Sweat is trickling down your brow now, your thighs and calves are warm and working as they're intended, your mind wandering with your eye; a green and white ferry leaves Coleman Dock, a red and white Coast Guard cutter steams into Elliott Bay, seagulls squawk. A friendly female jogger smiles as she passes coming the other way, you wipe your forehead with your wrist and begin to round Duwamish Head, breathing rhythmically, feeling the sun's glow, smelling salt air. Into full view strides the Olympics, the twin peaks of The Brothers most prominent, their shoulders cloaked in fading snow.
By Greg Johnston | June 23, 2005
In a month when many feel besieged by the cultural storm that has become the holidays, there is a startlingly beautiful and peacefully distracting invasion in our midst. The winter birds have arrived.
In a locale where many, with curmudgeonly resignation, accept the gray months as something "you get through," there is joyful relief in sighting the season's first buoyant bufflehead, or recognizing the all-dressed-up glide of the brant goose.
By Maria Dolan and Kathryn True | December 18, 2003
Take a Walk
Location: Seattle
Length: 2.8 miles.
Level of difficulty: Flat, paved path; inner lane for walkers/runners/baby strollers and outer lane for skaters/bikers. Also a few dirt/gravel trail spurs.
By Cathy McDonald | April 25, 2002
