They found it in Wedgwood. The Neldams even keep a water bowl out front for the local hounds that lounge outside as their masters linger over coffee, breads, soups and tasty pastries.
Life is a little slower in Wedgwood.
It has more in common with Ballard than it does with Capitol Hill . Once the caffeinated commuters clear out, Wedgwood can seem darn right sleepy, in a pleasant, tree-lined sort of way. There's no jockeying for position in the checkout lines at Matthew's Red Apple Market, where seemingly half the adults in the neighborhood once bagged groceries. Now many of their kids do. Wedgwood's post office and library are other informal greeting spots, where snippets of news about school functions and neighborhood events are exchanged.