I had a great time meeting some of the skaters this week.

3-year-old Sarah Spudlich of Bremerton touches the fur of the Mariner Moose during a visit to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, January 19, 2011. In addition to Moose, players Doug Fisher and Josh Wilson as well as broadcaster Dave Sims went room-to-room signing autographs and and giving Mariners backpacks to young patients.

Klye Klevjer of Beautiful Day Window Cleaning removes the holiday window decorations from the front window of Kompan, Inc., a downtown Tacoma business, on a beautiful day, January 19, 2011.

The rain dropped to an intermittent drizzle as hundreds came to see Zoolights at Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Sunday evening. One might say that the wet pavement added to the beauty of more than a half million colored lights. Zoolights is open 5 – 9p.m. every night through January 2 (except Dec. 24).

I drive through Steilacoom all the time on the way to my parent’s house. There is one house that always decorates for holidays in a way that is hard to miss. This year, for Halloween, they added an inflatable cat that is almost as tall as my truck. I had to stop.

Construction workers Zane Gardner (top) and Will Ellis mount a brightly-painted metal angler fish atop a pole in McCarver Park October 6, 2010. The kinetic sculpture by artist Ashley Thorner (right) is called “The Aerial Aquarium / Fish Sticks”. It’s part of a redesign of McCarver Park which includes tiles by Claudia Riedener and mosiacs by Jennevieve Schlemmer and is inspired by young Zina Linnik whom lived nearby and was murdered 2007.
Peter Haley / Staff photographer