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This Noble fir has legs as Johathan Muir carries it to the shaker and bailer at Christmas Creek Tree Farm in North Bend.

Friday Nov 30, 2018

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December 7, 2018 at 2:29 pm

Cutting your own Christmas tree: a day of family traditions on a North Bend farm VIEW

A trip to a Puget Sound-area Christmas tree farm can be a bonding experience. In North Bend, the families cutting down these trees spoke of...

Ruby Sullivan rehearses “Me & Bobby McGee,” the Kris Kristofferson song made a number one single by the late Janis Joplin.

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School of Rock West Seattle members perform:

Seattle Center and Crocodile Sat Sept 29, 2018

November 7, 2018 at 6:00 am

Young rockers take the stage at The Crocodile, where Seattle legends played VIEW

At Seattle's famed Crocodile, young School of Rock students get their first taste of playing in a nightclub.

It’s easier to get on than to get off Rachel the Pig, mascot of the Pike Place Market, as Sandy Roller, finds out. She and husband Ron visiting from Muskego (CQ), Wisconsin are celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary. They asked Ting Yi Liao, far left, to take their photo aboard Rachel. Liao is visiting from Taiwan.

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Wed, Sept 19, 2018

October 6, 2018 at 6:00 am

Rachel the Pig pulls her weight at Pike Place Market VIEW

Rachel is one big pig. And piggy bank. Given her girth, she’s not that heavy at 550 pounds, 200 less than her namesake who won...

Boat storage on the north side of Lake Union provides a different framing of the skyline.

Northwest Wanderings on Lake Union and Sense of Place,

Saturday Sept 1, 2018

Obscured views, best views, all sides of Lake Union

September 11, 2018 at 6:00 am

You can see change closing in on Lake Union, Seattle’s hardworking, ever-evolving waterway VIEW

Seattle Times staff photographer Alan Berner drinks in the vibrancy of Lake Union in this installment of Northwest Wanderings, a column that explores places and...

Fabio the rooster gains another blue ribbon for Cora Shieder, second from left, and is a magnet for more from her Hoofs-n-Paws 4-H friends at the Evergreen State Fair.

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Saturday August 25, 2018

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August 29, 2018 at 6:28 pm

Fabio the rooster has plenty to crow about at Evergreen State Fair WATCH

Meet Fabio, the winning fowl at the fair. He has something to cluck about in Northwest Wanderings, a column by photographer Alan Berner that explores...

Ken Olsen (CQ) troubleshoots a problem with his scale model of a Great Northern steam engine, checking under the firebox. Behind him are engineers Chris Haaland (CQ) and Don Deffley.

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Steam engines, mainly, and more.

Sat. July 14, 2018

July 24, 2018 at 6:00 am

In Port Orchard, running a mini-railway is an exercise in engineering fun VIEW

Ken Olsen first bought a used engine that wasn’t running and stored it for 20 year, repairing it after taking welding and machine-shop classes. A...

The shadow emphasizes Katrina Wolfe’s movements during her Butoh performance piece, “The Rag Picker.”

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Tuesday July 10, 2018

July 16, 2018 at 6:00 am

This isn’t for everyone: Sumner dancer tries to ‘wake up senses’ with strange art of butoh VIEW

Sumner artist Katrina Wolfe combines dance, theater and meditation in her performances of butoh, a hard-to-define art form born in Japan in the 1950s.