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Cal Anderson Park Capitol Hill Seattle WA - worth a visit!

Well I had a great day yesterday  - a little showing, some paperwork, and then a couple great walks and play time around Seattle neighborhood Capitol Hill.  It was a perfect Seattle summer day!   I wanted to go to Cal Anderson Park (corner of 11th and E Pine) because I had seen the feature on Evening Magazine on it.  After visiting the park, I also read about it in a great article on HA Seattle, because I was seriously confused while my children played in the texture fountain.  I thought it was the wading pool!  I was not alone as there were a ton of kids playing in it and dogs swimming in what must be the "reflection" pool.   I was pretty sure Evening Magazine specifically said a "series of…

What are you doing to live a little greener? 

Seattle neighborhoods have been putting food scraps in the green lawn bin for quite some time and beginning late last year, many Seattle suburbs started offering this great service, too!  Being able to put food scraps in the lawn bin has a huge impact on the environment!  The sheer volume of garbage reduced by this great service is only the beginning, but a giant step in lowering the amount of waste. 

Here is the cool part!

The really great part about the green bin is that besides the lawn waste, other things that can't go in the recycling bins can go here, too.  The shredded paper from the shredding machine can not go in the normal recycling in because the fibers have been cut to short to make it valuable…