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Carolannie
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Amateur photographer, avid reader, retired sys admin, ecologist at heart, a grandparent, and responsible for Guy Noir the black cat and Monty the gray shih tzu dog. Timeline follows my train of thought, such as it is.
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Brilliant barberry bushes will drop all their leaves soon, leaving behind bright red bead-like berries on thorny branches.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #MapleLeafNeighborhood #AutumnColors
#EastCoastKin
The small oval leaves of a barberry bush range in color from yellow, to red, to orange, to purple and deep lavender. Looking down on the bush, the colors are overlaid like bubbles of light. Here and there shiny red berries poke up at the end of stems. It's easy to not notice the vicious thorns hiding along the branches!
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Hey, Olaf! Monty hears you. He's working on a snuffle and a shuffle puzzle. He loves puzzles
A gray dog working on puzzles
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Bright pink crabapples. This tree was so odd: the crabapples were growing on short spurs all over the branches, so that it looked like a bright pink knobby mossy hedgehog tree.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #StreetTrees #Mosses #Lichen #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A couple of stems of bright pink crabapples grow on short spur stems off tree branches. The branches are covered with bright green moss and dusty blue green lichen patches. The pink of the crabapples contrasts sharply with the moss and lichen, making for seasonally festive natural decorations.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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It's that time of year when the leaves are gone and the lichen and mosses growing on the tree branches take center stage
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #Lichen #Mosses
An apple tree branch shows off its small collection of blue green lichen (a branched Usnea species, a flat branch hugging common shield lichen, a fruticose oakmoss) and a couple of twigs of vibrant green moss (cats tail?)
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Rainy days and Halloween graveyards
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
Several carved orange pumpkins sit in piled up russet leaves. Their features are caving into their black decayed innards. The once firm, rounded walls are soft and spongy. Nearby are three warty squashes, one large pinkish white one with a smaller bright yellow one on top, and one light orange one rolled further back behind some dried bare shrub branches. More mossy bare shrub branches form a dark backdrop.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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#SilentSunday #Photography
Fish Ceek Falls, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This small waterfall is in a narrow, dark canyon lined with somber pine trees and autumn bared aspen. Looking up the canyon you can see the water cascade whitely over a rocky slope, and flow down the stone and boulder strewn bed to the edge of the frame. The sky, seen through the vee at the top of the canyon, is overcast with just a hint of a patch of blue. The atmosphere is dark and dramatic.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It's a #small world: my daughter looks at mosses and plants growing out of a log, South Slough Estuarine Reserve, Oregon
#Photography #Oregon #BlueskyArtShow
A person with a large straw hat and blue and white checkered shirt looks intently at mosses, ferns and plants growing out of a felled log.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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A #small newt at the South Slough Estuarine Reserve for #BlueskyArtShow
#Photography #Oregon #Newts
A small gray newt with very rough skin slithers out of a patch of dried weeds on top of a nice muddy stream bank.
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#Small red apothecia on British soldier lichen for the #BlueskyArtShow , South Slough Estuarine Reserve
#Photography #Oregon #Lichen
Little dusty green lichen stems poke out from moss and leafy gray lichen. Several of thecstems arevtopped with a bright red cap, hence the name British soldier lichen.
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Tapestry
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #RavennaPark #Autumn #Leaves #Artsy #EastCoastKin
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.
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Shades of brown
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #RavennaPark #Leaves #EastCoastKin #BigleafMaple
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.
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Light and dark
Looking down on Ravenna Creek on a winter afternoon
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #RavennaPark #RavennaCreek #EastCoastKin
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.
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Skies over Seattle today. Time to get outside. Monty is like a barometer, he dozes in rainy weather and perks up wildly when the sun is out.
#SeattleWashington
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Right?
Poster saying: Somebody's gotta say it: l've never seen a boy called a 13-year-old man. In fact, I've never heard the words "underaged man." Ever.
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Still raining but it is breaking up for sun tomorrow. Some plucky roses still blooming on bare branches at the P-Patch
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #SeattleParks #PicardoFarmPPatch #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin
A trio of bright pink roses, they look like Bourbon roses? with very double blossoms. At any rate, the one on the left is drooping and dropping petals, the other two appear to be fully open. They are atop a naked branches, and the background is a profusion of green, from vegetable patch greenery. The outer petals are full of translucent rain drops.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Here in Seattle, hand carved purple sign!
