I live in Seattle, and am a Photographer... Thank you for such kind words about our lovely city, Thank you for coming to check out our part of the world friends, Lovely photographs...I can tell from the soul of your words your are genuinely positive individual... because it is so wet, moist and oceanic and watery here, Seattle always has a way of reflecting everything in our emotions directly into our actions and environment... I greatly enjoyed reading your post, and even though I do live here, even reading this Iv become a little bit more inspired to get out around town more and photograph some of the places, that Ive never shoot at before, get a different angle of the city, thats yet to be seen... many of us here are very under talkative as Im sure you notice... but the rest of us are just as over talkative as every where else on the West Coast and I find the people to be much more down to Earth and friendly here, you just have to give people a chance to "feel" things out and get a sense of who you are first... like you said, it tends to rain here a lot... but ironically it hasn't rained in like 9 days. lol... Glad you enjoyed your adventure in Seattle, Take care. (ps- best months for no rain- or heat is to visit during May-June) :)