A very nice, rectangular chicken coop with a shaded patio. A cedar plank henhouse has a nice wood ramp for ease of hen access. The whole is enclosed in chicken wire. A nice brick modified Tudor Revival house can be seen hiding behind the coop.

A stylish chicken coop in front of a neighborhood house. There are 3 chickens in residence but only one is outside at the moment.
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A view of an egg yolk yellow house through the dark trees in a small park: the house is an old style American square seen from an angle. The siding is yellow, the trim on the three windows that can be seen is an ox blood red. The shingled roof is covered with moss glowing yellow in the late afternoon sun. It has, fancifully, an appearance of a bungalow peeking out from the thick PNW woods.

A house in the woods
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A closeup of four four-petaled forsythia flowers is a study in yellow: the bright yellow of the flowers, the paler yellow of the pistil and stamens, and the orange-yellow splotches in the flower throats. The blossoms are set in a background cloud of softly focused branches covered with flowers, with snatches of gray Seattle sky above.

Forsythia yellow makes gray days shine
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A mound of light green to olive green leaves grows along the side of a trail. The leaves are rounded, with irregular lobes. The veins are clearly demarcated in a dark olive green. This patch is rather small, growing amid the dead tree leaves of last fall, but it is easy to see why fringecups are a popular ground cover in PNW gardens.

A mound of pretty fringecup (Tellima grandiflora) leaves by the trailside. There were flower stems with tightly closed buds extending in patches with a bit more sun.
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A couple of small clusters of pink and white huckleberry flowers bloom amid green oval,dentate and leathery leaves. The hanging flowers are urn-shaped, with delicately pink-tinged upturned petals at the bottom. You can see a hint of yellow anthers through the opening.

Evergreen Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) blooming. 'Tis the season for berry blooming. I see the salmonberries are ready to open at the first hint of warmth
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A photo of a branch of cherry blossoms against the sky. It has been processed to makes the flower clusters look a bit like pink clouds, against the blue sky. The sky has wispy white clouds. The flowers themselves are lovely shades of pink and white, with a golden hear of stamens. The bark on the twigs is rough and gray.

Fluffy cherry blossoms.
I couldn't resist
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A mosaic of a madrone tree labeled "Ravenna Park" graces the bench area in the Park. It is circular, with a green and yellow edge. The tree is in shades of red-brown and tan. The leaves are done in various shades of green,. There is a blue sky and a green lawn in the background.

The evening sun hits a stem of bright red flowering currant blossoms. The light makes the tubular flowers glow a bright pink. The five petals at the top of each flare out, variously highlighted or backlit, looking like glowing jewels. Here and there the yellow anthers punctuate the pink. The bright green leaves are out of focus, making a softly hazy background in sharp contrast to the flowers.

A pretty mosaic by the playground in Ravenna Park, and some evening sun drama in our garden making the flowering currant glow.
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A purple anemone flower has a ring of petals surrounding a heart of golden stamens. It is in a bed of soft green leaves, with a couple of buds getting ready to bloom nearby. Everything is bedewed with drops of rain.

Epimedium, also known as bishops hats, has graceful little yellow flowers on long stems floating above the heart shaped leaves. The flowers hang upside down, with four yellow sepals sticking out over a small yellow corolla, looking a bit like a hat on top of a head. The leaves are a tender green with shades of bronze. Rain drops hang from stems here and there. These are growing next yo a gray rock, providing nice color and texture contrasts.

Purple anemones and yellow epimedium on a drizzly day
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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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Two old weeping flowering cherries grow side by side by a trail in Ravenna Park, near the park playgrounds. The spread of the branches looks like an umbrella of flowing pink flowers against a hazy Seattle sky. A basic two-rail wooden fence delineates the line between the lawns and the main trail. There are puddles in the trails and paths. A tennis court is off to the right. The trail on the left meanders into a small stand of dark pine trees in the background.

Pale lavender, urn shaped Heather flowers bloom profusely amid their spiky leaves. The flowers' corollas are closed up to the top, where the petals open like a little lampshade. The pistils pop out like bright lavender bell clappers.

