Tiny lavender pink cranesbill flowers grace a park lawn. The five petaled flowers have little white stamens and a bright pink pistil with a star-shaped tip. The leaves surrounding the flowers are abundant, hairy, and feathery looking. There are a few clover leaves poking out here and there. There are a lot of weedy cranesbill species! This one is Erodium cicutarium, also called redstem filaree or storks bill.

This close up of a branch of Viburnum tinus, popularly called laurestine because the leaves look like bay laurel, is covered with clusters of white flowers and round pink buds. The shrub is very appealing with a sweeping rounded shape, making for an attractive border.

Weedy but pretty cranesbill in a park lawn, and another viburnum species in the shrubbery. It was windy and wet yesterday. 🌧️🌬️
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A coral red quince flower with a couple of buds blooms amid gray branches. You can see golden stamens and a golden corrugated pistil. There is a diffuse light from an overcast sky.

Flowering quince braving the frosty cold
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A low angle photo of dry wetland grasses shows both the texture and the color variation in the long grass blades. The colors vary from pale tan to orange to red. The grasses form a low wall behind which grow an array of winter bare shrubs. These are all outlined against a white hazy sky with pinkish gray low clouds.

Dry wetland grasses in unsettled weather
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Goldenrod seed stems zigzag across the photo. Each stem is covered with clusters of seeds, the bristly pappus of each seed converging with those of neighboring seeds, making it look like bursts of fireworks of tiny cream colored stars up and down the stems.

Some goldenrod is blooming but most of it has gone to seed
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A photo of the top of an entrance to the underground reservoir processed to look like a water color pencil drawing. The cistern manhole cover is gray metal, with the word WATER written in a cubic style, possibly in Arial font, surrounded by short metallic stubs that make it appear to be part of a puzzle or a maze-like grid. The area between the letters and grid stubs is filling with green mossed and tiny plants, growing in the soil caught in the interstices

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain
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Three cymes of red osier dogwood flowers cross this image diagonally. You can see the cymes are composed of numerous small 4 petaled white flowers. The leaves beneath and around the cymes are broadly oval. The venation is typical of dogwoods, curving from a large central vein upward to the edge of the leaves. Red osier dogwood stems when young are attractively red strong and flexible. They can be used in basket weaving

Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) grows abundantly in the PNW. Its masses of cymes of small white four-petaled flowers are decorative from spring through summer.
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A corymb of white papery flowers is the focus of this photo. The flowers look like small ruffled balls sitting atop a slightly fuzzy blue-green stem. The darker blue-green leaves are narrow, about 2 to 5 inches long, and covered with white hairs. You can see golden brown grasses with more pearly everlasting plants scattered about in the background.

A patch of pearly everlastings (Anaphalis margaritacea) among the grasses, Maple Leaf Park restoration, a lovely sight to come upon if you #GetOutside
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