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Happy new year :-)

Best wishes for 2011.

After the jump, photos from my balcony half a mile away from the Space Needle’s New Year fireworks show. Excellent weather this year, clear and cold with practically no wind—and the smoke from the fireworks moved west of the Needle so we had an unobstructed view of the whole show.

Marine flow

The Space Needle obscured by the morning fog that’s been part of our daily routine over the last week or more.

Not quite the view we’ll have, but close

Friends and family joining me shortly for dinner and hanging out. At midnight we’ll crowd out onto my balcony to toast the new year and watch the Space Needle fireworks display from 6 blocks away.

It’s like living a postcard each year. :-)

Happy new year!

Photo by Jim Bates / Seattle Times, via article Space Needle’s fireworks to welcome new year

Space Tree

Space Tree
Flickr: Don NunnThe Space Needle's holiday tradition is back!

Ominous cloudbank

Ominous cloudbank
Flickr: Don NunnEvile dark mass rearing over Queen Anne. We’d better bust our asses to get home quickly, yikes!

In the shadow of the Space Needle

In the shadow of the Space Needle
Flickr: Don NunnPretty iconic polling place, eh wot?