Caught Off Guard – Weekly Top Shot #99
Caught Off Guard – Weekly Top Shot #99

Caught Off Guard – Weekly Top Shot #99

Chan Restaurant at Inn at the Market - Seattle WA - Pike Place Market

Caught off guard, spontaneous, surprised, unrehearsed.

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Here,

at Cha:n restaurant very early one morning,

while I was walking around the Pike Place Market district,

I strolled through the courtyard of the Inn at the Market,

a ritzy four star hotel.

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Looking in the window at 07:31,

I was caught visually by the repetitive lights hanging over the counter seating

and the red napkins placed precisely at each seat.

I fired off a couple shots and then when I shot this one,

the chef appeared in the kitchen doorway and voila,

magic happened.

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Without the chef,

this would still have been an interesting image,

but his presence added the human element needed to make it better.

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Sorry WTS is up a bit late this morning.

Work started Wednesday and the first week to week and a half of school

is so hectic and frenzied

that I am drained mentally and physically for days.

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And I have had a headache in the top of my head for four days.

I think it is dehydration.

I drank a lot of water daily while I was off work.

But at work,

if I drank that much, I’d be in trouble.

We are a bit captive

(if you get my drift) in the bus

and restrooms and time to find one are not readily available on my route.

I drank a lot of water when I got up this morning

and my headache seems to be letting up.

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If you have school children,

how did their

first days go?

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‘WEEKLY TOP SHOT’ #99

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23 Comments

  1. Great shot – love the light configuration. Drink drink drink water – what a problem to need to drink and need to find a facility.

    Our middle grandson had his first day with a male teacher (3rd grade) he reported that it was two thumbs up and looked like a good year!!!

    1. That is good news, it is easier for kids to be successful if they like their teachers… I’ll have to try to figure a way to get more water in on work days. I used to kid my boss that one of the requirements to be a school bus driver was the ability to live in a state of dehydration…

  2. Imagine you will be back in the “swing of things” before long, Madge! Love this image…would really like to be in the situation to capture it. When I saw it, I was struck by the familiarity of the situation—our oldest son, who has lived in New York for 8 years and has been a chef at a particular restaurant in Brooklyn for 4 of those years, just ended his work there to take a “sabbatical” of sorts, leading up to an extended trip to Spain next year. Right now, he’s feeling a little misplaced, as you can imagine.

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