Lavender pink dicentra flowers pop above their green lacy, feathery leaves. The flowers are shaped like flattened urns, with little up tipped petals at the end. They grow in short racemes along thin wiry stems above the leaves.
Wild dicentra (Dicentra formosa) blooming in the woods (also known as Pacific bleeding heart)
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Several bright yellow swamp lantern (or western skunk cabbage) spathes emerge from large green leaves on a stream bank. The leaves are going to grow until they are large enough to wrap a cat. Not that you would want to. The yellow spathes look a bit like sails. There is a greenish yellow spadix enclosed in the spathe, full of tiny bumps that are the actual fliwers. The swamp lanterns, are scattered around a slender mossy redcedar tree trunk.
Swamp lantern patch (Lysichiton americanus)
Soon they'll just be leaves
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The text is converted as it appears on the sign, obviously written by the school children themselves. There is a photo of an aquaric worm, the stream itself, and a scud Macroinvertebrates types of macroinvertebrates. There are many types of macroinvertebrates. Macroinvertebrates help the ecosystem grow. Here are some of the types of macroinvertebrates; larvae, scud, leeches, and snails. Larvae is a type of group with mayflies, stoneflies exc. Scuds look a little like shrimp and swim on their side. Leeches are blood sucking worms that can suck your blood from the front and back. Finally, snails are hard-shelled creatures. That have one opening in their shell. Aquatic worm By the 5th graders at Bryant Elementary Sign created and posted in partnership between Bryant Elementary and Seattle Parks. These temporary signs will be removed by Bryant Elementary on 4/3 Stream types of macroinvertebrates feeders Tolerances Macroinvertebrates are different in many ways. For example, some are pollution tolerant and some are pollution sensitive. There are also ones that are somewhat sensitive. This means that some are more sensitive and some are less so, some are more likely to die than others. If a stream has more pollution sensitive macroinvertebrates, then That means that the stream is healthy because if their macroinvertebrates like a mayfly or a caddisfly they are sensitive to polluted water so if they are still alive then the stream is healthy. The pollution tolerant ones are aquatic worms, blackflies, leeches, midges, snails, and mosquito larvae. The pollution intolerant ones are the caddisfly, mayfly, riffle beetle, stonefly, water penny, and the dobsonfly. There are also somewhat sensitive macros, like clam/mussel, crane fly, crayfish, damselfly, dragonfly, scud, fishfly, alderfly and mite. Bryant Elementary 5th grade classes class tested the water of Ravena Creek this fall to see how healthy it was. We found more sensitive macroinvertebrates than tolerant ones, which mean…
Elementary school sign in the park along the stream bed: the kids wrote up a nice set of signs with various insights about local ecology. This is the first one of the series. Spelling and wording totally their own
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Lady ferns (Athyrium filix-femina) fiddle heads are unfurling next to a decaying trunk. The trunk is covered at the top with mossy patches. The ground underneath is covered with leaf duff and small plants, including creeping buttercup. Lady fern leaves have a feathery appearance when fully unfurled, and can be up to 5 feet high, although around here they seem to stay under 2 feet.
Spring green and beautiful decay
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A deep magenta pink five petaled salmonberry flower floats above my head amid its fresh green leaves and tall arching canes. The anthers are still closed over the pistils. Samonberry flowers vary in color, from almost white to a deep magenta pink. I just learned that salmonberries can ripen to either red or orange, which are equally uninteresting watery berries.
A rosy pink five petaled salmonberry flower floats above my head amid its fresh green leaves and tall arching canes. The anthers are still closed over the pistils. Samonberry flowers vary in color, from almost white to a deep magenta pink. I just learned that salmonberries can ripen to either red or orange, which are equally uninteresting watery berries.
Twice as pink: salmonberry flowers (Rubus spectabilis) in the Ravenna Creek ravine. They vary in color from white to magenta pink, catching the eye fluttering among the newly open leaves.
