This time last year, Seattle was wrapping up an amazing autumn. It hardly rained. It was almost never cloudy. Autumn 2008 has been pretty crappy, which is why I haven't been posting as much. The weather has been so uninspiring, it has become a challenge to get fired up to do much of anything - even on the weekends. To show you what I mean by "uninspiring," here is the view from my apartment this morning looking up the hill:



And here is the "view" down the hill towards the Sound:




So when the sun comes out, even for a couple of hours, you race outside to check to see that the mountains are still there: