For the Fourth of July, I went to the Downtown Park in
Bellevue (Bellevue is a suburb of Seattle). They have a large, artificial waterfall
that is keenly engineered. A fairly new cement walkway allowed this point of
view, which I’ve never had before.
The Bellevue Square mall is on the north side of the park.
As I’ve noted before, the Microsoft store inside is so confident of their
brand, they don’t even put their name on the front of the store.
Their open-air design has the work hard, play hard kind of
feel.
Not far away is their sworn enemy, the Apple store. And they
don’t have their name on the front of the store, either.
Same design. But they have achieved a slacker cool kind of
vibe.
So back outside. It’s hard to convey the crowd size with one
picture.
A real treat was a performance by the Bellevue Youth
Symphony Orchestra.
Below is from the reverse angle.
They started with a medley from the recent Star Trek movies. In a word,
fascinating. They quickly went on to a medley of Leonard Bernstein’s works.
This must have been quite challenging for the conductor (who is facing us in the above picture), because of the variety
of Bernstein’s styles.
Since I had to go to work the next day, I left before the
fireworks show. But I could hear their booming explosions as I drove off.
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