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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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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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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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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 very many-branched tree stump sits in a green lawn at the edge of the play area. The branches, cut off at about 1.5 meters off the ground, radiate octopus-like from the center. The wood is smoothed by many people climbing into the crooks and stems. It does appear, though, that time is finally catching up with the sturdy structure, because you can see some parts where the wood is crumbling. There is a playground off to the left. There are a couple of turtle sculptures in the background, also meant to be climbed on. The play area is quite extensive, full of well-maintained green grass and bordered by tall trees.
A retake of the convoluted many branched stump of an old redcedar, cut down and left in the Ravenna Park play area for kids to clamber on. It was a rainy day, so no kids in sight!
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A silvery fruticose Evernia lichen species on a branch: the lichen is relatively large, and very branching. It is mostly a silvery gray color, with some powdery green fronds. The lichen is growing on a mossy branch. Everything is very moist and green due to the current weather.
A broken chunk of a large madrone (Arbutus menziesii) has fallen to the ground after a windstorm. The branch wood shows the richness of the madrone wood colors: to the right is a dark, almost black area (possibly disease damage) and then you can see the grainy wood flowing to the left, with shades ranging from a deep orange red heart to a pale tan at layer at the edges. There are a couple of knots, with convolutions in the grain, like a swirl in a stream. The branch is resting on a bed of dead leaves. Several large but unhealthy madrone trees fell this winter. The park rangers have been removing them from the trails, and cutting some down, but the litter usually gets left in place, providing shelter for critters and an insight into the decomposition process. It is untidy and sometimes jarring, but the parks department tries to follow nature as much as possible in the trail system.
Trouvailles
from a walk in the park, a silvery lichen and a burst of colors from a broken madrone tree
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The white petals of a male osoberry flower poke out from a red and green bud cluster. The pale yellow anthers are barely visible. The background is full of out of focus, still bare gray twigs from the berry shrubs.
Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis) tentatively blooming, a first sign of spring in the native flora.
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A silk tassel bush is blooming, with a cluster of long flower catkins in a light olive green hanging down from a branch, surrounded by green leaves. The catkins look as if each small frilly bell-shaped flower were growing out of the one above it. The leaves are smooth and leathery, with a wooly underside.
Silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) blooming in the park. Although it doesn't grow natively quite this far north, it thrives in our climate.
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A madrone tree has an odd trunk. The main trunk leans sharply to the right, almost parallel to the ground. The secondary trunk veers off away into a madrone thicket behind it. The tree trunks are a typical umber brown, with streaks of orange and dark brown. The leaves are at the well-branched crowns of the trunks, dark green, and glossy with rain. The scene is set on a gravelled park path with a picnic table under the trees, and shrubby under growth on either side. There is a foggy haze under the rainy sky.
A quirky madrone (Arbutus menziesii) in the park in the rain
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Some nicely branched, blue green fruticose lichens spring out from a bed of moss on these two twigs. There are also some smaller green ones. A variety of foliose lichens in shades of blue gray to powdery blue clasp the twigs. These are lying on bed of brown decaying tree leaves.
Another set of twigs, looking very artsy with the tufts of blue green lichens contrasting with the leaves in various shades of brown.
Yesterday I forgot why I didn't go to the parks this past week, and saw all the fallen branches and trees covering the trails. The saws were buzzing in the background. The main trail was clear, thanks Seattle Parks!
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A split madrone trunk viewed in the pouring rain shows its peeling glory. The right and left of the fork are covered with rough dark bark at the periphery of the photo, with green moss bits providing some color. But the center of the fork is bark less, and is a golden yellow brown with patches of glowing orange yellow. Looking through the fork you can a background of brown autumn leaves. Everything is covered with a gloss of water creating bright highlights
It's pouring rain and the madrone (Arbutus menziesii) looks extra polished
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A fallen branch covered with gray bark has a small colony of tan split gills (Schizophyllum commune) growing in a patch of green spiky moss. The fungus caps are mostly fan shaped and covered with fine hairs. One has been broken off to show the gill structure underneath the cap, radiating from the center.
