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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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SPIDER PHOTO

Life in my house
#SeattleWashington #Spiders
#HouseGuests
A handwritten sign in the kitchen window says Please do not molest the spider There is our house spider hanging above the stove. She may yet go up in flames, but she seems, pretty spry
December 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography
A snowy scene in Boulder, Colorado. A small preserved farmhouse in a park is surrounded by bare gray elm and cottonwood trees. Below the house is an expanse of fresh snow with a few tall grasses poking through. Above is an expanse of cloudy white sky with the silhouettes of Canada geese flying above, working on forming a V flock.
December 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The early winter Camellias have been battered by the rain, hardly looking their best. But a few here and there are still looking fine
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #BloomScrolling #Camellias
A pretty white camellia with pink edged petals has lost a petal, exposing the golden yellow stamens spreading out from the flower's heart. The dark green leaves make a nice contrasting background A pretty white camellia with pink edged petals has is partially open, exposing the golden yellow stamens still folded over in the flower's heart. The dark green leaves make a nice contrasting background
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Gluggavedur (n.) Weather that looks appealing from the inside but would be unpleasant to be outside in. Origin: Icelandic
December 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The theme today on #BlueskyArtShow is #FavoriteThings. I had to think about that, but I believe my favorite things are roads, paths, sidewalks and trails. They always take you somewhere and open endless possibilities
#Photography #Trails #Paths #Sidewalks
A wooden staircase through ferns and trees is part of a trail through Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington A sidewalk in the neighborhood is lined by moss on each side. The sun strikes the moss at an angle, making it shine brightly, highlighting the hedge on one side and the trees on the other. A first snowy day in Boulder, Colorado, with a wide trail in the park covered with white snow under a bluebird sky. It almost looks as if the trail leads to the mountains you can see in the background. A black and white photo: The boardwalk leads to the ocean inlet at Deception Pass Park in Washington. There are hills covered with pine trees on the other shore, and some bushes at the head of the boardwalk. The water is calm and reflects the sky and hills
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Rain, lichen, moss and barberry
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #ColorScrolling #WinterColors #RavennaNeighborhood
Bright red barberry berries glisten in the rain, sprinkled across the photo on brown branches with sharp thorns. The branches are also festooned with dusty blue green lichen, both fluffy (fruticose) and growing growing close to the branch (foliose). Here and there a clump of moss makes for an additional color splash. You can see raindrops forming on the berries. The overall effect is of spots of red and green falling towards the ground.
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Winter roses
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #RavennaNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Roses #EastCoastKin
A small, barely open, pink and white rose sits at the end of a bare thorny branch. It is covered with raindrops. There are two other rose buds which may open in the next couple of days
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It's pouring rain and the madrone (Arbutus menziesii) looks extra polished
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #RavennaPark #ColorScrolling #NatureAbstract #EastCoastKin
A split madrone trunk viewed in the pouring rain shows its peeling glory. The right and left of the fork are covered with rough dark bark at the periphery of the photo, with green moss bits providing some color. But the center of the fork is bark less, and is a golden yellow brown with patches of glowing orange yellow. Looking through the fork you can a background of brown autumn leaves. Everything is covered with a gloss of water creating bright highlights
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Some goldenrod is blooming but most of it has gone to seed
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #MapleLeafNeighborhood #MapleLeafReservoirPark #BloomScrolling
Goldenrod seed stems zigzag across the photo. Each stem is covered with clusters of seeds, the bristly pappus of each seed converging with those of neighboring seeds, making it look like bursts of fireworks of tiny cream colored stars up and down the stems.
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Oak leaf hydrangea leaves
#Photography #SeattleWashington #OurNeighborhood #SeattleWinter #TextureTuesday #ColorScrolling #Leaves #LeafScrolling
Hydrangea leaves continue their color displays until they fall. These lobed and rough textured oak leaf hydrangea leaves are changing from dark green to purple at the outer edges. You can see where there is a peek at red in a couple of spots. These leaves are at the top, but you can see brighter colored leaves below, in shades of red, orange and yellow.
December 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography
An almost monochrome photo: dried and decomposing gray and brown oak leaves litter a concrete sidewalk. The leaves have sharply defined, pointy lobes. Looking closely, you can see two silvery metal oak leaf shapes embedded in the concrete. Looking even more closely, you can see names etched into the metallic leaves. There are several more such tiny memorials in this sidewalk bybthe playgrounds in Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington. I haven't been able to find information on these, but imagine they are tokens for donors and volunteers who helped build the playground.
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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We have pack rats here in Seattle (not my photo). In Colorado we had white footed wood mice and kangaroo rats
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A fiery sunrise
#Photography #BoulderColorado #Sunrise #Skies #Sky #BlueskyArtShow
A photograph of a fiery sunrise shows stripes of bright and dark colors in the clouds. The sunrise, with the sun just below the horizon, is bright yellow and orange. It looks as if the dark clouds above it are capping it with streaks of umber, gray, and deep turquoise. A set of skeketal cottonwoods lines the horizon, with one much closer on the left looking phantasmic. The lower third of the image is the deep black of a pre-sunrise shadow.
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A nice turkey tail fungus (Trametes sp prob versicolor) growing on the cut end of a chestnut tree branch
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #FungiLovers #FungiFriends #FungusFriday
A turkey tail fungus growing on the end of a pruned chestnut branch looks like a velvety spread out fan. Looking down, one can see three or four layers of caps growing in a spiral. The caps are edged with a cream colored strioe, then a tan band, a darker brown band, an almost black band, then a rust colored band surrounding a dark center.
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Hydrangea leaves
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #BloomOrLeafScrolling
Lanceolate and dentate mophead hydrangea leaves fade from green into an interesting array of colors. Among the shades of green, ranging from dark, to bright, to olive, there are hues of purple and lavender, and creamy yellow to white especially in the veination.
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Split gill mushrooms in the rain look like fuzzy sweaters in the wash
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #RavennaPark #Mushrooms #FungiLovers #FungiFriends
A fallen branch covered with gray bark has a small colony of tan split gills (Schizophyllum commune) growing in a patch of green spiky moss. The fungus caps are mostly fan shaped and covered with fine hairs. One has been broken off to show the gill structure underneath the cap, radiating from the center.
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #MapleLeafNeighborhood #MapleLeafReservoirPark #Artsy
A photo of the top of an entrance to the underground reservoir processed to look like a water color pencil drawing. The cistern manhole cover is gray metal, with the word WATER written in a cubic style, possibly in Arial font, surrounded by short metallic stubs that make it appear to be part of a puzzle or a maze-like grid. The area between the letters and grid stubs is filling with green mossed and tiny plants, growing in the soil caught in the interstices
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Traffic circle Christmas decor
done by neighborhood kids and parents
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighbors #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A small tree growing in the middle of a small traffic circle at an intersection has Christmas baubles hanging in its lower branched. The balls are red, green, white, some plain, some with fancy scrollwork. You can see the big cedar growing on the corner forming a dark backdrop making the colors pop. At the bottom you can see the round concrete rim of the circle, with maple leaves carved in.
December 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Backyard find, false turkey tails (Stereum ostrea?) growing on chestnut tree trimmings. The description says they are hairy, which you can see, but the gray green part looks almost felted.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurGarden #FungiFriends #FungiLovers
False turkey tails grow on a branch. The branch is partially debarked, showing a gray rough bark and a smooth brown cambium. The mushroom bodies grow upwards in a fan shape, with concentric lines of colors: orange and cream on the outer edges, and gray green in a semicircle inside the other bands. The green color comes from algae that grow on the fungal surface in a commensalist relationship. These particular ones are quite small, about one inch across.
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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A few white and gray polypores start growing on a fallen lichen and moss covered branch.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #CowenPark #SeattleOlmstedParks #Lichens #FungiFriends
A fallen hardwood tree branch with dark gray bark striped with pinkish brown has an array of lichen and a few nascent polypores growing on it. The fungi are mostly white with some light tan edges and light gray mottling, and are fairly small. The lichens are mostly blue green and fruticose, commonly called oakmosses or old man's beard, and one foliose green shield lichen. The moss is the common cattail moss. The branch has fallen on a bed of dead brown leaves.
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #EastCoastKin ##StunDay
Bright yellow brown dry reeds line a small rill. The water is a deep dark blue, with a few dead leaves floating on top. You can see patchy snow on the banks, a background of bare shrubs and a gray sky above. The effect is both wintery drear and colorful surprise
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Some of the summer's #warmth is captured in a dried autumn bouquet by the shed
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurGarden #BlueskyArtShow
A bouquet of dried flowers and grasses in warm shades of cream, tan, yellow and brown is set in a glass vase on a garden shed outside shelf. The shed is painted ochre yellow, the door and shelf are white. There is assorted metallic junk on the shelf as well. The overall effect is cluttered and disheveled.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Just a memory
Old black cat
Guy Noir died today
#CatsOfBluesky #PocketPanthers #Caturday #CatsOfThePast
An artsy photo of a glossy black cat with refracted light from the window casting rainbow colors on his coat Good old Guy Noir, 2002-2025, respected elder cat
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Teeny tiny bonnet mushroom
Sitting on the fence
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #OurGarden #FungiFriends #FungiLovers #FungusFriday #Mushrooms
A very small tan and brown Mycena species mushroom sits among blue green lichen and green mosses on the top of a dark gray wooden fence. A Dacrymyces species jelly mushroom can be seen looking like an orange dot at the right.
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM