Lovely shots. Next time, I’m coming back when it’s sunny!
That is definitely the biggest challenge in Seattle! Good luck!
wow!!! What a pretty place!
Glad you enjoyed & cheers to you~
I love Pike Place Market. To me it is the center of Seattle capturing the vibe of the city
It does do that, and Seattle’s vibe is very cool!
A salve for winter-frozen souls. Thanks, Cindy, and I’m wishing you a happy new year, to you and your loved ones.
Ahhh, same to you and yours dear Cynthia! I so look forward to sharing 2017 with you my friend. Stay warm & safe! <3
Lovely visit to Pike Place, Cindy. I’ve been here a few times and it’s a little overwhelming for me with so many people, so your post here did a great job of keeping the focus on the beauty, color, lively joy, and magnificence of the market. A bright spot in this beautiful city.
It is inundated with people and I share that overwhelmed feeling. The solution is to have Pikes Place Markets in every city so we don’t have to go there to experience it!
You make me homesick Cindy for a place I loved in the 90s. XOX
I can well imagine! It is such a fun, creative, vibrant city~ <3
You know, I’ve never trekked to Seattle and that’s a shame. I love all the color and flowers. The dining patio is sublime, what a grande way to dine el-fresco. I’d probably stay all afternoon. Can it be this summery there right now? We’re waking to -27 in the morning, LOL ! Does that sound insane? It is! I have to laugh, otherwise I go a little mad over winter. xo K
-27 is seriously intense and it must get very stressful over time. I was in -50 below once with wind chill and never want to experience that again. It was difficult to breathe. Stay warm and safe. 🔥 ☕
These photos were taken in September. Seattle will be cold, rainy, slushy, snowy now. Palm Springs in nice now. There are always lots of Canadians in Palm Springs this time of year! <3
LOL, I’m sure there are. I hope they’re behaving ha!
Of course, Like Meryl Streep just said, “Canadians are the nicest people!” <3
Lovely pictures <3
Tu fotos tan bien~ <3
Hey Cindy– I’ve always wanted to spend an afternoon in PIke’s Place market!! It’s on my Travel List (for when Larry retires!). Thanks for all the bright and beautiful flowers. You do get around!!! Hope your year is starting off well… xox
Be prepared for crowds at the market. This is the only downside next to the probability for rain. Cheers to you my friend~
Love that cow with the red sneakers 🙂 <3
The 🐮 thinks you are discerning with excellent taste! 😉 😉
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Just love your pictures, Cindy.
So kind of you & so appreciated to! Thank you~ <3
You get to see such a variety of places Cindy, I loved my photo catch up 😃
I think we are going to be able to say exactly the same thing about you my dear and more power to you! Seeing the world is an amazing thing to do! <3
You are talking my language here. I love Pike Place Market! My husband had to drag me out. The worst part was having no kitchen in my hotel room. I was unable to buy all the beautiful food since I had nowhere to cook! 🙂
Exactly what I thought! If I lived near, I’d be shopping there each week and cooking what I bought. I think this whenever I travel and see really exceptional local sourced markets. I want to shop and cook! We did this once in Italy and are going to do it about two months in Alsace. We have a farmers market where I live but it doesn’t hold a candle to the really good ones like Pike Place.
I will look forward to reading all about your Alsace adventures!
The only challenge will be cooking myself some nights instead of eating the Alsatian food which is my most favorite in the world!
Thank you Cindy. 🙂
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Pike Place! A wonderful place, and you shot it very well.
Thanks much & cheers to you!
Ah, this brings such lovely memories. I fell in love in Seattle 23 years ago this month. 😊 Pike place, the waterfront, the ferries….yup, sweet, sweet memories indeed! (Recently celebrated 22 years of marriage with my Seattle man. ❤️)
Awww, congratulations on your anniversary with both your husband and Seattle! Sounds like wonderful memories! <3
Thank you for your visit, Cindy. 🙂
<3
Wow, so much to see and experience at Pike Place! I’ve been there but never noticed the Giant Shoe Museum! I’ll have to check that out some day!
Laughing, its a reaaaaally big shoe show!!! 😉
I love the black and white cow with the cutest face and pink shoes! You have given me smiles as well as my Mom. Hugs, Robin xo
Tell you mother hello for me and hugs to you Robin! <3
Love Pike Place! We try to get at least one quick visit in whenever we get back home for family time, but the latter is bound to limit the former sometimes. 😉 Great pictorial tour.
xoxo
Well, it’s good you have your priorities straight!
It’s a very creative and rewarding place to visit and so much to take in.great overview