♪♪ -It's time now for NARF. Neighborhood Adventure
Ramble with Friends with your host, Jed Dunkerley.
-Hey, I'm Jed.
Welcome to the tour.
Today we're going to be exploring the cliffs of Madrona.
So let's get going.
All right,
so here we are in a place called the Leschi Natural Area.
It's above the Leschi neighborhood, which is aligned with the cliffs of Madrona.
And Art Zone viewers, we wanted to talk about some art today,
so I think a great place to start is with
these giant boulders that have been polished on the top into slabs
that you can just sit on. So it's very useful art.
It's beautiful.
It reflects the sky.
But the real art, let's be honest, is right there.
This is the kind of place that makes me love Seattle.
Hidden in a in a neighborhood, a million-dollar view, which for most Americans,
they would feel like
they had to go on a weeklong vacation to get this moment right here. ♪♪
And just remember, every step down
is a step back up that you have to take later.
That is one of the features here
in the cliffs of Madrona. It reminds you that the tour is not just about
seeing things, it's about getting exercise. (breathes out loudly)
Here we are down at Viretta Park, which is the home of the Kurt Cobain
Memorial Bench, one of the best and widest known
outsider art installations in the cliffs of Madrona.
And this being so close to Halloween, we actually have a delightful
pumpkin tribute, which I really like.
Look at that.
That's some Exacto bliss right there.
Lyrics abound. You can take your pick.
And one of the reasons this is here, of course, is because Kurt lived
right over there and passed away right over there.
♪♪ Here we are at the enchanted ramp.
And the enchanted ramp is in a category of art
that I like to call outsider art in installation.
And things start like this,
and then somebody sees it and they just start growing.
And I-we don't know if it's all the work of one artist
or if somebody saw a good idea and said, You know, I can do something like that.
There's all sorts of fun little things to see if you just sort of peek.
And let's see what we've got today.
Gnome Village Home.
So back there, there's a little guy that lives in the tree.
This is fun.
Haven’t seen that before. ♪♪
Another fun cultural foray when you're on tour
is the little free libraries that are prolific around Seattle.
Let's see if we can find something in here that we like.
Oh wow. Haven't read this in a while.
And then this is one of my favorites.
I do this all the time with my hands.
(breathing hard) There's my stairs
back up for you. (breathes out loudly)
Feel the burn. ♪♪
And it's also important when you're taking a tour to take breaks,
take advantage of public benches, especially ones
with stumps around them. (sighs)
Here we are on the Pine
Street trestle, which most people don't even know exists.
And quite frankly, why would it?
It's a massive structure.
And if you can catch this woodwork down here, I'm easily 40 feet off the ground
on a T-shaped trestle that just adjoins a street with another street.
And while you're dazzled by the architecture and the sheer
wonder of this even being here, you might catch a glimpse of a gnome.
Then you see another gnome
and you start realizing, Wait, there's a bunch of gnomes down there.
Somebody did that.
And that's the Pine Street trestle gnome garden.
Hey, that's it.
Thanks for coming on tour with us. Hope you had fun.
Just a quick reminder that every neighborhood in Seattle has
this kind of stuff.
It's your job to go out and find them so happy NARFing.
Have fun. We'll see you next time. ♪♪