Pet Dish
It's rubber-boot, black-tennis-balls, hog-fuel season at the dog park.
Heavy rains have created slime fields and muddy walkways only a dog
could love. Some stewards are getting proactive by spreading wood chips
to make the shoe-sucking sludge a little more navigable. (If you're
curious, I was, wood chips are called hog fuel after the wood grinding
machines known as "hogs.")
By Lisa Wogan | January 21, 2008
Take a Walk
Meet your local park when it was only a dream on a designer's page: Take a look in the historical archives of Seattle parks, a treasure trove for history buffs that is now available online.
By Madeline McKenzie | January 26, 2006
To many, Lake Washington is just a large body of water to drive around or across as we hurry to and fro in our busy lives.
On clear winter days, perhaps we take a glance at the stunning view of snow-covered Mount Rainier, some 50 miles distant but at times seemingly at its southern shore.
By Greg Johnston | February 10, 2005
To check the weather:
See the Web site www.nwsource.com/, and click on "weather," or the National Weather Service at www.wrh.noaa.gov/seattle/.
To plan a drive:
Call 206-DOT-HIWY for recorded traffic reports and highway conditions. Outside Seattle: 800-695-ROAD. On the Web: traffic.wsdot.wa.gov.
To ride a ferry:
August 29, 2002
To check the weather:
See the Web site www.nwsource.com/, and click on "weather," or the National Weather Service at www.wrh.noaa.gov/seattle/.
To plan a drive:
Call 206-DOT-HIWY for recorded traffic reports and highway conditions. Outside Seattle: 800-695-ROAD. On the Web: traffic.wsdot.wa.gov.
To ride a ferry:
August 29, 2002
After all these years driving across the Canadian border at Blaine, I finally decided to visit Peace Arch State Park from some place other than inside my car.
It might seem childish, but I've always wanted to stand under the gleaming white arch and straddle the border, one foot in America and the other in Canada, just to say I did it ... maybe even jump back and forth a couple of times.
By Jeff Larsen | May 23, 2002
