A close up of the heart of a California poppy ready to shed its petals looks like an orange bowl, with a tangled of ropey drying stamens at the bottom. It almost looks like a hydra waiting for something to fall down along the curve petals.
#Inside a California poppy
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A summer scene in Cowen Park: two cyclists labor along a trail winding through large evergreen and maple trees. The trees are growing along large swathes of mowed lawns. The grass is drying, which is usual in Seattle, where only the park playfields are regularly irrigated. This is the main entrance to the Cowen side of the Cowen-Ravenna park and trail system. In typical Olmsted style, it is flanked by large, spreading deciduous trees such as maples and buckeyes
#Summer in Seattle, among other things, is big shady trees, drying lawns, and people riding bikes in the park.
#Photography #BlueskyArtShow #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer
Day 2 of Bumbershoot is a wrap.
Bebe Stockwell
The Linda Lindas
Frankie & the Witch Fingers
Digable Planets
Real Estate
The Murder City Devils
Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae is an incredible performer.
What a fantastic weekend.
#Bumbershoot
#SeattleSummer
About to watch Digable Planets play Blowout Comb front to back.
#Bumbershoot
#SeattleSummer
I've been complaining about my tomatoes not ripening, and suddenly I had so many tomatoes I had to donate them to the P-Patch community shares. Nice big fat dark heirlooms. What a problem!
#Gardening #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #AlmostAutumn
Split tone photograph in shades of siena and blue A round prickly datura fruit looks like a fat hedgehog, hanging under the plant's leaves. The leaves are large, o)void, with undulating borders and nicely demarcated white veins. The fruit is attached to the thin main stem by a short recurved peduncle. The fruit is topped by a ruffled remnant of the sepals, almost like an Elizabethan collar. The point of view is at an angle looking down at the plant growing above a grass lawn.
Thornapple
Datura fruit
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #AlmostAutumn #OurGarden
A shallow dark blue bowl holds some summer bounty: a couple of small green bell peppers, three dark red Japanese Black tomatoes, and a small, yellow cantaloupe with white netting nestled among the salad vegetables. You can see that the bowl is set on a corner of a dark green metal garden table, with a dark green armchair set behind it. You can see the dry lawn of our backyard under the table and chair
Tiny perfect melon
#Photography #OurGarden #OurHouse #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #VeggieScrolling #EastCoastKin #PNW #AlmostAutumn
A soft pink rose glows in the shadows as it is backlit by the early morning sun. It is a simple double rose, its outer petals curved back and catching the sun, its innertetals still curled inward and somewhat darker and shaded. It has a few dried stamens on its lower petals, looking like tiny seeds.
A bright pink single rose shines in the shade, backlit by an early morning sun. Its petals are lighter at the center, showing off the golden stamens and pistils clustered at the heart.
The dog walk in the early morning gifts a few backlit roses. The roses are mostly quiescent due to the heat
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #MapleLeafNeighborhood #AlmostAutumn
A photo looking down a shady trail in Cowen Park early in the morning, rendered for a more impressionistic effect: you can see the trail, and highlighted patches of ferns and bushes, while overhead the trees arch in sunrise light, with much shadow and spots of brilliant green light. It feels like a deep dark and cool woods.
I love weather forecasts. Today was supposed to be cooler. It's already hotter. Good thing I watered this morning and walked Monty by 7am!
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Time for a cool rerun
#Photography #CowenPark #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #Artsy #SeattleOlmstedParks
A close-up photo of blue mophead hydrangea panicles shows the sepals fading from blue to green and verdegris colors. The emphasis is on the intriguing shades of blue to pale blue to light green to dark green and then to a green-blue. It's both monochromatic and colorful.
Fading hydrangea
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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.
#Photography #Artsy #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer ##BloomScrolling #RavennaNeighborhood
A close up of a backlit datura flower, shows the green base glowing with sunlight, lighting the six white stamens with their oval, tan-yellow, wildly hairy looking anthers, as well as the long white pistil with its yellow tip. The visible portion of the white tubular corolla surrounding the heart expands into a billowy trumpet, with some dark shadows, perhaps like storm clouds. The image shows that corolla is lightly tinged with lavender at the very edges of the frame.
Backlit datura bloom
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A small cluster of 5 petaled crabapple blossoms glow white with tinges of pink. They are nestled in an array of green leaves. You can see other pink and white flower buds in the background. They are opening under a bright blue sky.Ghis is from April of this year.
