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MAN’S RELATIONSHIP TO bees has long been both sacred and regal. The ancient Greeks venerated Aristaeus, the god of beekeeping; bees have their own patron saint in Catholicism (St. Valentine); and even Napoleon Bonaparte chose the bee as a symbol of his reign.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Tantri Wija

WHEN MAN FIRST sought an ever-fixed mark to guide his wandering bark, in the night-darkness of the past he had only to look up to find it. While the moon was changeable and fickle, the North Star shone brightly in the same place every night. This is the role that Travis Clark and Wolfgang Eastman, the married couple who own the North Star Diner (and the associated Shanghai Room) in Greenwood, hoped their space would occupy in the neighborhood when they opened in 2015.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

2 months 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.