Northwest Wanderings

From inside the Cage of Doom, Tesla coil-generated lightning bolts are seen striking the the outside of the metal frame at the SPARK Museum in Bellingham.

Northwest Wanderings photo column on Spark: The Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, on Thursday April 25, 2019 210067

May 15, 2019 at 7:00 am

Visitors get a charge — safely — out of the SPARK Museum in Bellingham WATCH

Northwest Wanderings visits the SPARK Museum in Bellingham.

It’s a team effort as Green sea turtle Azul is checked over and Dr. Kat Reed examines his eyes.

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April 4, 2019 at 6:00 am

It’s checkup time for sea turtles at Point Defiance Zoo | Northwest Wanderings VIEW

Northwest Wanderings: Getting huge sea turtles from their habitat to an exam room and back is an annual challenge for the care team — and...

Following lunch it’s nap time for Amy, left, and Macy in what owner Lori Stout calls their “wreck” room. Amy weights 250-pounds and Macy 150.

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Update on Amy the pig and her mates in rural Auburn, WA on Wed March 6, 2019 209538

March 21, 2019 at 6:00 am

Remember Amy, the dog-like pig? She’s grown up and retired now. VIEW

Amy the pig was the star pupil in dog-obedience class four years ago. After showing her stuff in shows and visiting retirement homes, she's retired...

Dean Moller’s cigar box guitars are all one-of-a-kind and have plugins for amps. He sells them at his stall in the Pike Place Market.

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January 27, 2019 at 6:00 am

Pike Place Market cigar-box guitar maker ‘can’t believe I fell into this’ WATCH

Dean Moller saw a cigar-box instrument online, and decided to make one himself. The first one sold for $200.

Jilly Eddy, founder of lipsology, received these lip sunglasses from a fan.

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December 31, 2018 at 5:00 pm

What kind of impression do your lips leave? This ‘lipsologist’ can tell you VIEW

Jill Eddy takes an imprint of a person's lips and from it interprets his or her personality.

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...

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