Seattle

  • New Zealand Mudsnails

    New Zealand Mudsnails

    My local creek is the site of a foreign invasion. You wouldn’t know to look at it; it seems like an ordinary urban creek, full of jagged rocks, algae, and litter; maybe some ducks skimming along the top. But according to the bright yellow sign by the bridge, there may be thousands of invaders lurking

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  • Condors, Crows, and Thunderbirds, Oh My!

    I can hear it before I even open my eyes for the morning. It’s like walking by a stadium; thousands of rowdy voices clamoring together. Rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I sit up on my knees in bed and peer through the dusty screen out across our cold, grey backyard. In the distance, I

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  • Remnants

    Remnants

    Whenever I peruse the woods and shore at Matthews Beach, just a few yards from the residential creek that so captured my attention several years ago, I hope to find something interesting and significant half-buried in the sand or nestled beneath the frothy fern fronds and ivy roots. Luckily, I have found many interesting items

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  • Water, Water Everywhere

    Water, Water Everywhere

    For when it’s just “wet” out there!

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  • Lavender Blue

    Lavender Blue

    Sequim is the crown jewel of lavender in Washington state, and it’s easy to see why!

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  • This Broom’s Not for Sweeping

    An invasive weed, a glorious golden hue; seed pods that crack, and we can never go back…

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  • Creek: A Love Story (aka Back to the Beginning)

    Local creek in Seattle

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  • Book: Wintergreen

    Book: Wintergreen

    Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land, by Robert Michael Pyle Challenge: A book based in your current town or region (Willapa Hills is close enough to Seattle, right?) Rating: 5/5 stars Review: This is a lovely book. I have now purchased a fine hardback copy for myself, and I suggest you do likewise. I feel

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  • Early (ish) Birds

    Early (ish) Birds

    Good morning! It’s a bright, cold day in Seattle, and the birds are loving it. They have already nearly decimated the seed I filled up on Sunday! I decided it was time to snap some real shots of these guys, not iPhone photos through a dingy kitchen window. I set up my camera and tripod

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  • An Evening in Golden Gardens

    Well, my boyfriend and I were going to take a midnight trip to the Wenatchee area tonight to see if we could get some cool shots of the milky way since there’s no moon right now, but  it was turning out to be cloudy (with a side of traffic) so we bailed around the exit

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