A woman walks her dog around Golden Gardens in January. The popular spot marks the beginning of a long walk to Magnuson Park. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)
A woman walks her dog around Golden Gardens in January. The popular spot marks the beginning of a long walk to Magnuson Park. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)
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West Seattle resident Lori Graham swims at Madison Park Beach on Tuesday. Graham usually takes her swims at Alki Beach, but decided the water temperature might be better on a day like today. Also, she added, Mount Rainier was out today. Seattle area is seeing sunny skies and higher temperatures this week. Tuesday, April 13, 2021. LO
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Washington setter Ella May Powell serves in the third set as the University of Washington Huskies take on the Stanford Cardinal for their final home volleyball game of the season at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle Sunday March 28, 2021. 216729
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A body is taken from the scene where multiple people were shot at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Friday, April 16, 2021. A gunman killed several people and wounded others before taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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A Universal Studios team member sanitizes every person’s hands in line before taking a ride at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, as it officially reopens to the public in Los Angeles, Friday, April 16, 2021. The park operates at 25% capacity with COVID-19 protocols, enhanced sanitization procedures and implemented additional measures for social distancing and screenings. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) CADD507

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These rows of Western Hemlock seedlings are part of the “Grow it Forward” program that Seattle’s Jim Wright started at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In a year or two, these Western Hemlock seedlings will have become small trees and they will be donated to local parks and forests.

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A Camellia’s prominent pollen-producing stamens venture out into the air at the Seattle Japanese Garden, one of countless extraordinary scenes often no bigger than a coin, as Spring unfolds around Seattle and viewed using a close-up lens Sunday, April 4, 2021. 216811
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Nikita Ares CQ, a Seattle-based painter, works Tuesday, March 30, 2021 to install her first exhibition at the newly-opened Museum of Museums CQ on First Hill. 216766
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Clockwise from left, Narayan MacGowan, Sahej MacGowan, Halia Correia and Beau Rosen, front, look through the eggs they’ve found at a community Easter egg hunt at Seattle’s Interlaken Park Sunday April 4, 2021. Over 300 eggs were hidden by Kellie Sloan and her son to bring some Easter joy to the neighborhood kids.
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The fast ferry Enetai cruises by Blake Island having to give way to a Washington State ferry at the Southworth terminal. There is only one slip and WSF has priority. Saturday March 27, 2021 216743
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