THE BLUEST SKIES YOU'VE EVER SEEN

Seattle is known for gray, drizzly weather, but it was once sold in the television show “Here Come the Brides” as a place of blue skies, and the show’s theme song had an earworm of a line that went “The bluest skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle.” That show was based upon real history, in which proper New England young women came to Seattle at the behest of a matchmaker who wanted to pair eligible women with the hard-working men of the frontier. To get them to come, blue skies was a great promise.

Sometimes Seattle really does have blue skies. Summers are the most beautiful summers that this ex-midwesterner has ever seen: sunny but not hot or humid. It is such a lovely time, and summer visitors sometimes decide based upon their beautiful visit to move here, only to experience a dark and dreary seven months per year. When I moved to Seattle, I shopped for some furniture and told the manager we were relatively new to Seattle, and her first words were “Have you been through a winter here yet?” And I thought, “Uh oh.”

LOCATION: Photographed on Elliot Bay from the Seattle to Bremerton Ferry, Washington State, USA

LIMITED EDITION: This photographic print is part of a limited edition produced by photographer Lee Rentz. The edition consists of 250 prints, which includes all sizes and methods of printing. When the edition is completed, no more fine art prints will be created from this photograph, although the image may be used for open edition notecards and other very small prints.