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{"id":"1267914042","text":"The lamp at <a href='http://www.mollymoonicecream.com/'>Molly Moon's</a>. The maple walnut ice cream is quite delicious. The salted caramel not so much."},
{"id":"1267900006","text":"Sunset over the Olympic Mountains."},
{"id":"1267808865","text":"Flowers alongside the canal in Fremont."},
{"id":"1266613165","text":"Ran into this at my local supermarket. I really just wanted some sprite and was tempted to take one right from the middle."},
{"id":"1266232576","text":"Olympic flame, Vancouver. Taken through a hole in the fence.  Unfortunately, this is as close as you can get."},
{"id":"1265550976","text":"Fruit vendor at Pike Place Market"},
{"id":"1265213868","text":"Lights at UW South Lake Union"},
{"id":"1264955072","text":"Seattle Art Museum"},
{"id":"1263933664","text":"Heirloom tomatoes"},
{"id":"1263215287","text":"Who knew <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling'>curling</a> required such precise instruments.  This one is measuring the distance from the center of the circle to the stone with a precision of 1/1000 of an inch."},
{"id":"1262818969","text":"The view from lakeview bridge."},
{"id":"1262266151","text":"Thanks to Eclipse, I am now 'Goth Ito'"},
{"id":"1262007164","text":"A sunny alley in La Verne, CA."},
{"id":"1261958924","text":"This is a photo of my great, great grandmother, taken in Japan. My grandma recently gave it to my mom along with some other old photos."},
{"id":"1261861448","text":"Excellent advice."},
{"id":"1261319494","text":"Power station, Claremont, California"},
{"id":"1260657045","text":"Who doesn't like a good 80s cover band? <a href='http://www.seattlepi.com/bands/band.asp?bandID=220'>The Retros</a> at the EMP."},
{"id":"1260227860","text":"I've never seen an ad in this language before.  Google tells me it's Somali."},
{"id":"1260102826","text":"My refrigerator turned into a grizzly crime scene. The victim? A bottle of strawberry soda that somehow managed to freeze and burst."},
{"id":"1260018309","text":"The atrium at Pacific Place."},
{"id":"1259873171","text":"There was a plumbing problem in my apartment that prevented us from using the kitchen, so on Thursday night, we went down to <a href='http://www.yelp.com/biz/chili-basil-thai-grill-seattle'>Chili Basil</a> on Broadway.  I'd ordered takeout from there before, but never eaten in the restaurant -- and I'd never noticed the gorgeous lamps they have hanging by the entry."},
{"id":"1259419631","text":"The apartment complex next door put up these blue LED stars in their trees. I always find blue LEDs particularly stunning -- maybe because they didn't have them when I was a kid."},
{"id":"1259325319","text":"It was sunny and clear for nearly the entire day, a rarity this time of year in Seattle."}];