This wild crabapple (probably Malus coronaria, though it was sold as M. fusca ) is blooming in our backyard with a profusion of lovely pink and white 5 petaled flowers with a center of golden stamens. The bright green leaves are elliptical and dentate.

A lovely crabapple cultivar with vibrant cerise flowers is a popular street tree around here. These 5 petaled flowers have rosy stamens with anthers turning yellow at ripening. The leaves are ovate and dentate, emerging bronze green and turning a nice dark green.

The cherry and plum trees are almost at the end of their bloom, and now it's the turn of the crabapples to display fresh new pinks and whites.
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Another Sleepy morning 🌄

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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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Someone asked how much have gas prices gone up? In Seattle, mid range is $6.15 a gallon. Up from around $4.85 when I last put gas in the car in February (I don't drive much). Seattle is about $1.25 more expensive than the surrounding area. A 30% increase.
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Several light tan mushrooms with white speckles grow in a lawn. They are in various stages of growth, from darker button to flattening caps. They were too close to the ground for a stem shot. I could have pulled one out, but hesitate to do that in people's yards.

Amanita pantherinoides, the western panther amanita, is very toxic. Apparently it usually grows under firs in the forest, but here it is under a fir in the city.
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A cosplayer portrays Lady Alcina Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village. She is captured in a three-quarter profile view, wearing her signature wide-brimmed black hat and a long, elegant white vintage-style dress featuring a black rose corsage. Her right hand is raised, showcasing long, sharp metallic claws extending from her black gloved fingers. She has pale skin, bold red lipstick, and dark, curled hair. The background consists of lush green bushes, overlaid with soft, golden bokeh light effects and shimmering strands that create a mystical, cinematic atmosphere. ✨Cosplayer: @darkartscosplaydesign

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A florid garden under cherry trees is full of white and yellow daffodils at the foot of a mossy retaining wall. A mass of yellow and orange tulips is blooming in the garden above, next to some sword ferns. . Behind them is a patch of dark red hellebores. And up against the front porch is a rhododendron bush full of cerise flowers. If you look closely, you can see pots of plants ready to be dug in.

The lady on the corner who has the huge collection of hellebores now has spring flowers galore. I can hardly wait to see what she has in store for later. And her cherry trees are magnificent too.
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A small clump of slightly bedraggled violets glow in purple shades next to their blue green heart-shaped leaves. The leaves look pretty rough as well. The violers have a nice open flower with five asymmetrical purple petals leading to a streaky white and yellow heart.

A few wide open tulip magnolia flowers display the ovary inside, looking like a pyramid of pointy dark yellow beads. The flower petals are splayed in the dappled sun, with pink bases fading to creamy white tips. You can see a blurred wall of green tree leaves in the background, with the top showing a blue sky festooned with pink and white flowers

The weather really battered the violets and the tulip magnolias, one so low to the ground, the other so high in the sky... but although ragged, they still are beautiful
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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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Several clusters of small bright red azaleas flowers pop against their dark green leaves. The trumpet shaped flowers have exerted red stamens and pistils.

Brilliant red azalea, a Japanese cultivar, breaking up the shadows
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Frilly ruffles of Trametes versicolor pour down a crack in a cherry tree trunk. It looks like the fall of riffled on a shirt front, in shades of brown, rust and cream. The undersides are buffy white with a rough, porous surface. The tree bark on each side of the ruffles is very coarse, with some blue green lichen, and tiny spots of green and yellow lichen.

Frilly fungus on an old cherry. The tree is in serious decline
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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 couple of bright white damson plum flowers adorn a branch full of buds. The afternoon sun highlights the white petals. The golden yellow anthers and pistils cast shadows on the petals. To me, the anthers look a bit like cat whiskers!

Rosy pink crabapple flower buds cluster along a leafy branch. The leaved are narrowly lanceolate and dentate. The flower buds look like little bundles barely held together by their sepals. You can see a bright blue sky in the background.

Our fruit trees: second year plum trees blooming (fruit this year?) and my native crabapple is covered with flower buds! It may fruit, we've had it for almost 6 years
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WRESTLEMANIA XIX was held at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, 23 years ago today.

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Leopard's bane has bright yellow daisy like flowers that glow amid its soft green heart shaped leaves. The sun is striking them at a low angle, creating dramatic light and dark contrasts.

Morning sunshine
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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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