Posted June 1: updated June 9, 2011 [caption id="attachment_854" align="alignleft" width="400"] Western Tanager, photo by Ed Newbold. Western Tanager is one of many North American birds that are to some degree dependent on shade coffee plantations.[/caption] Saving Birds like this has now become almost as easy as shooting...
May 7, 2011 In a story covering the release of a study linking higher food prices with global climate change, NPR failed to add any reference to that other huge vector force driving food prices up: biofuel mandates in the US and Europe. A list of...
posted April 28, 2011 Updated May 11, 2011 [caption id="attachment_760" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Photo from Leavenworth area by Janet Millard"][/caption] Here's an idea: Visit beautiful Leavenworth, Washington for the Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday May 12, 13, 14 and 15. Here is the link: http://www.leavenworthspringbirdfest.com/ARTS.HTM As part...
April 22, 2011 Susan, my print rep from Olympus Press in SeaTac, WA, holds up a press proof in the final minutes before we give the go-ahead for the my spring 2011 printing. Susan’s been my print rep for 21 years. Kone and Jason operated the press...
March 20, 2011 The Sandhill Crane Festival is this weekend in Othello, WA. Featured Speakers will be Jack Nisbet and Ken Bevis Friday and Saturday respectively. I don't know how booked up anything is. Check the website at www.othellosandhillcranefestival.org for availability of various tours. Thanks to the Othello...
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems to be very hard to get a certain piece of information about the new tolls being installed on the Highway 520 bridge over Lake Washington. What will the collection-efficiency be? What will it be specifically in the 520 case,...
In a Feb 1 article on All Things Considered, NPR reporter Chris Arnold recounted events that have led to increasing desperation among the hungry poor of the world. Explaining the recent massive surge in commodity prices, Arnold listed as causes the drought in Russia, the floods in Pakistan...
There are many traditions associated with winter weather, Christmas and the winter holiday season. Riding in a one-horse open sleigh is an old one. There is a completely new one here in Seattle and the Northwest. Of course, it's a keeping the hummingbird feeders full and making sure...