One of my favorite activities is making full use of an airport stopover when on a through-fare. You might think that would limit me to hubs...

Shannon is a town of 900 or so in the northwestern corner of Illinois. My north-oriented view is very similar to Google's, and you can ...

The Alaskan Way Viaduct is a rickety structure that runs most of the length of the Seattle waterfront. It's quite vulnerable to earthq...

This is a oxygen-propane torch hard at work heating a crucible. The billet of a gold alloy was then added and melted. Once everything was ...

Here is the very visible edge of the marine cloud layer, leaking over the highest peaks of the Cascades. The clouds cover everything to per...

We caught this osprey cruising up and down the Yakima Canyon , tracking fish in the river. This was at the footbridge across to Umtanum Cr...

I promise this will be the last post about the Smith Tower . Here, its beautiful white terra cotta facade rises up from Second Avenue. It ...

The Smith Tower is a glorious 1914 skyscraper, the tallest outside New York City at the time. It has an excellent observation deck, allowi...

I'm gaining proficiency with the zoom lens. This fellow has walked 27min (1.4mi) from the Safeway where he got those groceries. One st...

It was a terrible growing year for tomatoes, but our carrots turned out wonderfully. Unlike picking beans, or cucumbers, or even strawberri...

Here is the 7:05pm M/V Kitsap , leaving Seattle for Bremerton. Like the Kittitas , it is an Issaquah-class ferry commissioned for the WSF,...

The Washington State Department of Transport operates Washington State Ferries , which runs this vehicle ferry terminal in downtown Seattle....

I didn't expect to be able to post a picture showing the curviness of the SR520 bridge. Seen from another angle , there's barely a ...

People seem to care about football here. These are the north stands of the University of Washington's Husky Stadium. The UW Huskies (pu...

The BMW G450X motorcycle is in the "sport enduro" class, but you'd likely call it a dirt bike. Here, it has just arrived up ...