This magnolia is at the peak of showing its outrageously pink blooms, on a walk in Queen Anne. Spring has come early this year to Seattle, a...

My tour of public art in airports continues at Omaha's Eppley Airfield (OMA). There's some unpleasant metalwork called "Danc...

Our household just gained another vehicle. This 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited is a lumbering beast. It produces 220hp from a 5.2L Magnum...

The Cathedral of Saint Paul occupies a much more prominent hilltop location than the nearby State Capitol, and it overlooks much of downtow...

This panoramic mosaic sits at the western side of the passenger terminal building at the Colorado Springs airport ( COS ). It's sufficie...

East of Ellensburg WA , a tresle of the Milwaukee Road crosses the I90 as a tractor-trailer heads east. Although the rail bridge predates th...

The Link Light Rail running between Seattle's downtown and the airport sports a fair bit of public art. Here at the Tukwila Internation...

94 Stewart is a fancy restaurant in Seattle with decent reviews . It's on the steep bit of Stewart, the part just barely clinging on to...

Last night, I prepared a dinner of individual nibbles, instead of having a single big dish. It was delicious, and allowed a slow pace for c...

This wee creature is the endangered Banff Springs Snail . It's luxuriating in the spring water at the Cave and Basin springs, which is r...

No, this is not a plug-in hybrid . This is the plug for a block heater on this weekend's rental car. Fortunately, it was not nearly col...

The Townley Dairy in Oklahoma City has been abandoned since 1998. It has suffered a couple of arson-set fires, but there is still plenty t...

Bellevue Airfield was a fully functional airport in Bellevue WA, operating from 1948 to 1983. It had a single runway (2/20), and was less ...

I rambled about Granite Mountain this weekend. It was the first bit of serious terrain on my new snowshoes, and I learned quite a bit about...

The Tim Tam (from Australia) is Arnott's Biscuits' contribution to culinary excellence. It provides a fine balance between crispnes...