Bear with me while I post photos from my afternoon walk:

(Alki Beach in Seattle)

Pleasantly, this place is a three-minute walk from my aunt's house (where I'm staying this week).

I tracked this boat for about twenty minutes (also please notice the mountains):

Eventually it made it to the sun path:

When I boarded the plane for Seattle, I commented amiably to the middle-aged man in the front seat, "I see you have to sit by the door with all the cold air."

He said, "Your hair is fwrffnyl."

I couldn't hear him.  "My hair is funny?"

"Your hair is WONDERFUL," he repeated loudly.

"Oh!  Thank you."  I scruffled it self-consciously.  "It's a mess.  I haven't done anything to it all day."

"It's wonderful."

I did not feel inclined to disagree so I thanked him and bumbled my way down the aisle with greater self-confidence.