August, 2025, and a couple of spring's blossoms have transmogrified to little red crabapples amid the green leaves. These look like miniature old-fashioned apples with white speckled and russet splotches. The lanceolate leaves are still bright green, although there are some spots where autumn has started the leaves' yellowing.
Our wild crabapple actually formed fruit! The flowers on the left are from this spring
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #OurGarden
A nice stand of green haircap moss with red-brown sporophyte capsules atop red-brown stems growing above the leafy stems. The pointy moss leaves are very wet and almost translucent due to a rainy spell, and are arranged so that the stems are full of leaves. Moss ID maybe incorrect, I didn't key it out.
I'm feeling a drying up of photographic inspiration...need to look at a new direction somehow. Meanwhile, here's some nice moss from early summer perigrinations
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #RainyDays #Mosses
A small orange pumpkin can been seen at the bottom of the photo, surrounded by huge rounded green pumpkin leaves. The vine is growing in a garden patch along an urban sidewalk, along with some other ground cover leaves and a spray of small lavender flowers.
A plant called Chinese lanterns grows in a sidewalk garden patch. It has small orange heart shaped lantern-like fruit. If you opened the "lantern" you could find a small berry. The lanterns are scattered among bright green foliage o tall stems. The lantern structure will decay later in the season, leaving a lacy cage of the remaining leaf veins for the red berry.
Small bright orange and yellow tropical milkweed flowers form a cluster at the top of a stem full of narrow green leaves. This species of milkweed is not recommended for butterfly gardens because it can harbor a Monarch butterfly parasite. But! Seattle isn't an area where Monarchs migrate or live, so it's okay here.
A brilliantly orange Winnie the Pooh dahlia has a circle of flamboyant yellow petals around its heart. The outside rim petals are also tipped with yellow. The simple flower is growing near a gray wooden fence, making it really pop. It's alone in a bed of leaves, and I assume more flowers will bloom later.
Some orange
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #AlmostAutumn #BloomScrolling
A close up photo of a ripening sunflower The heavy sunflower head full of ripening seeds bends over the sidewalk. The bright green, hairy and pointy sepals curve up to the sky. The rumpled, still bright yellow, aged petals bend downward, obscuring the heart full of seed still wrapped in the drying center flowers (remember! sunflowers are composed of many smaller flowers, the yellow petal flowers at the outside rim, the star-shaped seed bearers in the massive heart). The composite flower casts a black early morning shadow on the wall behind it.
The ripening
Ready for bird migration season
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling
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?
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #RavennaNeighborhood
Coral colored tutsan berries, with their round shape against the oval opposite dark green leaves, look like a scattering of beads in a flower border. Here it's paired with pale green Autumn Joy serum. Later this summer and fall the combo will be lovely with shades of russet, red and gold.
Tutsan ( a relative of St John's wort) us a popular garden shrub around here. It has yellow flowers in spring, followed by coral colored berries which glow against its dark green leaves. Its autumn colors can be spectacular.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #MapleLeafNeighborhood
This photo is processed to look like a warer color. A coral and yellow begonia flower leans over the edge of a terra cottage flower pot. The pot is sitting on a gray painted wall corner below a porch. There are a few light green fern leaves casting shadows on the wall, both below and behind the flower pot. The whole scene is in dappled shade, and is coolly colorful.
A few small clusters of creamy white hydrangea flowers are set off by the dark green leaves. The largest cluster on the right is shading into almost all pastel pink, the one is the center is still white, and the one on the upper left is barely showing any pink. The whole image is processed to look like a silk drawing
Artsy flowers
#Photography #Artsy #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer
Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) has tall spires of leafy stems topped by pink to purple flowers. Each flower contains 4 sepals, 4 petals, and 8 cream colored stamens, and a cute white pistil with four curlicues at the end. The leaves are long, lanceolate and rough textured. Large clumps of fireweed can give the effect of a purple haze in grassy prairies such as this one in Maple Leaf Park.
Bright goldenrod (Solidago lepida) has feathery panicles of small yellow daisy-like flowers on curved branches. The leaves are long, lanceolate and crowded on the flowering stem below the panicle. This goldenrod is a lovely sight in late summer amid the dry tan grasses.
Another late summer flower in the grassy prairie in Maple Leaf Park, purple Douglas aster (Symphyotrichum subspicatum) is tall, full of long leaves and covered with lavender daisy-like flowers. The external petal flowers are lavender. The flowers in the heart start out red and turn into little gold star shaped cups as they open, The buds scattered throughout the shrubby plants open over several weeks.
