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Monkey Puzzles and Muir
The Curious Chilean Trees Dotting Cityscapes
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Seattle's First Map
As maps go, it is not terribly spectacular. No gilt margin, terra incognitum, or fanciful sea monsters. The cartographer has included two ships but they…
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March 2024

Festooning Ferns
A bridge, some plants, and a small world connection
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Monsters of the PNW
We in the PNW do love our monsters, such as Sasquatch, Bezos, and Cadborosaurus. I am guessing that most people are all too familiar with the first two…
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Hope is a Book In Hand
This past weekend, I was fortunate to attend the Tucson Festival of Books. The festival is one of the largest in the country and attracts over 120,000…
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Dungeness Spit
An Account in Five Parts
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February 2024

Words of Place
A Logophile's Take on Seattle
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The Tethers of the Tide
I suspect that all of us have heard, or even said, that time and tide waits for nobody, or as the great Robert Burns phrased it “Nah man can tether time…
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Urban Umwelt in Awe of Animals
For many years, I was part of a small pack consisting of my wife, our dog Taylor, and me. Beautiful, smart, and enchanting, she always was a beloved…
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Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentines Day. This nifty map of Seattle originally appeared in the Seattle Star newspaper on July 5, 1907. The map “will give the reader some…
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A Streetcar Named Seattle
More Clues to the City's Past
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