U District Doorway

[holyoutlaw]

University District, Seattle
Taken: 6 December 2006
Processed: 5 January 2007

I wait by this doorway twice a day, it's at the transfer point of my bus rides to and from work.

Comments

[fringefaan.livejournal.com]

Hm. I can't place it. Looks like a punk hobbit hole in the side of a hill! Does the graffitti say Frodo Lives?

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Hah! No, I don't know what the graffiti says.

It's near the big bus stop on the north side of Campus Parkway, for buses heading out of the U District.

I like the idea of it being a punk hobbit hole.

[(Anonymous)]

I still really can't picture where this is! It's bugging me.

[fringefaan.livejournal.com]

Which was me, of course.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I'll show it to you sometime. It's heavily obscured by the stuff growing around it. The Snappleb bottle is gone, but the bed frame part is still there.

[fringefaan.livejournal.com]

Well, I made a point of checking it out on my morning break today. I've walked by that door a zillion or so times without ever noticing it. Good job picking out a fascinating detail from the urban collage. It's like a secret world in there.

Funny thing is, that house turns out to hold the offices of the UW Combined Fund Drive, which raises funds for United Way. I had no idea -- and am kind of surprised -- that the UW had set aside an office for this effort. So that's another secret world revealed!

[dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com]

Nice. I really like the colors.

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

I find it a very moving and spiritual picture: the promised refuge of the door that is abandoned, defaced, and blocked by garbage.