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Stinky iris, (Iris foetidissima) has interesting pods full of bright orange berries for winter color.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #SeattleParks #PicardoFarmPPatch #BloomScrolling
#EastCoastKin
A patch of stinky iris displays several open pods full of bright orange berries. The pods are gray and wrinkly, and are split in three sections. They are amid strappy green iris leaves. Stinky iris is also called roast beef plant, stinking iris, Gladwin iris, or stinking Gladwin, among other names. The plant isn't really stinky unless you crush the leaves, and then its noxious vapors envelop you.
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A soggy doggy rainy day walk
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #RavennaPark
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Wet Swiss chard looks like patchwork rain slickers in the Picardo Farm P-Patch
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #Vegetables #SeattleParks #PicardoFarmPPatch
A small patch of rainbow Swiss chard is growing enthusiastically for winter meals. The large lance shaped leaves are light green with yellow ribs, dark purple - green with magenta-red ribs, and vivid green with orange ribs. They are deeply convoluted and glossy from the rain. There is a ground cover of wild strawberry leaves growing among the chard plants.
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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There is a real tea bush (Camellia sinensis) growing in the P-Patch! I did a double take when I saw it.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #SeattleParks #PicardoFarmPPatch #EastCoastKin
#TeaBush
A small white tea bush flower looks like an underdeveloped camellia. Its 5 white petals are spread out facing down, and its central cluster of bright yellow anthers take the show. The tea leaves are mid green, oval and serrated. I don't know if we could grow a lot of tea around here, but this one is thriving. Because of this week's rain, there are raindrops pearling on top of the flower.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Monty and I wandered through the P Patch after I verified that my green manure wasn't thriving (I left it too late, or the rainy season started too early, so straw time😁). I never noticed the memorial benches before.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleAutumn #PicardoFarmPPatch
Wooden memorial bench dedicated to the erstwhile Charlie Myers in the P-Patch, amid some nice garden plots. There is a glass garden table in front, and wood chips underfoot. There is a lot of seating in the patch, btw Wrought iron bench dedicated to to Antoinette Crotty, "a passionate gardener", set on paver stones, also placed amid some nice plots. I think the plots near the benches are scrutinized for appearance! I guess this wooden bench, dedicated to Jack Rucker, is made of pine, since it is covered with lichen and moss. It is set under some large bare shrubs in the pollinators garden. It is littered with leaves, but has a planter next to it full of green nasturtium leaves. Nasturtiums seem almost perennial here. This is the apple patch patio, where we orchardists labor in fall, picking and sorting apples. It has a property line cedar fence at the back. The concrete pad is littered with apple tree leaves as well as others. There is a green wrought iron patio set with a table and four chairs. You can see a few shrubs off to the right and left sides. There is a polyester apple cover bag on the table filled with dried leaves for some reason. I left it there in case someone was performing sympathetic magic.
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography
A monochrome green toned photo of a raven in Yellowstone NP. The raven is next to a fence on a snowy wooded hillside, and is glancing off frame towards me. It looks a little rough as it fluffs it feathers against the cold wind blowing off the snow.
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A new Little Free Bakery near me. These have been popping up around Seattle, and now our neighborhood has two of them. Apparently the LFB movement started in Seattle's Magnolia Neighborhood.
#Photography #LittleFreeBakery #SeattleWashington #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A Little Free Bakery has been set up in front of a neighborhood house. The LFB, made of wood painted light turquoise blue, has a window door with white trim, three shelves (empty for now), and a peaked roof with the frontispiece painted blue with a dark blue maple leaf. It is set against a stone wall full of Oregon grape and autumn's dead leaves.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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#Bright artsy photo of my garden in winter for the #BlueskyArtShow
#Photography #OurGarden
A photo processed to look like a watercolor A ray of winter sunshine strikes at an angle into a garden full of faded rose colored grasses, some blue artemesia and a few late blooming pink yarrows. The light streak is very rose colored from striking grasses and bushes with faded red leaves. The overall feeling is ebullient and uplifting.
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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#Bright hazy sun, a bench to stop at on a morning walk, falling into winter
#BlueskyArtShow #Photography #MorningWalks
A black wrought iron bench is set next to some winter-bare bushes. The early morning sun shines between bare trees, brightened by a light haze in the sky. Shadows cast by the sun are long and feel wintery. There is a bit of fence in front of the bench, beyond which is a unseen pond.
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM