American Airlines employees based in Seattle built a cardboard facade of a castle in 2008, and they've been  deploying it at gate A9 ...

Winter ice skating, outdoors, really helps set the mood for Christmas.  This is the rink in Bellevue Downtown Park. Last year at this t...

The business association for downtown Seattle organized to have a carousel placed in Westlake Park for the holidays.  Income from it is ...

The Bellevue Botanical Garden has an annual Christmas light display, and this year's featured a dragon (with steaming nostrils!) in t...

The beautiful texture of the wood of this 50 year cherry tree became visible as we felled it. The straight boughs will be useful for st...

It looks like this truck's brakes are on fire, or at least dangerously hot.  But no, its wheels have just been cleaned by warm water ...

Seattle's downtown, viewed from the 50-year-old Space Needle . The Seattle Center Monorail tracks show up well against the streetli...

Harborview is the urban hospital in Seattle where the most serious regional cases are sent.  Here is their impressive collection of back...

Macy's has an annual "holiday window display," and this year in Seattle it's a pretty good toy train set.  Obligatory c...

For some reason, it costs $23,500 to fully outfit a public square with tree sweaters.  Suzanne Tidwell makes one sort of art: stripey stock...

Sunrise greets Mount Rainier (14,411ft) from Mount Si (4167ft). Little Tahoma Peak is visible to the left, and Curtis Ridge and Liberty Rid...

Just prior to morning twilight, a total lunar eclipse was visible in the Pacific Northwest. Morning fog crept over much of Seattle, obscur...

This is a 1970s era VW Type I Super Beetle, probably with the 1.5L 54hp flat four cylinder engine, and a 4-speed transmission. It looks fa...

At 37th Ave NE and NE 62nd St lies Utopian Heights, a venture by Seattle artists Dennis Evans and Nancy Mee . There's a shrine off the...

This is Forestry Road 2219 , a road we thought would be plowed this winter. As it wasn't, we parked a mile away from where we were plan...