Split gill mushrooms in the rain look like fuzzy sweaters in the wash
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An array of fallen leaves in shades of yellow , green and gray, lay on top of the rough boards of a bridge. The photo is processesd to give it the feel of a drawing, the colors overlaid with a slight green haze to make it look like old tapestry.
Tapestry
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Bigleaf maple leaves cover the park lawn. They're layered on top of each other, like a haphazard puzzle. Looking closely, you can see that there are many shades of brown, from light yellow brown, to tan, to orangey brown, to purple brown. There are a few splotches or a blue-white fungal rot. A bright yellow elm tree leaf at the bottom of the photo makes for a sharp contrast.
Shades of brown
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Bright sunlight pours down between trees with some bright yellow leaves. The thin leaf layer tints the light a pale yellow. Young big leaf maples and cottonwood tree trunks reach upward. The ground and the banks of the creek are covered with a litter of yellow and brown leaves. The creek water is a dark navy blue and hazily reflects the sky and trees. The whole effect is of bright and dark contrasts.
Light and dark
Looking down on Ravenna Creek on a winter afternoon
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Looking down a trail between the trees at Ravenna Park, with a green painted fence on the left and a bank on the right. You can see that everything is covered with fallen yellow and brown leaves, with the embankment on the left going down to the unseen creek, and on the right to the unseen street above. The trees on either side are either almost barren with some yellow leaves clinging, or dark green firs and red cedars. The atmosphere is gray and moist as the drizzly rain falls.
A soggy doggy rainy day walk
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A cluster of bonnet (Mycena galericulata? M. inclinata? ) mushrooms grows on an old log among fallen leaves. The mushrooms are small, with convex grayish-tan caps and slender feet. You can see the striation of the gills through the thin caps. The leaves surrounding the cluster are in shades of yellow, and also spotted with autumnal rot. There is some moss on the log, and a few brown pine needles. These grow everywhere, and are the prototypical LBM.
Small brown mushrooms, some species of Mycena or bonnet (M. galericulata or inclinata?), grow on a dark rotting log. They are framed by a brown maple leaf and a yellow-brown oak leaf. There is a bit of green moss poking out from under the leaves.
A couple of Mycena fungus species popping up to rot rot rot that wood away
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A small cluster of white fungi with black feet (they look a bit like fingers) poke out of the wood they are decomposing. They're called candlesnuff because they look like the ( inverted) wick of a snuffed candle.
Candlesnuff mushrooms (probably Xylaria hypoxylon)
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A yellow birch leaf, caught in a spot of light, rests on a dark gray concrete bridge railing next to a elegantly scrolled pale gray graffiti "letter". Another dry green leaf rests in the middle of the letter. You can see a couple more darkly colored leaves in the background. The lighting is sombre because the day is overcast.
A glyph and a leaf
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Monty, a small gray shih tzu dog looks quizzically at me while standing on a muddy path carpeted with autumn leaves. The leaves are from poplars, maples and elastic, and ars green, yellow, and shades of brownish orange.
"I may be muddy and dirty but my heart is pure"
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A photograph processed to look like a colorful decoupage or watercolor: a view of green to yellow to tan big leaf maple leaves viewed from above looks like a flight of butterflies or birds flowing from top left to the bottom right. The flow then curves slightly to the left again The background is a contrasting dark green, increasing the flighty appearance
A flight of maple leaves
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A drooping black cherry tree branch transects the image. It is covered with leaves turning autumnal colors, from russer to gold at the top to dark green with hints of purple at the bottom. The ground in the background is littered with colorful leaves. The effect is a penumbra shot through with jewel like colors.
Black cherry
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A small cluster of shiny bright red berries hangs down between dark leather brown leaves on slender twigs Off to the side there is one leaf in shades of yellow and russet. I don't often use presets when not doing artsy stuff, but this moody preset with its old fashioned sepia toned and crepuscular light just grabbed my fancy. So perhaps this is artsy stuff! There is a very thin burnt umber border to complement the photo colors.
Hawthorn berries in fall. At some point the birds will come through and strip them off the tree.
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