In his lifetime, longtime Madison Park resident Gene Brandzel was many things: a husband and family man, a lawyer, a friend.
Bobby McLaughlin has had previous invitations to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, but something always led him to turn them down.
Sword fern, polystichum munitum: It carpets the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest; it is one of the crown jewels of our native plant kingdom. While it is easy to grow and ubiquitous in our landscapes, natural and human made, it is beloved, giving the lie to the notion that familiarity breeds contempt.
My dad’s parents’ farm on Little Finn Hill in Kirkland was very much like Riverton Heights in the late ’30s, as they were definitely country. When we visited mom’s parents in Madison Park, it felt like a big city to me.
Greater Seattle continues to experience a very active real estate market with a shortage of inventory plaguing the region.
