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Whether you are a gardener, an Outlander fan, a West Seattle resident, or someone tuning in for the latest episode of Sound Transit and West Seattle Bridge drama, I hope you find something useful here.
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Two Happy Songs with Unhappy Lyrics
Sometimes all we know of a song is the chorus. If we don't know the words to the rest of the song, or the words are in a language we...
Marie McKinsey
Mar 7, 20212 min read
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How to Calculate Storm Water Run-off from Your Property
The EPA estimates that over 770 cities in the US combine waste water and stormwater in the same pipe and send it to sewage treatment...
Marie McKinsey
Mar 6, 20212 min read
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Back in the Day: Election Eve 1980
I shot these photos in 1980. Finally posted them in 2016. Monday, November 7, 2016 Today is Election Eve in the United States - tomorrow...
Marie McKinsey
Feb 13, 20211 min read
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Little Boxes Made of Ticky Tacky
I grew up in San Francisco's East Bay area, in the 1950s. My early memories are of orchards, vineyards and farm fields that grew every kind
Marie McKinsey
Feb 13, 20211 min read
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Create a Bee Friendly Garden
Without bees, we wouldn't have much to eat and we would have far fewer herbs
and flowers to enjoy.
Marie McKinsey
Jul 18, 20162 min read
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Tillandsias
Tillandsias are air plants, members of the Bromeliad family. They are native to Central and South America, the southern US and the Caribbean
Marie McKinsey
Jun 26, 20161 min read
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Cascara Might Not Kill You, But...
You may remember this exchange between Master Raymond and Claire at his apothecary shop, in which he explains his clever solution for the pr
Marie McKinsey
May 1, 20163 min read
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Le Jardin Luxembourg - Paris
In 1613, Marie de Medici began building her "dream home," a palace in Paris in the style of Pitti Palace in Florence, the city where she gre
Marie McKinsey
Mar 15, 20162 min read
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