Category: Urban Walk
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Low Tide Beach Walk
Puget Sound has abundant beaches, providing place to explore wilderness in the midst of the city. Back in my previous life (before Kids) I worked as a park ranger for the Edmonds Parks Department. One of my duties was to lead beach walks for groups of school kids and the general public, and provide education…
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Volunteer Park Conservatory
We don’t always have time to go on day-long hikes, but we have so many wonderful resources in town we can visit to immerse ourselves in nature. One such destination in Seattle is the Volunteer Park Conservatory. We went there a week ago as a family. It’s situated in a wonderful glass building, reminding one…
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Mercer Slough Nature Walk
We’ve been stuck inside a lot this winter, with yucky weather and yucky colds. My kids have both been begging to go hiking, and once they were starting to feel better we took a little walk down at Mercer Slough. We parked on the east side at the Environmental Learning Center, a newer building that…
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Flower and Garden Show
(Note: This post is heavy on photos. The lighting there played tricks with my camera, so the quality is not what I would like on many of them. I did want to try to convey the breadth and depth of what we saw, so I hope you bear with me on this one!) Each February,…
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Narbeck Wetland Sanctuary
At the end of the day today we finally got enough things done that we were able to sneak out of the house to enjoy the last of the light. We went up to Everett, right next to the Boeing factory, and visited a neat wetland there. It’s a good place to go to…
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Urban Walk: The Arboretum
Though I had great ideas of where to go hiking for Winter Break, it turned out we didn’t have a full day to devote to getting out of town. We were sorely in need of an outing, though, so we invited some friends along for a walk at the Arboretum in Seattle. We met K…