Cupcake Royale produces delightful premium cupcakes, including the Royale With Cheese, pictured at left. They're quite expensive, but v...

I was supposed to get a tour of the Hanford B Reactor this past weekend, but wildfires had closed the area and the tour was rescheduled for...

Off in Ballard, we had a slice of pizza at Snoose Junction . Also on offer were snow cones. "Would you like a shot with that?" I...

The Beverly Railroad Bridge , built in 1915, spans the Columbia in eastern Washington. It carried the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Paci...

Although a troublesome weed to many backyards, blackberries are best appreciated when planted on someone else's property. The berry sea...

I90 at sunrise, at Elk Heights Road in Cle Elum, Washington. Some unavoidable camera shake is visible towards the end of the exposure, caus...

Oh wait - no it isn't. There are endless bumper stickers, T-shirts , and websites promoting the idea that "concrete is forever...

The 2009 apple season is on! The orchards of Grant County are alive with immigrant workers, filling crates with delicious apples. Here, a ...

It's late, but the lighting is beautiful. Parking is easy to find. No fish are being thrown, and there are few tourists about. The doo...

Chinook salmon are starting to come up the Chittenden Locks fish ladder. The locks are the boundary between salt and freshwater, and the ...

I'm able to get ridiculously narrow depth of field with the new lens . This is at f/1.8, and there's only a pencil-wide strip of th...

Chilly Hilly is an annual ride around Bainbridge Island in February, intended to kick off the new cycling season. I rode it today, and alth...

These beautiful and delicious peaches were collected from a friend's backyard, here in Seattle. The poor tree was groaning under the we...

Today I explored an abandoned rail tunnel under Stevens Pass . The Old Cascade Tunnel was completed in 1900 to replace switchbacks that ori...

There are several art installations along the Interurban Trail that runs parallel to the seedy part of Aurora Avenue, in the upper reaches o...