- “The Potholes” is the local name for a waterfall on Lacamas Creek. The soft rock here has been eroded into rolling curves punctuated by deeper “potholes”. The potholes are created when harder stones become trapped in a depression in the softer rock. Winter currents swirl the rock around and around grinding away at the softer stone. Lacamas Creek has dramatically lower water levels In the summer, when this area looks like an ornamental waterfall in someone’s garden, admittedly someone with a big budget. It’s easy to hop around and investigate dozens of small drops, potholes, and pools separated by channels sometimes less than a foot wide.
- 1201 Third Avenue (Wikipedia)
1201 Third Avenue (formerly Washington Mutual Tower) is a 235.31-meter (772.0 ft), 55-story skyscraper in Downtown Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the third-tallest building in the city, the eighth-tallest on the West Coast of the United States, and the 97th-tallest in the United States. Developed by Wright Runstad & Company, construction began in 1986 and finished in 1988. 1201 Third Avenue was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and The McKinley Architects. The building was the world headquarters of the financial company Washington Mutual from the building’s opening until 2006, when the company moved across the street to the WaMu Center (renamed the Russell Investments Center after the bank collapsed in 2008).