The bluest skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle…
The upside for working late today is the traffic is light and I make record time getting home… Heading south on Interstate 5 around 7:00 PM the sky is a wonderful shade of blue and there’s ol’ Miss, her Majesty, Mt Rainier in the background. I’m at the northern end of Boeing Field.
I’m cracking myself up remembering as a kid watching ”Here Come the Brides” (1968 - 1970). As corny as it was, we thought it was so cool that there was actually a national TV show that was about Seattle, we hardly missed an episode.
The show was actually based (very loosely) on a true story. Asa Mercer (Mercer Island, Mercer Street etc.) brought young women from New England to Seattle in 1864 to be teachers and hopefully brides for the mostly male early settlers. They were known as the “Mercer Girls” …
Perry Como had a big hit on the theme song in 1969.
The bluest skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle.
Funny today as I’m driving down the freeway the lyric rings (in a kinda wacky funny way) true…
Full of hopes and full of fears
Full of laughter full of tears
Full of dreams to last a year… in Seattle…
Maybe we think they’re so blue because most of the time they’re grey… Yet, a beautiful day is a beautiful day… enjoy. I better clean my windshield. July 15, 2010
The Blackberry Chronicles
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