Seattle Style File
Each year I pull out my cheesy French maid costume and wadded up fishnets from a sad little tattered plastic bag and I wonder: 1) Should I get a new costume? and 2) Am I too old for this one? We will address the former question and ignore the latter. In my hunt for the spirit of Halloween and an original costume this week, I found so many it will be difficult to choose.
By Kathy Schultz | October 7, 2004
Seattle Style File
Each year I pull out my cheesy French maid costume and wadded up fishnets from a sad little tattered plastic bag and I wonder: 1) Should I get a new costume? and 2) Am I too old for this one? We will address the former question and ignore the latter. In my hunt for the spirit of Halloween and an original costume this week, I found so many it will be difficult tochoose.
By Kathy Schultz | October 7, 2004
Birders' Top Spots
Location: Near Moses Lake, in Eastern Washington.
Habitat: About 3,100 acres of the Bureau of Reclamation/Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife North Potholes Reserve with open-water wetlands, mature willow trees and seasonal mud flats. Listed as an Important Bird Area by Audubon Society.
Seasons for birding: Year-round; now is good time to observe migrations of passerines and shorebirds.
October 7, 2004
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK Balancing a 4-gallon water jug on my knee while trying to make peace with a 50-pound backpack, I was filling out the Park Service backcountry-use permit at the trailhead with a government-issue eraserless pencil stub. My 5-year-old daughter and her friend were scampering around my feet searching for smooth, round rocks, "to ward off wood nymphs." We were about to embark on a hike short in steps and long in natural brilliance, a beach trek that has become an annual family tradition.
By Kathryn True | October 7, 2004
Short Trips
KELOWNA, B.C. -- As some friends and I drove our carts to the first tee at The Bear, one of two spectacular 18-hole golf courses carved out of a hillside at the Okanagan Golf Club, I overheard the large group of golfers behind us say they were from Sequim. Apparently they had flown to Kelowna the day before to enjoy a few days of golf, wine and Cariboo Country hospitality.
By Jeff Larsen | October 7, 2004
It's rained much of the weekend, and as we barrel down a wooded tube of muck in Capitol State Forest, splashing through puddles and mud holes 30 feet long, I, oddly enough, find myself contemplating a bisque. A lovely seafood bisque. Perhaps with some basil, garlic, shredded crabmeat and those little shrimp. Yum.
By Mike McQuaide | October 7, 2004
MONTE CRISTO -- Into a chaos of glacier-carved stone we climbed, along a trail of roots, rocks and mud that could barely be called one, on a birding trip that at times seemed more a wild goose chase.
That's not to say it wasn't pure backcountry bliss.
Gothic Basin, high above the historic abandoned mining town of Monte Cristo in eastern Snohomish County, is an intriguingly stark crown of rock buttresses and ridges cradling crystal tarns and a lake, accented by patches of heather and huckleberry, the latter now burnished scarlet by the days of fall.
By Greg Johnston | October 7, 2004
Spray Park is just one pretty trinket in Mount Rainier National Park's jewel box. Get an early start, because the scenery is too splendid to hurry through.
By Karen Sykes | October 7, 2004
