photo by brian dewey [flickr] via our group pool [#]

• Seattle is burning. On a cake. Who can say why. Obvs. the commenters, but who has the time? [seattle.lj]
• Skillet’s wandering days are over. (sort of &/or making the 12th ave microhood even better!) [voracious]
• Three ways to spend six dollars eating on Broadway, none of them Dick’s. [chtriangle]
• In addition to opening to the public, McLeod Residence will now host quiet music on the first Wednesday of the month. [threeimaginarygirls]
• Does this make you feel even slightly better about Vivace and Piroshky being torn down for light rail? The station will be decorated by Ellen Forney. [citizenrain]
• Starbucks gobbles up Clover. [myballard (btw, let's just go ahead and call this one the prohibitive favorite for 2009 tournament of blogs top seed)]

Note: Thank you for your patience during the 3 week break in this series. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

The sun is shining, it’s time to switch from hot to iced coffee drinks, and the University District Farmer’s Market was hopping this morning at 9 am. The line for Skagit River Ranch’s eggs was 6 people deep, but Woodring Orchards was still relatively quiet. When I asked Dale Nelson of Woodring about this, he revealed that it’s always slow for the first half an hour or so. People tend to grab their meat and veggies and then wander over to check out his wares.

Luckily for me, the brief lull in customers gave me a wonderful opportunity to interview Dale and find out a little about Woodring Orchards.
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Although I complained about it last night, the highlights reel episode of Grey’s Anatomy reminded me that some of you might be new to Seattle or new readers of this site. In the spirit of getting everyone caught up and reminiscing about the year that was, you’ll find a month-by-month rundown of 2005 after the jump. It’s a mix of a Seattle timeline and a few posts that might even make your 2006 a little better.

I think this officially concludes the site’s “looking back” portion of the program (even we have a limit to the amount of history we want to learn in order not to repeat it).

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Starbucks has been mentioned a few times on the Seatlte Metblog. Who are we kidding, Josh is obviously obsessed. But then again, this is Seattle.

Over the years, I’ve actually grown to accept and even welcome the presence of Starbucks in our fair city. Here are a few reasons why:
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Dilettante Chocolates is a well-known Capitol Hill fixture, having first opened on Broadway in 1977. Most people think of Dilettante