This is the eighth park in my Lake Washington parks series. For full info and a list of all the parks see the introduction here.
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Free Admission to the Volunteer Park Conservatory
The admission fee for the Volunteer Park Conservatory is small ($4 for adults, $2 for youth, under 12 free), but it’s enough to push the Conservatory down on the things-to-do list for a lot of people. Now’s your chance to visit without having to pay. Admission is free until February 28th.
The free admission comes courtesy of the Bennet-Shear family. The children made a generous donation to celebrate their parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. The children grew up nearby and often walked to the park and toured through the conservatory, which was free to enter until 2013. What a neat way to honor their parents and benefit the community!
The Conservatory is open 10 am to 4 pm every day except Mondays.
To see my post about the Conservatory click here.
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Total Lunar Eclipse 2019
Readers who have been with me since 2015 may remember I had a less than successful outing photographing the lunar eclipse in September that year. All of my pretty bloodmoons were blurry and I was sooo disappointed. You can see my post about that experience here.
I had to wait until 2018 to try again. But alas, clouds. No eclipse viewing for Seattle that time.
The next total lunar eclipse was this last Sunday, January 20th. Not a good time of year for clear skies in Western Washington, and the cloud cover forecasts in the days leading up to the event were offering little hope.
But wonder of wonders, there was some clearing. It ended up depending on where you were as to whether it was completely cloudy, partly cloudy, or mostly clear. I totally lucked out in north Seattle where it was mostly clear.
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