Seattle Landmarks

I really enjoyed downtown Seattle and took a lot of photos.  There seems to be a high priority of an asthetic quality to the architecture.  Of course there's the famous Pikes Market, while its nothing special in its physical form it's fame comes from its character.  There's hundreds of stalls where you can find anything from leather works to blown glass works.  I bought a couple of watercolor prints from an old Chinese artist.

Here's downtown Seattle from one of the vacant piers on the waterfront:

Here's the hardest working man in Seattle, outside the art museum is a mechanical sculpture of this blacksmith figure that just keeps on swinging his hammer 'round the clock: