Michael Grass

@mgrass.bsky.social

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WA via DC, NYC and MI | Assistant director for communications at @cip.uw.edu | Former journalist | Car-free living | 🚎 🚇 🏊‍♂️ ✍️ 🌲🗺

A mostly empty pub with soccer scarves hanging from the rafters.
A group of people, including two on bicycles, gather in front of a Craftsman-style house where a three-piece band is assembled.
Julie Wise and Kate Starbird for a conversation with a camera in the foreground at right and a slide reading "Elections Explained: Rumors and Reality."!
An Google AI Overview claiming that Matt Yglesias is "noted for popularizing a specific, simple, a crowd-pleasing tomato-basil bruschetta."
A Sounder commuter train at the Tacoma Dome Station platform with a canopy shading half of the platform looking toward the sun.
Bald guy in a grey T-shirt with a bear-octopus creature.
A RapidRide G bus pulls up to a station in Downtown Seattle.
A cookie with a marshmallow fluf swirl on a plate.
A view of a snow-capped Tahoma (Mount Rainier) in the distance looking down on a city with a hilltop, low-rise apartment buildings and an evergreen tree in the foreground.
Bald dude in a purple shirt.
A tabby cat rolled up into a ball.
A bald dude in a lapswim lane in a Mediterranean-Art Deco swimming pool.
Looking up from street level at the south face of the John Hancock Building, with its distinctive X-shaped exterior steel beams.
A rainbow colored version of the City of Bellingham's municipal flag hanging next to a storefront.
Neoclassical ornamentation in the Great Hall of Chicago Union Station ...
A bald dude in a vintage Honolulu bus operator shirt ...
A light rail train in the background in front of a garage entrance with sign saying "Caution Vehicle Exiting"
Crossing the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge on a bus.
A blue Prius with a decal reading "Hellkitty"
A bald guy wearing sunglasses and a Sound Transit Crosslake Connection soccer jersey.
An orange tabby cat lies in repose looking out a window.
Bald dude wearing sunglasses and riding a streetcar.
A T Line streetcar in front of the orange-brick Renaissance Revival style Old City Hall (and clocktower) along a snowy street in Tacoma.
Snowfall on the ground with a metal fence and hedge in the foreground.
Snowy rooftops before sunrise.
A Sound Transit Link train interior.
An orange tabby cat sitting on a human's legs.
A glass sculpture of the Downtown Seattle cityscape.
Looking down on a snow-capped Mt Hood from an airplane.
A super wide residential street with palm trees.
An insanely wide residential street with dead palm fronds used as a lane divider.
A person waits for a bus at a stop with trash cans blocking the curb.
A cat looks up as their human holds a newly delivered print editions of The Onion.
An orange tabby cat lying across a human's leg.
A orange tabby cat on a white blanket.
A slice of delicious Basque cheesecake on a patterned plate.
A Sound Transit Link T Line train pulls into a station in front of an orange-brick Renaissance Revival style historic building with a clock tower.
A King County Metro RapidRide bus heads through a tunnel of overhead light strings over the street.
The cutest cat in the world peers out from a box.
A slice of a Moroccan-inspired Thanksgiving bastilla made with turkey on a blue-patterned plate.
A cloud bank obscures the view of Mount Rainier's summit with its flanks covered it snow below.
A night-time view of the Seattle downtown skyline with King Street Station, its clocktower and train platforms illuminated.
Two owls, sitting on a tree branch over a creek.
Two owls perched on branches.
A white canvas canopy stretches out over a mostly empty transit center next to an expressway viaduct.
A bus rapid transit stop in a downtown area with a yellow textured strip along the stop edge adjacent to the street curb. A convention center is across the street at right.
An abstract metal sculpture of a person on a pedestal looking toward a historic 10-story red brick hotel building .
A hand-drawn map of transit options for reaching the Ski to Sea finish line in Fairhaven, Bellingham.
A NYTimes.com article about the end of the New Jersey Transit strike with a photo showing PATH's Hoboken Station, which is not part of NJ Transit.
The Chicago River skyline with the Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower.
A tabby cat sits attentively in an open box on a sunny day.
A tabby cat sits on a rust-colored couch looking out a window with an antique 1950s radio in the background.
City lights twinkle in Downtown Tacoma with Mount Rainier in the distance with some morning alpenglow.
Looking down on part of Downtown Tacoma, with the Tacoma Dome and Tahoma (Mount Rainier in clear view).
An interior of a bus packed with senior citizens.
An escaped chicken on a sidewalk walking toward the camera.
Throngs of cherry blossoms tourists frolicking about on the UW Quad
A nesting hummingbird among evergreens.