Seattle train station neat photos
back in May- 5/1/2011 and 5/15/2011, I wrote 2 posts: Train to Seattle and More on the Seattle train station restoration. Here’s some new photos of how the inside of the train station looked way back when… 1940’s?
Below is how the balcony looked like. I don’t know what they used it for and I’m still curious.
Next photo is what the same area looked like this October 2011 when I was there catching a train.
The lunch counter (below)
I would have loved to sit here and have a cup of coffee out of those Urns on the counter! Sorry for not having a current photo of the space as it looks now, but I think I had too many photos in my camera and it stopped storing them even though I did take a picture of the barren area.
See the ice box way on the back wall with a waitress standing in front of it? The icebox has a plant on top of it. That exact spot is where the big write up and photos were that I am displaying. The pillars are still there and the floor is empty- just a big space.
This next photo (below) is very interesting and I can’t place the current location as I was looking around from wall to wall last month when I was there, but you see the parcel room to the left. Did packages come in on the train? The booth to the right must have been candy, cigars… things like that sold there. Is that fresh fruit in boxes on the floor in front of the parcel room?
Women’s waiting room
As I took these photos from pictures on the wall (the wall where the luncheon counter was), I seem to remember that this Women’s waiting room was upstairs. Isn’t this room neat? A women’s waiting room- nice idea. Furniture looks turn of the century which may be the time period of the photo too.
Hope you enjoyed reliving the past from the Seattle WA train station.
tangelos #4383
chart shows when these are in season These are the best tangelos/Minneola’s and I found them at Wal-Mart for 48 cents a piece. Dumb me, I only bought 2. If you notice on the chart when they are in season, it tells you February through April. Might as well eat them all winter!
They are a cross between a grapefruit and an orange which makes them so tangy. I was pleasantly surprised to find something very good at Wal-Mart when I found these!
Earl Gray Tea
4th tea sample post from the Upton Tea I’ve been sampling. Have been doing one a month. March is the last one.
Earl Gray tea is what I’m drinking this winter. I have two different kinds from Upton Tea. First one is Extra Bergamot Earl Gray which is tea (usually black tea) with bergamot oil in it and this one has a lot of extra bergamot in it; very very fragrant. Upton Tea’s page on this Earl Gray tea When brewing Earl Gray tea I find that if it’s too weak; it makes awful tea, but if it is strong enough- the tea is great.
Bergamot oil is aromatic and goes great in tea. It’s the oil from the rind of the little lemon/orange like citrus bergamot that flavors the tea. The next tea I tried from Upton Tea is Earl Gray Supreme. Earl Gray Supreme tea This one has Assam tea in it.
(below is a photo of an 1873 ANTIQUE VICTORIAN ENGLISH STERLING SILVER BOXED AFTERNOON TEA SERVICE 2nd photo close up of the spoons and tongs for the sugar)The two under the teapot are the sugar bowl and cream jug.
See the small shell spoon? It is called a caddy spoon to measure the loos tea into the teapot. Isn’t that neat! and was common in the 1800’s.
The Lost Queen of Egypt
I love the last 1/4 of the book… the turn of events… this is a momentous love story!
What a fascinating book. Go to amazon and read all the 51 reviews of people who read this book as a 6th grader and have fond memories of it. This was written by Lucile Morrison in 1939; it’s the story of King Tut’s wife- Ankhsenpaaten (the spelling was changed later on in her life).
Starts out kind of slow… but just you wait! It’s a beautiful love story and I think some of it is true. I’d like to think it all was true, but of course it’s fiction mixed in with historical facts. Finding the facts after you read the book is revealing too. That old guy did get the throne as I found out while looking up the history.
I loved this book. Suspense builds after King Tut is dead, then it really gets good which is the end of the book. Never thought it would end that way! Did it really happen? I don’t know. I want to tell you about it, but don’t want to give away the ending of the book. I highly recommend this book for your reading enjoyment and enrichment of far away places in history. After reading it, you will always remember the lost queen of Egypt- Ankhsenpaaten.
(Below) This photo of young Ankhesenpaaten is in the book. The other painting is her mother, Neferiti, in the blue hat.
How did King Tut die at the tender age of 18? article that reveals he had Malaria Malaria? Evidently, although the book does have him contract Malaria; it also hints at poisoning from the foreign herb that was administered to him while he had the malaria.
“Song Bird” was Ankhesenpaaten’s nickname when she was young. Reading about the family online will show that King Tut and Song Bird had the same dad, but different mothers which was common back then. Their Dad, Akhenaten, believed in only one God which was radical in Egypt’s history.
Perfume mentioned in the book:
Qemi was some kind of perfumed oil for the hair obtained from the coasts of the Red Sea. Here’s a quote from the book about Pharaoh using it.
The Chief Anointer next appeared, a tall dignified noble who’s duty it was to place upon the head of Pharaoh the ball of qemi, rarest of perfume oils. For hours it had soaked in costly fluid, and now would rest on the head of Akhenaten during the entire feast, that the heavy oil might impart its fragrance to his wig. the members of the royal family and the guests were thus anointed with qemi, a mark of great honor reserved for the privileged few,… (taken from page 43 of the book.)
interesting link about the river boats of that time
interesting link on King Tut and family’s DNA
A good chocolate cake
I made a cake without baking powder. I thought all cakes had to have baking powder in them; not this one. Do you know that it cost about 7.00 to make?
Here is where I got the recipe This blogger made the cake too! It was utterly delicious. Some of it I froze in single portions to give away and to enjoy a piece of cake when I want to pull it out of the freezer. The woman who made this cake says you have to use oil and not butter for the cake for the sake of a moist cake. She convinced me.
Caron’s 3 lavenders
Impact Pour un Homme de Caron Parfum is the best of all three; well kind of. It’s a fresh true lavender with not much else. I simply love it and would like to own it some day. This one is the EDP to caron Pour Homme (the lavender/vanilla one).
The next one below is Pour Un Homme De Caron which has the same bottle as Impact and the same green color to it, yet this one has more than just lavender; it includes musk and vanilla and was created a long time ago by Earnest Daltroff. click here to read about the creator of this great big gem of a perfume
Caron Les Plus Belles Lavandes is the next one (below). It’s a women’s scent compared to the first two as men’s fragrances. I’d like to tell you how I enjoyed the little sample I had, but it’s so light and fleeting that I don’t have much to say on it. It’s awfully light and fleeting!
Back in August (Aug. 10th) I reviewed 4 other lavender scents that were not Caron’s. There’s no comparison to the smell of lavender- it’ll never go out of style.
red carnations
pansey wreath 1995
