Dickgirl Van Dyke
@trashwytch
afab | 30 or 40 years old can potentially be found in any part of seattle on any given evening. could be outside your window right now. currently reading all my dad's books and blogging about them at
Also a great picnic park - get a burger from Dick's and walk it up here. Pro tip: the P-patch has a really great table in it. 8/10 RESTROOMS/TABLES: Yes
MERIDIAN PLAYGROUND (Wallingford) I used to have this vivid sense-memory of going to a summer camp in an old school somewhere with a stone arch, but I never knew where it was until I first started wandering around the city in college, smelled the bushes, and was immediately transported back.
COLUMBIA SCHOOL PLAZA (Columbia City) Part of the school and not a city park, but it's open to the public when not in use, if you wanna hang out in a weirdly industrial-art plaza. 6/10 RESTROOMS: No TABLES: Yes
COLUMBIA PARK (Columbia City) Now THIS is a neighborhood park. Home to the farmer's market Thursdays in-season, and there's no finer time than grabbing some produce or hitting up a food truck and chilling on the lawn. Also abuts the neighborhood library! 7/10 RESTROOMS/TABLES: No
Kind of sucks to actually walk through though, feels like a lot of unutilized open space with very little shade or shelter. A big opportunity for improvement. The south end needs more shady spaces!!!
RAINIER PLAYFIELD/COMMUNITY CENTER, GENESSESE PARK, STAN SAYRES MEMORIAL PARK (Columbia City/Seward Park) This is basically one big superpark separated by a couple streets, running from Rainier down to the lake. Includes ballfields, meadow space, boat launch & rowing/sailing center, dog park...
Free wet bread at the fishing pier if anyone wants. Hurry up, it's gonna go fast
When I came out on the job she saw me wearing a bunch of pride pins and was said "you know, I think I have a bunch of old ones at home I could give you" and gave me a boxful of cool stuff. I'm pretty sure the Stonewall Contingent pin is from the first Seattle pride march but don't quote me on that
SOLSTICE PARK (Fauntleroy) On the hill above Lincoln Park, featuring a hilltop sundial with notches that align with the sun on the solstices and equinoxes. I've never been hear then but I hear it gets busy. 8/10 RESTROOMS/TABLES: Yes
KILBOURNE PARK (Fauntleroy) Was donated in 1951 with the intention of becoming an auditorium, but that never happened, so it's just an extremely small patch of steep ravine with a creek running through it and no trails whatsoever. 3/10 RESTROOMS/TABLES: No
BARTON STREET P-PATCH (Roxhill) Cute sculptures and a big tree with benches, also an outdoor oven. 6/10 R/T: No
SEOLA GREENBELT (Arbor Heights/Seola Beach) The southwesternmost park in Seattle. The upper area has a very pleasant tree and a little trail that leads to a water overlook, a (probably unofficial) trail leads further down the greenbelt to the street that passes through it. 6/10 R/T No
ALKI PLAYGROUND Pretty much just playfield, playground has those cool whale tails and boat. Not far from the beach but you can't really see it. 5/10 RESTROOMS: Yes TABLES: No
I thought there would be more queers at Volunteer Park but there's nobody here
at some point you say to yourself, "oh, that simply is too many cars." but then there are more cars
It's okay, thugs, I would react the same way if I thought I saw Power Pack
people, birds, bags, and, your friend and mine, the Pizza Crows (they will return)