Sign at the Ballard Locks (Seattle), thanks Trump.

Today in Ballard, Seattle, and a good turnout for the Protest.

Here’s one of Seattle’s first Wildlife Sanctuary lot in Ballard 3003 NW 70th St. Looks like the owner is gone, house boarded up and a picture and candle in the parking strip. A real gem : vital for animals, the lot all trees and shrubs.

“We have the largest biomass forests in the world” says Theo Hoss our stellar UW Campus Tree Tour guide standing in front of a Paper Birch. Saturday’s tour focused on Washington State natives.

Camperdown Elm on our block survived construction of a new house, but limbed up. It is 100 years old and a focus tree on our Ballard Seattle block.

ERA more important than ever! 28 states have the ERA or gender equality language. It will be the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, first passed in Congress 1972.

Here’s a Mazzard Cherry living at 3033 NW 62nd (Ballard). According to Street Trees of Seattle by Taha Ebrahimi this tree is the first recorded cherry tree in the public right-of-way.

A blooming Scrophularia, a figwort in my garden seeded 20 years ago, a close and old relative of the Foxglove. Seeds itself about the garden, its blooms are orange, bee and hummingbird magnet.

Happy Beltane, first day of summer.

Show up. Organize. Resist. Dedicated to the best organizer in US history Susan B. Anthony.