A memorial wall section with tiles made by the students of a beloved teacher. The wall is about 2 feet high with a black tile frame. The children's tiles alternate with burnt umber tiles. The children's tiles are obviously elementary school renditions of local scenes, and a local person said the M was for the teacher's last name, which she did not recall. There is a colorful broken tile freize at the bottom. I can't find any information on it, but will dig further.

A colorful street painting by the Ravenna Eckstein Park, with lady bugs, flowers and trees all shaped like the petals of a large flower. They used a type of paint I've seen as directional signs on the urban trails around here, very tough, which can handle quite a bit of traffic, obviously.

A memorial wall and some street art
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Old plum trees arch over a sidewalk in Ravenna Neighborhood. The trees, covered with white flowers, are full of twisted and gnarly branches. Their trunks are thick and rough. The lawns are littered with white petals. As you walk down the sidewalk, you can see yet more trees down the blocks of older houses.

A closeup of ruffled pink cherry blossoms on a branch. The flowers are surrounded by buds, promising an ongoing show.

Plum tree arches and ruffled cherry blossoms
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A huge old flowering plum tree growing in a sidewalk border is covered with tiny white blossoms. Its gnarly branches reach up into the blue sky dotted with white clouds. It is taller than the American foursquare house behind it. The neighboring houses are also overshadowed by its spreading branches.

A small shrubby flowering plum covered in white blossoms lights up a clearing between dark bare maple trees. The ground is covered with dry leaves, ferns and invasive scilla plants.

Flowering plums: a huge flowering plum overshadows the neighborhood houses, and a tiny escapee grows between maples in Ravenna Park
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A short, bushy border plant with smooth, green, shiny oval leaves is full of white flowers and a few shiny black berries. The flowers are creamy white and look shaggy. They are very sweet scented.

I thought at first that it was daphne I smelled, but it was sweetl box.
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Bright red barberry berries glisten in the rain, sprinkled across the photo on brown branches with sharp thorns. The branches are also festooned with dusty blue green lichen, both fluffy (fruticose) and growing growing close to the branch (foliose). Here and there a clump of moss makes for an additional color splash. You can see raindrops forming on the berries. The overall effect is of spots of red and green falling towards the ground.

Rain, lichen, moss and barberry
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A small, barely open, pink and white rose sits at the end of a bare thorny branch. It is covered with raindrops. There are two other rose buds which may open in the next couple of days

Winter roses
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Two rounded redhead roundhead mushroom caps make a colorful contrast to yellow brown woodchips and purple plum leaves.

Two rounded orange mushroom caps with darker russet margins grow amid wood chips and purple plum leaves. One mushroom has been pulled up to show its white stem mottled with orange and its gray attached gills

Redhead roundheads (Leratiomyces ceres) growing in their favorite woodchips
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A clock shaped like an eye, with the pupil a clockface, is set in the wall above the door of a local school. The clockface is painted with a spiral swirl of purple of dark purple in a bronze background. The "cornea" looks like a purple splash against mottled bronze. There are two metal "eyelid" arcs around the clock. What look like eyelashes flare into a spray of metal strips at the top. The ones at the bottom have purple-toned balls hanging off them like Christmas tree decorations. The wall behind the clock has two rows of windows reflecting the trees and sky. Is the clock ( which happens to not be working) a symbol of the surveillance students are under? Are the glaasy dots which replace the numerals really camera eyes? Is my imagination running away from me?

A whimsical clock above the door of a local school, with whiskers and baubles.
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A small gray dog is intently sniffing at the edge of a patch of pink, orange, yellow, and magenta zinnias. The patch is part of a sidewalk strip in front of a dedicated gardener's house. The photograph is processed to give it a watercolor effect.

This year's sniffing the zinnias pix.
The gardener here has a strip full of zinnias and dahlias (with some other flowers thrown in) along the sidewalk by her home. A yearly labor of love.
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A playful and colorful mural, about 40 feet long and 8 feet high, done in a primitive style, decorates a retaining wall by the playground. All the images are in bright colors. From left to right: a huge bright red berry; a blue, yellow and brown bird with a green worm (?) and its feet in bright blue waves; a multi-hued; a dragonfly in primary colors with a body that looks like beads; a blue plant with a yellow flower; a red ladybug above a brown acorn; a strange plant with a flower like a feather duster; a pink and black striped snake; a big blue and red robin (?) with an ice cream cone;another large blue plant with a long yellow and gray flower; a blue eyed cat with a wasp (?) hovering above in rainbow primary colors; and finally an orange monkey hanging off a blue leaved vine. The mural is about 20 years old, and has only a bit of tagging. The wall itself is weathered concrete, overshadowed by large pine trees.

Glenn Case playground mural, Cowen Park, Seattle, Washington. Ravenna Neighborhood
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A garden entry gate sits between two white pillar gateposts topped with metallic caps. There are cement stairs flanked by a black handrail leading into a green garden. The gate itself is a brass arch with a black metal spray of arcs angling out from the bottom. There are bright brass figures attached to the gate, four on each side. They are strangely amorphous, and might be whale abstractions, or perhaps large birds such as geese. The two at the top might be tubular flowers with reflexed petals, sitting at the top of two of the black gate arcs as if on stems, and they seem to have black pistils exerted at the top. The abstractions are tantalizing. You wonder what sort of people live here, perhaps whimsical despite the simplicity and austerity of the stairs and handrail?

Whales or birds?
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Two pink and white autumn anemones poke out from abundant palmate leaves. The 5 petaled flowers have a dense circle of yellow anthers around the center mass of green pistils, which will later form a globe of seeds. The petals are graduated pink and white with contrasting veins running up from the base. The flowers are on long brown naked stems. There are more stems around with clusters of fuzzy gray flower buds waiting their turn.

Autumn anemones are starting to open up.
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A roundabout at the joining of 3 streets in the neighborhood is covered with shrubs and trees. But you can see there is a path going into the foliage. The roundabout is in a residential neighborhood, and you can see houses off to the right side of the photo.

At the center of the trails' meeting, there are benches and a rustic little free library. The benches are backed by low growing shrubs and ferns. There is a lot of shade and dappled sunlight.

There is a sign about this mini park set at the edge of a path among the ferns: The "CirclePark" represents the hear of the Ravenna-Cowwn Historic District, an area of historic homes placed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 2018. Neighborhood volunteers created and continue to maintain the native plant landscape you see around you. We hope you enjoy Circle Park and the rest of this wonderful Seattle neighborhood as much as we do.

A lot of salal bushes are in the parks landscaping. Here you can see a cluster of salal berries hanging off their green leafy bushes in the sun. The berries are nice and ripe, blue black on reddish stems with red bracts contrasting with the berries.

There is a large roundabout on a hill where 3 streets meet in Ravenna Neighborhood. Inside hides a mini park, with benches, a Little Free Library, and native plant landscaping. A little free photo bombing by Monty.
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A pink rose is unfurling. Its petals are covered with raindrops, some lining the edges like tiny diamonds.

Another winter rose. Today is foggy-drizzly and gray.
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A bright yellow bike rack with posts shaped like the front part of a bicycle anchors the patio in front of Third Place Bookstore. A customer in a bright red cap perused the sale books sitting by the door.

Third Place Bookstore, Ravenna Neighborhood, Seattle, WA
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An old-fashioned chest, painted midnight blue, with black strapping, a brass lock and brass fixtures, sits in front of a house in the grass by the sidewalk. Its top is bright purple and “labeled in white: “Puzzle Chest.” Then a legend in curlicue letters in sky blue: “Take one. Leave one.” In the upper right-hand corner, small black letters add:” and sticker exchange.” There are a couple of stickers stuck there. There are some decorative mushroom plaques pushed into the grass around the trunk.

Timeline cleanse: I love my quirky neighborhoods! Found on a side street while walking the dog, Ravenna Neighborhood, Seattle, Washington
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A house on the hill has a lot of Halloween decor out! There are pumpkins with grinning faces throughout the font garden, and the porch railing has a lineup of ghosts, black cats and evil-faced pumpkins

Enough pumpkins for you? There are more I couldn't fit in the photo! They haul this collection out each year. The decor is all ceramic.
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