Alan Berner | The Seattle Times

Participants in Seattle’s Women’s March & Rally turn the corner at Fifth Avenue and James Street. A few hundred gathered at City Hall supporting get-out-the-vote, anti-Trump positions and protesting the rapid-track for another Supreme Court appointment by the president just weeks before the general election on Nov. 3.

(Note this event is organized by private citizens, and unaffiliated with the official Seattle Women’s March organization says an internet posting about the event)

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October 17, 2020 at 4:42 pm

Hundreds gather in Seattle for women’s march

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Waiting in its intricate dew-marked web, a garden spider in an urban setting waits to snag another meal.

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October 3, 2020 at 4:53 pm

Misty weekend fog settles in Seattle VIEW

Familiar sights and favorite landmarks can take on a whole new look when fall fog descends. Clouds are expected Sunday, followed by a few sunny...

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It’s not your usual October cruise on Lake Union as friends mainly from the Tacoma area enjoy 100-degree water in a hot tub electric boat. The smokestack is for the stove heating the water. Electric motors power the 13-foot-long boat from the Netherlands.

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October 1, 2020 at 6:53 pm

Gas Works Park looks to fall VIEW

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Les Schnick is building a hidden internal structure along with Ric Brenden (CQ) to keep the skull, jaw bones and neck bones together. The skull is 8-feet, 3-inches long and weighs 500-pounds and is in Schnick’s workshop in Port Townsend. REF to more photos online

(Schnick and Brenden are friends of Stefanie Worwag and Mario Rivera who own the skeleton. They live near Port Hadlock) REF to more photos online

(The coil of safety rope on the skull is where the eye would be)

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The skeleton of a 42-foot whale with skull at the workshop pf Les Schnick in Port Townsend, and the rest of the skeleton at the home of Mario Rivera and Stefanie Worwag. Also includes Ric Brenden

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A gray whale’s massive, bone-dry remains have a home in a Washington yard. The owners named him ‘Gunther.’ VIEW

A Port Hadlock, Washington, couple have a big beachfront yard and an appreciation for whales. Last June, a gray whale died and washed ashore. Now,...

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A visitor to the Burke Museum during a members preview on Saturday checks out a triceratops exhibit. The museum opens to the general public on Tuesday. Masks are required for entry along with social distancing. The museum is limiting the entry number to 50 or less per hour, which is below 25% capacity.

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(She’s okay with image usage but no name, please)

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The Burke Museum reopens with a members preview on Saturday Sept 19, 2020. It reopens to the general public on Tuesday.

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September 19, 2020 at 4:41 pm

Dinosaurs and more: Burke Museum gives members a peek before it reopens to the public VIEW

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Objects conservator (CQ) Liz Brown climbs the scaffold to a higher level around Alexander Calder’s “Eagle” sculpture at Olympic Sculpture Park. The signature piece has been repainted, with non-original coatings and primers removed, surfaces prepared to receive the sculptor’s “Calder Red.” Brown leads the work which began in July. The paint has to cure and repainting had to be done in summer. “Eagle,” a gift of Jon and Mary Shirley, originally sited at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and moved here in 2006. A grant from Bank of America paid for the repainting (undisclosed amount). The painted steel piece weighs about six tons and is 38.75-feet tall.

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Alexander Calder’s ‘Eagle’ sculpture gets a repainting

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The giant Pacifc octopus the Seattle Aquarium named Kraken explores his public exhibit tank. He weighs 35-pounds and only has seven arms, having lost one in an encounter possibly with a harbor seal or ling cod (second arm down, top left) It’s not likely to grow back but is healed and does not hinder him. He’s estimated to be about 1 1/2 years old. Typically they live 3-5 years, during which they grow from the egg size of a grain of rice to up to 150 pounds. But, most in Puget Sound only reach 40-50 pounds. He’s a mature adult at 35-pounds. The aquarium releases the giant Pacific octopuses back into their home waters when they start to reach breeding maturity, so they can find a mate before their end of life.
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September 9, 2020 at 12:18 pm

How do you introduce an octopus to his new home? Carefully. VIEW

Meet Kraken, the newest resident of Seattle Aquarium, and watch how the seven-armed (yes, seven!) invertebrate settled in to his new home, where visitors can...

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At Bumbershoot this expanse of lawn hosts the Fisher Green stage but is virtually vacant on this Labor Day weekend because the annual music festival is online only.

It’s a Bumbershoot-less Labor Day weekend at Seattle Center.

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At Seattle Center, Labor Day weekend without Bumbershoot VIEW

With the annual festival online, the handful of people who came to Seattle Center this weekend have the acreage almost to themselves.

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LO The wall around the East Precinct on Capitol Hill grows as All City Fence Co., and SDOT workers raise the height with chainlink.

Existing graffiti on the concrete blocks was spray-painted over.

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August 29, 2020 at 6:28 pm

Photos: Wall around Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct grows taller VIEW

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August 22, 2020 at 2:50 pm

Seattle rally supports Postal Service

Local rallies were part of a

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