It was a wrong turn on a country road that led us to the sleepy little produce stand in Skagit County where a little bit of faith in humanity is on display with fresh apples and potatoes. The Pleasant Ridge Farm produce stand is about …
Author: Greg Lamm
Amid dramatic progress driven by Amazon, a row of once-grand houses falls in Seattle’s South Lake Union
I stood next to a construction worker on a recent rainy October day watching the bucket of an excavator chew apart an old, three-story house on Fairview Avenue in Seattle. The old home had become expendable to make room for a new office building near …
A Boeing psychologist spent years trying to evoke the magic of flying for jaded, travel-weary jet passengers
The fact that Boeing’s 787 was named the Dreamliner was really an admission that flying on a commercial airliner had devolved into a horrible experience for many travelers. Just ask Blake Emery, a long-time Boeing psychologist who helps Boeing build planes that made people feel …
Brewer, baker, woodturner, treasure maker: All in a day’s work for Bluegrass State forester Scott Shouse
To me it was just an overgrown limb destined for the woodpile. But Scott Shouse, the forester extraordinaire, looked at the thigh-thick lilac branch we had just cut down and saw the makings of a rustic wooden treasure box.
Railroad Grade Trail in September
From the edge of the moraine, the Railroad Grade Trail becomes an exhilarating high-wire hike as you make a steady ascent on the approach to the mighty Easton Glacier.
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