Late summer flowers in Maple Leaf Park prairie restoration
#Photography #NativePlants #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #NativePlantsOfThePNW
A datura flower the evening before it opens. It looks like a loosely rolled white paper turning lavender at the outer edges. Each of the five fused petals looks like it has a finger pointing outwards from the tip, a swirl of folds. The trumpet shaped bud has green veins running from top to bottom, where it is encased in a light green calyx. The dark green, rough leaves are coarsely dentate..
A datura flower early in the morning after it opened overnight: the white trumpet shaped flower points up and then flares and folds downward at the outside edge. The white in the fused petals shades to vivid lavender at the outside edges. There is a long finger like projection at the 5 petal points, which look a bit like bat fingers at the end of a bat wing. The stamens can be seen inside the flower, along with a long white pistil. The lighting is from an early morning sun.
A datura flower early in the morning after it opened overnight: the white trumpet shaped flower points up and then flares and folds downward at the outside edge. The white in the fused petals shades to vivid lavender at the outside edges. There is a long finger like projection at the 5 petal points, which look a bit like bat fingers at the end of a bat wing. The stamens can be seen inside the flower, along with a long white pistil. The lighting is from an early morning sun.
Datura bud and blossom. The flower opens overnight and dies by early afternoon. It smells like dime store perfume.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling
A wide angled shot of a retaining wall: the wall, which holds up the edge of a hillside garden in front of a frame built house, is topped by a fence made of alternating wooden and wire panels. There is a nice vegetable patches behind the fence. The retaining wall is decorated with an array of modernistic black line flowers and leaves intertwined the length of the wall. They are painted over a rainbow shaded background blending from blues and purples at one end through reds, oranges, and yellows and light tans at the other end. A pumpkin vine has escaped from the garden through the fence and is cascading down the wall about a third of the way down. The wall ends at the sidewalk, which is lined streetside with a strip of dry grass. By the way, a lot of Seattleites don't water their lawns. It doesn't matter much when the weather is "normal" but we are having increasingly long dry spells, so they may have to ditch the lawns. It is odd to see all the houses with bone dry yellow lawns. If it stays dry for too long, those lawns will die. 🤷♀️
A nicely decorated retaining wall
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #WedgwoodNeighborhood
Dahlias in shades of yellow and orange against a wooden fence in the P-Patch. The dahlias petals' colors are graduated from yellow to orange to red, and are unfurling from tightly folded buds held at the inside of the flowers . The leaves are dark green. There are also a few stems of bright red crocosmia harmonizing like a large bouquet. There are water drops throughout due to an unscheduled morning shower.
Bright fuschia shaggy dahlias burst out all through this bushy plant in the P-Patch. They look a bit like bright suns against the dark green leaves.
Some more mad dahlias this summer, in the Picardo P-Patch
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #PicardoFarmPPatch #SeattleParks
Small gray shih tzu dog in a pile of throws. You can only see the bavk of his head and upper body. The throws are gray and rust. He is resting his head on a pillow with rust, turquoise and cream designs
It's raining ( definitely not in the forecast!) and Monty is in dog log mode
#DogsOfBluesky #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #RainyDays
#ShihTzusOfBluesky
Photo a Day: Day 205 of 365 - In Summer, In the City
#photoaday #day205 #2025 #seattle #seattlesummer #sunset #electricbus
A really tall cedar tree has a trunk split into 5 just above ground level. You can't see the tree top, but the trunks are rough, red and gray. They're close enough together You can barely see the house behind them through the trunks. The lawn in front of the house is spacious and bordered with graceful evergreen and birch trees. The early morning light is dappled with shade on the sidewalk under the cedar.
I keep meaning to post this on #ThickTrunkThursday or is it #TreeThursday? At any rate, this tree with its trunk split 5 ways graces the lawn on a corner of Ravenna Neighborhood
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #Trees
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.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #RavennaNeighborhood
A stalk of white four petaled broccolini flowers towers above a patch of vegetables in our garden. The flowers are bright white, and have bright green sepals. There are six stamens with yellow anthers and one green pistil in the slightly tubular base of the flowers. The garden ba ground is an abstract patchwork of colors: green to blue leaf colors and dry golden grass in a stained glass effect.
Broccolini in bloom
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #BloomScrolling #OurGarden
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.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #RavennaNeighborhood #SeattleParks
