Part of an old bald eagle nest (abandoned 2 years ago) above the creek; its remnants (?) in the creek just below it. (New nest near by with residents😊) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

A lawnmower wedged in a tree; sitting on a big branch about 6 feet off the ground

Not sure how or why, but it’s a lawnmower in a tree🤣 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense

Looking through the valley at Zion from partway up Angels Landing . Foreground is a sedimentary rock face; background is red rocks

Zion National Park; Angels Landing view for “A River Runs through it” #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies

Stacks of flat rocks atop a very large 2 foot high rock in a forest

What else but “Rocky”?
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies

Cross-section of a tree that had been cut down; some artistic cracks and lines among the tree rings

I love looking at tree rings and wondering about the tree’s life: how old? Any lean years? Fires? What was going on in the world when the tree started life? #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers

The foundation in the woods, remnant of past lives #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput

Purple crocuses (and one yellow) open in the spring weather amidst fallen leaves still on the ground

Spring arrives as fall lingers #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition

Green chrysalis where you can see wing vein patterns inside

Monarch holding on to an empty chrysalis just after emerging

Interior where major change happens! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors

A female rider in a red blazer and shoes with red striped socks races a penny-farthing bicycle, meaning the front wheel is huge and the rear wheel is much smaller. The annual race in Frederick, MD is the only one in the country.

High speedin’ on a High wheel at The Clustered Spires High Wheel Race, Frederick, MD
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs

Looking across a frozen lake; a basketball sits idly by on top of the ice

Someone is missing their basketball—how’d it end up on a frozen lake? #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGames

Adobe walls with trunks as beams tied together with twine overhead as a roof structure. Ocotillo stems provide cross strips, spaced to let light in

Nature provides both shade and sun—framed roof in Alamo Plaza #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

Looking up through several Giant Sequoia trees, with sunlight filtering through from above

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekEforEponymous
Giant Sequoia trees named not for Cherokee Sequoyah but for Latin verb “sequor” Who knew?

Cold, snowy winter brings floofed feeder mates, posing in symmetry #AlphabetChallenge #BonusDiptych

6 anthers in the sunlight and 1 pistol inside an Amaryllis houseplant

Oh, the horrors! All that pollen and no place to go Houseplant woes😱 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic

Amaryllis bud just opening with 3 buds

Amaryllis buds now separated; 5 are evident but none are open

One open pink amaryllis with anthers loaded with pollen in the center

Anticipation and possibilities; nature and beauty no matter what stage
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCloseup

Several shelves of books with several stacks in front

personal collection meets inherited through downsizing collection
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekBforBooks

Patterns on the surface of a patch of ice on the creek—taken from kayak

Nature’s artwork—ice on the creek
#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekAforabstract

Silvery Seattle Center in a silvery-grey sky #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSilver

A nice rock in Big Bend Natl Park #RockinTuesday

And berries! Black, blue, rasp, and goose😂 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMulticolored

Fresh tomatoes in December; of course in San Diego! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMulticolored

High Wheel Race, only in Frederick, MD—always entertaining to watch! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKinetic

View of the Roman Pool at Hearst Castle #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInside

My heroes are scientists, especially women scientists. Barbara McClintock was way ahead of her peers (men) and won a solo Nobel Prize in 1993 for her work on maize cytogenetics. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes

Edge of frozen lake where fallen leaves rest in pockets in ice. How? Did dark leaves absorb light, triggering melting? Did the leaves prevent wind underneath and trap heat? Or, did the leaves get trapped in holes already there?🤔
#wonderofnature

#BlueSkyartshow #monochrome

Crowded Koi pond #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold

Love Ginkgo leaves—magically compelling even littering the ground
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold

Kayaking in February on a still icy creek
#BlueSkyArtShow #reflections

Bike on the battlefield, Gettysburg, PA #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforB