She lives in Renton, parks at the center and commutes to her teaching job at the Gene Juarez Advanced Training Salon. Inc. Sidewalks are blocked, traffic snarled. Graham lives above the mess. He says his ears ring constantly. Sometimes they start at 4 a.m., although on Sundays they're gracious enough to wait until 7.
Cars are smaller than a baby's finger-nail.
The Columbia Tower is the size of an index finger. People zigzagging down side-walks are specks, obliterated with a pinch. Phil Stoiber stands atop a ladder, dusting the top of a heavy gilt frame with a fine, soft brush. In a Seattle Art Museum room of towering landscapes by Thomas Moran, Stoiber eyeballs the tiniest varnish scratches in paintings that may measure 12 feet wide, making sure the only flaws are ones previously documented. In a grandiose landscape of thundering waterfalls, he can locate a single missing pinpoint of paint or a wispy paintbrush hair left behind by the artist.