Two big weeping cherry trees in the park and a burst of lavender heather
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A black metal sculpture of a crow glares balefully in the corner of a front yard. It has white legs and feet and sits on a round white ball. It has nicely overlapping rounded feathers with little bits of moss starting to grow on it. The lawn in the background is full of bright olive green moss, and a low retaining wall to the left is covered with fire moss, already turning orange

The bright woody reds of a paperbark maple's look like an elaborate puzzle. This close up of the peeling bark shows pieces of bark fracturing in irregular shapes, and bits are curling away, like pieces of orange-red paper.

Trouvailles: Yard art and paperbark
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A gray rock in a wall is invaded by life. A patch of powdery green pixie cup lichen sports lovely cup-like apothecia. Tiny bright green sempervivum plants with their red edged serrated leaves packed in tight rosettes have a foothold in the leaf duff collected in the rock crevice. Other lichen can be seen growing in the background, as well as some olive green moss.

Lichen and sempervivum
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A small gray dog at the end of a driveway checks out the slushy snow on the plants by the lawn. You can see the houses across the street with snowy front lawns, and our large rhododendron off to the right covered with snow

Monty, a small gray shih tzu, checks out the snow on the lawn.

We got a splash of snow
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A multi-petaled creamy white star magnolia flower unfolds, revealing creamy yellow anthers. The petals are long, a bit like streamers, with a silky appearance. The flower is in dappled shade, with the sun strking at an angle, throwing petal shadows on lower petals. The still bare shrub branches form a patterned background.

A couple of star magnolia flower buds, on still bare branches, are starting to spread their creamy petals. The petals are long, a bit like streamers, with a silky appearance. The flowers are in dappled shade, with the sun strking at an angle, throwing petal shadows on lower petals.

Star magnolias are blooming!
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Bright magenta rhododendron blossoms fan out from the end of a branch like a fireworks burst. The five petaled flowers have long pink anthers and a light pink pistil tipped with magenta. The leathery oval leaves are dark green, a perfect foil for the bright flowers.

Rhododendrons!
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Small bright green Polypodium glycyrrhiza fern leaves grow upside down in a bright olive green moss bed on a big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) branch. You can see a profusion of mossy and lichenous tree branches in the background. This was photographed from a foot bridge over a ravine, looking straight into the crowns of the trees growing in the ravine floor.

An array of green mosses and lichen in various shades of blue to blue-green cover an apple tree branch crotch. There are flat growing shield lichen, a few branching lichens, both sturdy looking and lacy, and prickly looking moss branches. It is a medley of textures. Apple trees seem to have the best lichens and mosses.

Trouvailles: Licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) on a big leaf maple(Acer macrophyllum) ; a lichen and moss bonanza.
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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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An image of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) roots growing on the side of a hill. The roots are gradually being exposed by weathering, and look a bit as if they are clinging for dear life. Doug firs are notoriously shallow rooted and are the most likely trees to fall in windy rainstorms

A young Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) has a mass of surface roots casually exploring the ground, with ferns, dewberries and small plants growing on top.

Roots! Clinging desperately to the side of the hill! Or casually exploring the environs.
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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 few 5 petaled, trumpet shaped, pale yellow azalea flowers bloom on a small shrub. The orange pistil in each is surrounded by pale brown anthers. The shrub has twisted gray branches with small, leathery leaves in shades of green, gray and yellow. It is growing next to a red brick retaining wall with patches of dark green moss.

Pale yellow azaleas bravely blooming under a tree in the cold rain
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An Armand's clematis vine growing on a fence is full of creamy white flowers. The four to six petaled blooms open to reveal pale yellow anthers. The buds are light green, and grow on sinuous red stems. The dark green, shiny oval leaves reflect some blue from the sky. This year the clematis are so full of flowers it's amazing.

Broadleaf lupine (Lupinus latifolius), growing in the park's naturalized area, is leafing out. The palmate leaves have up to 10 leaflets, covered with downy hairs. Many of the leaves in this image have a water drop at the center, trapped and misshapen by the hairs at the point where the leaves radiate. It makes them look like jewelry

An enthusiastic clematis and water drops in lupine leaves. The Armand's clematis is the first to bloom around here. And I love how water drops always sit in the middle of lupine leaves
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Osoberry blossoms form three small white clisters along a red branch marked with white lenticels. The flowers have 5 pointed petals and a cluster of light yellow anthers. The shrubby plant is growing alongside a trail in Ravenna Park, under maples and evergreens.

The rough bark of a, Scots pine looksclike craggy canyons seen from above. The scaley shapes are colored sand, red, brown and gray, and are full of flat tops, peaks and crevasses.

Trouvailles : osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis, a native) blossoms and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) bark
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A manzanita bush with small, oval, dusty green and leathery leaves is covered in clusters of small pink and white, urn shaped flowers. This photo shows a small detail of the amazingly floriferous plant

A couple of clusters of a pink and white "red flowering" currant flowers are blooming. These are tube shaped, with five pink petald bending out star-shaped at the top, and a small white corolla gusrding the yellow anthers. The rounded bright green leaves are barely unfurling at the base of the clusters.

A few pink 5 petaled purple-leaved plum tree flowers are blooming an a rugged gray branch. The petals look fragile, and they do tend to fall all over the sidewalk. You can see a few very purple leaf buds getting ready to open.

A small bunch of four petaled daphne flowers bloom in shades of light to dark pink amid variegated green and cream leaves. These are always so marvelously scented, and a true sign of spring.

Shades of pink and white
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A pair of wide open coral red camellias sport layered ruffled petals and bright gold hearts. The anthers hang down, heavy with pollen. There are several buds ready to bloom amid tge dark green glossy leaves.

#Two coral red camellias
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The bright yellow, hood shaped spathe of a Lysichiton americanus rises above its still furled bright green leaves. Swamp lanterns are also commonly called skunk cabbage because the flower stinks in order to attract the flies and beetles it needs to pollinate it. These plants are in a boggy area covered with dead leaves. Soon the stream banks and marshy spots will be full of bright yellow "hoodies" succeeded by the plant's huge leaves.

The first swamp lantern, aka skunk cabbage, I've seen this season.
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Close up of a snowdrop showing its white and light green heart, surrounded by delicate drooping white sepals. It is emerging from a bed of dry leaves and duff. You can see more snowdrops in the background, with all their long green pointy leaves providing contrast

An egg-yolk yellow kerria blossom, looking like a little rose, opens along a grren leafless branch. A couple of yellow flower buds are behind it on the branch. The backyard fence catches a little light and shadow in the background.

Bright purple crocus flowers sport orange stamens. Strappy crocus leaves poke up through the chesnut tree leaves, alongside a few old, prickly chestnut burs. Everything is liberally sprinkled with early morning raindrops.

I was a little under the weather yesterday morning, and sat watching the dog play in our backyard. Noticed a couple of pretty things
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Witches butter (probably Dacrymyces chrysospermus) grows in several small, orange, jelly-like, ridged blobs on dark brown, leathery looking, decaying leaves. A bit of bright green moss is also in the frame, growing amid the leaves, wjich were in a huge pikevunder a tree, as if they had all fallen at once.

Witches butter on decaying big leaf maple leaves
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Looking across a park lawn and through trees at the fluffy white fog clouds lifting off the Puget Sound. You can tell they are from fog because of how low and large they are, as well as how fast they move relative to other clouds, even though you can't see the Sound from here.

Looking through pine trees at the fluffy white fog clouds lifting off the Puget Sound. You can tell they are from fog because of how low and large they are, as well as how fast they move relative to other clouds, even though you can't see the Sound from here.

Fluffy white fog clouds, no snow or rain 🤷
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A small cluster of bright yellow, 6 petaled, Oregon grape flowers blooms amid prickly dark green and purple leaves. There are more flower buds packed on the stem, from small and dark green to almost yellow and ready to unfold. This being a rainy day, the leaves are very wet, and a few raindrops sit on the flowers.

Bright Oregon grape flowers on a rainy day
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Clusters of small, yellow, 4 petaled flowers bloom along a branch. The flower stamens are white. The bark on the branch is smooth, colored in shades of green, brown and pink. The out of focus background is full of yellow flowers on the same tree. The fruits are edible, and usually are dark red when ripe. Birds love them as well.

An artsy take on a cornelian cherry growing among other trees. The photo is processed to look like a pointillist painting. The clusters of bright yellow flowers glow against the darker evergreens, and the branches droop artistically from the tree to the ground.

Cornelia cherries, related to dogwoods, are busily blooming, creating yellow dapples in the understory
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