Here's the USS Abraham Lincoln , a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that is stationed in Everett. It's around half the tonnage of the ...

This barge is slowly becoming part of the embankment of the Duwamish. It sits next to one of two private bridges Boeing owns across the wat...

In case Pistol Butt was something cooked up by creative bonsai masters, I kept an eye open for it on a hike in the Cascades on the weekend....

Boeing's test registration N5017Q is a Boeing 747-8F , an upgraded freighter that will replace the current 747-400 freighters that domin...

This is a survey marker placed by the National Geodetic Survey, marking a point on the Sand Point Calibration Baseline . It replaces mark A...

Here's a rather moist Rhododendron Obiculare , with foliage quite different from the rhodos that thrive throughout the northwest. This o...

This is the tail fin of a 1960 Chrysler 300F , spotted in Burien. Each year for a decade, Chrysler marketed a new letter in their 300 serie...

This is the first time I've spotted a Nissan Leaf in the wild. It's an all-electric car with a range of around 100 miles. Owners w...

This bonsai was collected from Mt St Helens in 1987. It exhibits Pistol Butt, or a crook in the trunk from downward-sloping snowfall. Moun...

On a wet and not entirely warm Saturday closest to the summer solstice, Freemont holds its annual parade. Naked cyclists have crashed the ...

There is another rail bridge crossing the Snoqualmie River a bit east (upstream) of yesterday's, and also serving the Weyerhaeuser mill ...

This was Northern Pacific's bridge 5.46 , on the Weyerhaeuser Snoqualmie Mill Spur. The steel trusswork was originally installed in Wis...

These are the steps that led up to the schoolhouse of Snoqualmie Falls, a company town founded in 1917 and razed in the 1950s. One can ima...

This is the superheater of the powerplant of our old friend Weyerhaeuser 's Snoqualmie Mill. Its purpose was to heat wet steam into sup...

The National Geodetic Survey is a part of NOAA, chartered with defining and maintaining the coordinate system used by charts and maps in the...