Tantri Wija

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Tantri Wija

YOU COULDN’T ASK for a more peaceful place to put a fortress. These days, Fort Ward on Bainbridge Island is a haven of daisy-covered lawns, wind-bent trees, quietly lapping water and seabirds having a constant klatch on crumbling wooden structures just offshore. But the site was long a place of vital activity, much of it military, as suggested by the disused, ghostly barracks that look out at one of the island’s many breathtaking views of the water. To continue reading, log in or subscribe.

3 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Tantri Wija

A TRIP TO A place called “Dead Horse Canyon” feels slightly dangerous, evoking Old West adventure and a whiff of cinematic peril. Such a place sounds like it should exist somewhere like Utah (and indeed there is a Dead Horse Canyon in Utah, one in Arizona and even one in Oregon.) But Seattle has a Dead Horse Canyon of its own, located in Lakeridge Park (10201 Holyoke Way S.) in South Seattle, just south of Rainier Beach and a stone’s throw from the rather quotidian Renton Municipal Airport.

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Tantri Wija

SWANSONS NURSERY BEGAN with a love story. And appropriately for a romance, it was a tale fragrant with the perfume of thousands of flowers. The stalwart swain of our story is Swansons founder August Swanson, who originally immigrated to St. Paul, Minnesota, from Sweden, paying for his passage with the proceeds from a pamphlet he authored about horticulture. In Minnesota, he opened an evocatively named greenhouse operation called “Swanson’s Land of Flowers” in 1888.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Tantri Wija

IMAGINE THE Pacific Northwest of your dreams. Forget the traffic and the high rent and the tech gray goo and float away in a vision of mountains covered in spiny evergreens through which a Sasquatch peeks up at a bright yellow seaplane soaring across the clear blue sky from one island to another. And in real life, there’s a good chance that plane belongs to Kenmore Air.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Tantri Wija

“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. TolkienAND NOT ALL those who are lost wander. Some just walk in circles and give up from weariness, some sit down and wait for rescue, and some — perhaps because they went to summer camp and learned a thing or two about wayfinding — can ramble their way back to the path using the age-old tools of compass and map.