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A pastel calico cat looks at the photographer. She is sitting on a light gray throw next to a sunny windowsill sporting a cup of morning coffee.

I am in a catopause, no more cats for me. But I still remember past cats fondly.
Tish for #Caturday on a mild sunny morning
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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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This image features a person in an elaborate Ursula-inspired cosplay, characterized by lavender skin, platinum white hair, and a black and purple strapless gown. They are posing outdoors with a shell necklace, purple gloves, and a black clutch. The scene is enhanced with digital effects, including glowing blue potion bottles on a shelf and a large cauldron emitting vibrant green and teal smoke.

“Yes, indeed! Now it's happened once or twice, someone couldn't pay the price, and I'm afraid I have to rake them across the coals!” #thelittlemermaid #disney #ursulacosplay #shelbydalestudio #photography #cosplayphotography #photoedit #eccc2019 #seattlewashington #washintonstate

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 group of parents help their little ones figure out how to kick a, soccer ball. There is a training set up with markers on the open field at Maple Leaf Reservoir Park, with a couple of goal nets being set up. Everyone is bundled up because it is cold.

Mom and child rush to join the soccer training already in progress on the Maple Leaf Reservoir Park field. The sky is overcast, the grass sodden, and it is cold.

Soccer indoctrination camp on Saturdays. The kids in Seattle get more group activities than I've ever seen anywhere! This is for kids barely out of diapers, getting cheered on as they take turns bravely kicking a ball into a goal.
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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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Seattle proud.
NikonZ8 
24mm
90sec
F11
iso 250

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A vibrant photograph of the Seattle Great Wheel at sunset. The Ferris wheel is silhouetted against a dramatic sky filled with heavy, textured clouds illuminated in brilliant shades of gold, orange, and yellow. In the foreground, the brick facade of "Miners Landing" and "The Crab Pot Seafood Bar" is visible. A bright sunburst peeks through the base of the wheel, casting a warm glow over the entire scene.

Golden hour hits different on the waterfront. 🎡✨ #seattlewashington #seattle #ferriswheel #goldenhour #Seattlegreatwheel #sunset

A red neon sign saying "Massage" in a downstairs window of an old wooden clapboard apartment buikding glows in the shade. There is a walkway up to the door lined by what looks like an amateurish rock wall topped by wrought iron bannisters. A large white balcony overhangs the entrance. This massage parlor (?) sits in an old building surrounded by vacant lots in the process of being built up along 65th Street. It too will probably be destroyed soon.

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I think this smurf house pumpkin yard decor may be nearing the end of its ability to be painted for a special holiday: now it is painted a bright green, with darker green shamrocks decorating it. A brave blue smurf sits near its round doorway

Around the neighborhood: soon to be a victim of gentrification, Puget Sound humor, and ready for St. Paddy's day
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A vividly purple small building housing a dry cleaning business sits in a busy intersection. The back of the building has a corner wall. It features a mural with, on one side, a black and white woman's face and a colorful pair of disembodied eyes looking as if they are peering over a veil. Over all there are the words "You look nice today." The other side shows a grinning black and white woman's face with an orange sun and a clothes hanger with the word "cleaners" in a blue background.

Artist Ryan Henry Ward is in the process of painting 1000 Sasquatches across Seattle. This garage door has a cartoon Sasquatch head amiably looking out at passersby. There is a squirrel peering over the legendary creature's head, and some greenery framing the sides. https://www.henry.art/sasquatch-project.html

Murals in the neighborhood: an unknown artist painted the ogling faces on the dry cleaners' building (is that purple enough for you?) and one of Henry's sasquatch's decorates a (converted) garage door
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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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Black and white: Rain drops captured in a smoke tree's filaments look like an explosion of transparent beads tangled in black threads

Sepia monochrome: A pair of Lime electric bikes with baskets wait on a street corner sidewalk for pickup. The street is glazed with rain, and the ground is littered with the remains of last fall's leaves.

It's really cold, rainy and windy! From the archives, other rainy days in Seattle
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A few yellow stringy witch hazel petals still cling to the calyces on a bare branch. The witch hazel calyx is a deep maroon square cup shape, and peeking in you can see the remains of the pistil. The branch is growing by a mossy brick wall, and green shrubbery form a backdrop. Witch hazel fruit take a year to mature. The calyx falls off, and a green fuzzy capsule is left behind. When ready to seed, the capsule explodes and throws its seeds as far as 30 feet away.

A winter-bare wisteria vine trunk, with two main stems twisting around each other, leans against a gray board fence. The trunk is dark gray mottled with light gray lichen spots and coated with patches of moss.

Witch hazel fruits and a casually twisted wisteria trunk
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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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An orange cafe set in the converted driveway of an upgraded garage. The garages and driveways around here are often partially below ground level because Seattle is hilly. But the older houses have driveways that are too narrow for parking. So many garages get converted for other uses, including children's playrooms or mother-in-law apartments. This conversion is very nice, creating a small patio with trellising for winding vines and mortared walls. There are a couple of wooden French doors on the erstwhile garage.

Some yard art: A patio party of frogs is rollicking along by the sidewalk. A couple of frogs enjoy reading books on a bench. One sprawls in the sun on a chaise longue. A fiddling frog provides music. A fancy umbrella provides shade for a couple of younsters playing leapfrog.

For some reason the orange cafe set struck me. The frog group (frogs are popular around here!) has grown from three lounging in the sun to a whole patio party with umbrella and fiddler in the past two years
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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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Kinnickkinnick, a low growing ground cover, has small tough blue-green leaves growing on orange stems. It is covered in pink urn shaped flowers, typical of the heather (Ericaceae) family.

The chartreuse and golden yellow flowers of the Mediterranean spurge are interesting . They grow in a clump at the end of a stem full of strappy blue green leaves. This close up is of a flower clump in a rocky garden full of raindrops. Each blossom looks like a wide-mouthed funnel, harboring two smaller funnels at the end of tiny stems. The first funnel has a golden yellow star shaped pistil. The other funnels are male and have a little anther structure that looks a bit like a fountain spray. Weird flowers.

Our native kinnickkinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) makes a pretty groundcover. And I really don't like the Mediterranean spurge that is so popular here, but it has interesting flowers.
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