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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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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The photo shows a portion of a small fallen tree trunk stripped of its bark and full of grooves bored by bark beetles. The wood is a golden brown. The curvy grooves are darkened almost to black. They look like runic writing curling around the trunk. The trunk is resting on a bed of small leafy understory plants.

Cryptic scripting in the forest
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A fallen hardwood tree branch with dark gray bark striped with pinkish brown has an array of lichen and a few nascent polypores growing on it. The fungi are mostly white with some light tan edges and light gray mottling, and are fairly small. The lichens are mostly blue green and fruticose, commonly called oakmosses or old man's beard, and one foliose green shield lichen. The moss is the common cattail moss. The branch has fallen on a bed of dead brown leaves.

A few white and gray polypores start growing on a fallen lichen and moss covered branch.
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A view of Japanese maple leaves in an array of colors: the leaves look like stars cascading down. They are dense, overlapping each other, with colors ranging from a lime green in the upper left, to pink, orange, red, and darker shades at the bottom right. The leaves are palmate with seven or so dentate, well defined lobes.

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" E. M. Forster

Japanese maple in the park in autumn
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A small gray shih tzu with a plumy tail curved over his back looks up expectantly. He is standing patiently in the middle of autumn's maple leaves, which carpet the ground in brilliant shades of yellow, maroon, red, orange, and some brown.

Yeah, yeah, I posed for you. Where's my treat?
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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
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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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Looking up at the flower panicles on a horse chestnut tree in the park. The tree is full of panicles of white flowers The 5 petaled flowers start out light green, then brighten to white with yellow spots at the base of the top two petals, and later these spots turn bright pink. The green leaves of the tree obscure some of the panicles. The leaves are composite and palmate with 5 to 7 leaflets joined at the top of the leaf stem. In this shot, if you expand it, you can see the trunk of the tree as well as those of a couple of trees behind it. Horse chestnuts are poisonous to most animal except squirrels. Interestingly (to me at least!) horse chestnuts, and their cousin the American buckeye, are related to maples, whereas edible chestnuts are related to oaks.

Looking up at a horse chestnut tree in full bloom in the park
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A bright yellow skunk cabbage flower spadix pushes out of its yellow spathe. It is growing out of a cluster of large, intensely green, oval leaves which will soon be the largest leaves in the area. This plant was growing on the side of a trail in muddy soil, surrounded by ferns and plant duff.

I finally spotted the swamp lanterns, aka skunk cabbage. growing along the trails and stream banks. There were a lot of them! A celebratory spring photo of Lysichiton americanus in Seattle
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A backlit pale pink five petaled flower hangs at the top of an almost leafless branch in the dappled light of the woods' understory . Its green sepals curve outwards a bit. Inside you can see its anthers still bent over the nascent berry.

We found one pale pink salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) bush in bloom, promising insipid fruit in fall. Although the birds love them. No accounting for taste.
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Arctic sweet coltsfoot or butterburr is blooming amid its big palmate leaves in Cowen Park. The flowers are collected in an umbel of composite blooms. Each composite is made of pink to white tubular flowers tightly packed together, a bit like dandelions. These plants like swampy soil, which I once discovered my to my chagrin. The dog was pretty well muddled up too.

Here they are again! Arctic sweet coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus) on a warm sunny PNW day. I decided the dog and I should check out the muddy trails to see if anything was finally blooming, and anything was!
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Looking up into a big leaf maple tree you can see a zig-zag flight of leaves turning yellow and brown. The leaves are palmate and heavily dentate. They are backlit by the thin sunlight and the backdrop of dark Douglas fir trees provides a nice contrast.

Big leaf maple trees do not turn a uniform lovely yellow in fall, but instead gradually brown out. But they still glow in autumn colors against the sky.
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Seattle casual birding: My Merlin app ID'd a bird I couldnt quite identify, as a raven. I thought, nah, no ravens around here. Then I looked up hearing the raven coming closer and yelling its head off. I saw it. Pursued by a bunch of crows. Poor bird.
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