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A not quite iconic view of the Seattle waterfront from a ferry on Puget Sound Thursday afternoon. I have had pointed out to me that Bainbridge Island is actually bigger in land mass than Manhatt...

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Love the cream color of this camelia I captured from a walk a few days ago. Right before the sleet/ice/snow extravaganza that kept me housebound for a couple of days. There were spots all over t...

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Enough already with the leaves you might find yourself saying, but these are special leaves from a giant Scarlet oak that is over 200 years old and has presided over a view of the river, shelter...

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This is a Euonymus japonicus ‘Silver Queen’, or that is my best guess. I started reading this book, The Grove, A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens and the first plant the author recognizes af...

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What I did on Saturday afternoon. They are peanut butter. Yesterday I took a 3- hour Rest & Restore workshop and then Kes and Most Honorable came by with more cookies. I knew this time of ye...

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Always looking for interesting background shots. This was after the big fall on Saturday. I am fine. My lip is more annoying than anything. It scabs and peels but doesn’t hurt all the time. Piec...

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This is the time of year where it is a bit hard to get interesting pictures outside, so I have resorted occasionally to taking texture pictures inside. This is a tunic I no longer have and a sca...

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The big arbutus on the way to the garden. I have no idea what the white ring is towards the bottom right. It is in a place where a lot of displaced people hang out. I thought it festive on my wa...

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Yesterday morning early, I knew the rain was coming back midday, so I went out and cleaned up all the leaves off my patio and was feeling all chuffed about getting that done. As I am teaching tw...

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Mrs. Sherlock keeps remarking on how much more engaged with the world I am now than I have been since I retired. I did make some attempts at this quite soon after retiring and then boom… pandemi...

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I decided today was the day to tackle three of my most beloved t-shirts that I had inadvertently managed to stain. One is this simple black short sleeved crew neck that has a discreet (small) Ch...

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Love the sky fall, color combo. As you know if you have been reading here for a time, I have this genetic anomaly, I call it, instead of a defect, I think of myself as a stealth mutant. The cel...

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Here is the view from the kitchen window. No doubt what month it is. November here is yellow. And brown. Two hours before I left for my big surgery yesterday, after months of planning, I got a ...

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From last Saturday. I am home now. The week has flown by. The new camera attachment for teaching is working out well. There is still work to be done on getting the lighting right, however. We h...

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Our last morning at the beach. It has been a mixed bag, weather wise, but not cold, or at least not raining the whole time as you can see. We even saw a flock of brown pelicans on our first day...

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The community garden a few days ago. This is the view from the front of my plot. I am not covering mine with burlap, but I am laying down a mulch of maple leaves and there are plenty of oak leav...

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I am not quite ready to give up color yet. It looks like we are finally going to get some rain in about a week. It had been mild, hazy and the air quality problematic all week. That Hunter’s Moo...

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I hope you are not getting sick of the dahlias. These yellow ones were so cheerful a few days ago. Next month I will have lived here 13 years. When I moved in, I barely saw my upstairs neighbor...

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Arbutus on the flower clock, or at least the fruit clock. I think about this song when I see the arbutus fruiting in its cheerful colors. We have a fair amount of it around here, “…I heard it i...

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They were talking about this kind of Verbascum as being drought tolerant on Gardeners’ World on Friday when mentioning which plants thrive at the shore. Getting us ready for the unfolding change...

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New for us, a handmade door on our walk last weekend. I wanted to check out the blue house with the two gorgeous, espaliered trees out front which is about a block away. That house is empty, an...

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I think they call these dinner plate dahlias. This one is just slightly past its prime. It is in the garden a few feet away from my plot. Because of the heat and lack of rain I have been down at...

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A glamor shot of a daisy I grew from seed at home and transferred down to the garden. There was much fretting about this plant and its ability to survive and it is a gift to see it thrive and pr...

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From the garden this morning. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed lately. Unexpected things coming up, like the day and a half notice that they are painting our building and we must remove everything...

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I was listening to this discussion last week about easy beauty and difficult beauty. I took this picture last weekend in a front garden that Mrs. Sherlock and I visit about three or four times a...

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