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Nodding thread moss
#Photography #SeattleWashington #Mosses #Bryophytes #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A patch of green moss growing on the side of a stone fence has little sporophytes sporting green sporangia with translucent opercula at their tips. The thin sporophyte stem is reddish and fades to a translucent green, the sporangium is like a small, long green barrel, and the operculum is like a green water drop at the tip of of the sporangia. The leafy stems, called gametophytes, are very green and wet.
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM
bennoj.bsky.social
Pier 62, Seattle Waterfront 2/26

#photography #seattle #seattlewashington #seattlewaterfront #streetphotography #streetphotographer #seattlestreetphotography #people #peoplephotograpy
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
kraftphotography.bsky.social
Congratulations Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl LX 🏈🎉 #seattle #seattlewashington #seattlewa #seattlewaterfront #seattleseahawks #seattlephotography #downtownseattle #cityscape #urban #travel #travelphotography #street #streetphoto #streetphotography #neon #city #urbanphotography #nightlife #night
February 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Foggy day in Seattle
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #OurGarden #BloomScrolling #SeattleSpring #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A bright orange rose hip sits between new leaves. The leaves are green, rosy red, yellow green and bright green with a bit of reddish shading at the rims. There are water drops on the leaves due to fog. The water drops on the newest, reddest leaf in the foreground reflect the gray sky, and the red and green of the leaves.
February 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
"Cherry red , sweeter than the honeycomb..." Hellebores providing more color joy in winter-almost-spring
(That line is from the BeeGees song)
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Hellebores #SeattleSpring
A large cluster of dark cherry red hellebore flowers show off yellow anthers, red pistils and green nectarines. The contrasts are very vivid. The leaves are palmate and dark green. There are some dark green low shrubs in the back ground.
February 11, 2026 at 3:28 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
A mighty big leaf maple in the neighborhood (Acer macrophyllum)
#Photography #SeattleWashington #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
#PNWFlora #NativePlantsOfThePNW
#ThickTrunkTrees #ThickTrunkTuesday
A very large big leaf maple grows near a neighborhood sidewalk. The trunk would require at least three or four people to ring it. Its bare branches reach up to the blue sky streaked with some clouds. You can see a few houses down the street, with some parked cars. I think this is the largest single trunk big leaf maple I have ever seen.
February 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Bad bunny show
I couldn't resist, and I'll bet the gardener couldn't either because the bunny was moved recently.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #YardArt
A jazzy frog statuette combo tootles in a front yard; frog musicians line up on a bench stage to play: a drummer, a vocalists, a fiddler two tombonists and another drummer. Two frogs at the end of the stage are dancing. Meanwhile, a friendly realistic rabbit statuette sits in the grass in front, leading the band?
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Mosses on fences
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
#MossMonday
An array of cushions of moss grow on a concrete fence post. Some are green with silver tips, some olive green with orange green sporangia stems poking up. The effect is a bit like a collage of jewel toned pin cushions. A slightly different array of cushions of moss grow on a concrete fence post. Some are green with silver tips( Grimmia pulvinata?) , some olive green with orange green sporangia stems poking up. There is one springing up with long leafy branches in the middle (feather moss?) . The effect is a bit like a collage of jewel toned pin cushions.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
The sun is out momentarily! Here are some just plain pink camellias
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Camellias #SeattleSpring
A couple of plain pink camellias blossoms, with layers of ruffle petals, glow amid the dark green glossy leaves. Blue sky shows a bit between the leaves. For some reason I am not fond of this color, it looks almost plastic to me, but if the light and angle are right, you can see a faint golden glow at the flower heart that redeems it from Barbie World.
February 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM
bennoj.bsky.social
Pike Place Market, Seattle 2/26

#monochrome #monochromephotography #bwphotography #blackandwhitephotography #seattle #seattlewashington #pikeplacemarket #ricohgriv #photography
February 8, 2026 at 6:09 AM
carolannie.bsky.social
A bright #sunshine lights sparkles on Lake Union for the #BlueskyArtShow.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #GasworksPark #SeattleParks #LakeUnion #SeattleSkyline
A grainy black and white photo of the Seattle skyline from Gasworks Park, across Lake Union. The sun is making a bright star behind a pier light post. There are reflective sparkles on the rippling waters. A small boat creates an eddy in the lake's water between the pier and the distant shore. The photo is processed in a mild fisheye style, with the skyline at the junction point of the lines from the clouds and from the hilly shoreline, creating a pseudo vanishing point.
February 7, 2026 at 8:40 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Spring yellows brighten a late winter day, with a burst of witch hazel and daffodils
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Daffodils #WitchHazel #Yellows
A row of bright yellow daffodils stand tall at the top of a sidewalk wall. The gray stone wall is retaining a flower border along the sidewalk, with a taller mossy wall behind it. There is a bare orange branched shrub next to the daffodils, providing seasonal contrasts. A branch of a shrubby witch hazel is bare except for clusters of flowers. The flowers look a bit like spiders with wild, curly yellow legs.
February 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Crocus bananza
Crocuses are busy blooming in lawns, peeking out from leaves, being fresh and telling us spring is near
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #SeattleSpring
A variety of very tiny crocus blossoms dot this border, in colors ranging from pale yellow to pale pink to shades of blue and purple. The border is full of emerging green plants. It is carpeted with green moss. There are a few dry brown leaves as well, to remind us of seasons past. A variety of very tiny crocus blossoms dot this border, in colors ranging from pale yellow to pale pink to shades of blue and purple. The border is full of emerging green plants. It is carpeted with green moss. There are a few dry brown leaves as well, to remind us of seasons past. Two bright yellow crocuses pop up amid a display of velvety looking orangey pink heuchera leaves. The heuchera leaves are rounded and nicely veined. Mossy rocks trim the border. The color contrasts are interesting.
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
I saw my first honeybee of the season, busily gathering pollen from blooming hazelnut trees (not the natives, which are still thinking about spring).
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #SeattleSpring #BloomScrolling #Honeybees #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
Male catkins are ready for business. A small cluster of yellow hazelnut catkins is in the foreground, with its flowers open and full of pollen. A bee can be seen at the bottom of one catkins, gathering pollen with vigor. Female hazelnut flowers are open too! Here five tiny blooms are open at the base of a cluster of male catkins. You can see the tiny immature nut which forms the base of the flower, and the little bright red pistils sticking out at the top.
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Neighborhood stuff
1. A great blue heron? 2. I dunno what this was about, but OK, then. 3. A seasonally painted erstwhile Halloween pumpkin now full of love... but that troll is still there!
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #YardArt #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A yard decoration made with a blue shovel, with green rake heads for wings, a yellow pitchfork head for tail, red pipes for legs, and googly eyes attached at the top of the shovel looks like a fanciful take on a great blue heron. Imagination required! The yard has a neat low blue green fence, with a magnolia growing in the corner. It's a colorful scene. A sign runs along a chicken wire fence, with pink lettering spelling out "NO MANSPLAINING GUARANTEE". The NO is underlined twice. I wonder if there is a sad story behind this? A decorative pumpkin gnome house (material unknown), which had previously been used as part of a Halloween scene, is now painted bright red. Its walls are covered with little hand painted hearts in white and blue and pink. There is a small blue gnome in front of the house door. There is a toothy troll under the painted window. At the top is what I suppose is a leprechaun, in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day.
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Trouvailles
from a walk in the park, a silvery lichen and a burst of colors from a broken madrone tree
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #ColorScrolling #Lichens
A silvery fruticose Evernia lichen species on a branch: the lichen is relatively large, and very branching. It is mostly a silvery gray color, with some powdery green fronds. The lichen is growing on a mossy branch. Everything is very moist and green due to the current weather. A broken chunk of a large madrone (Arbutus menziesii) has fallen to the ground after a windstorm. The branch wood shows the richness of the madrone wood colors: to the right is a dark, almost black area (possibly disease damage) and then you can see the grainy wood flowing to the left, with shades ranging from a deep orange red heart to a pale tan at layer at the edges. There are a couple of knots, with convolutions in the grain, like a swirl in a stream. The branch is resting on a bed of dead leaves. Several large but unhealthy madrone trees fell this winter. The park rangers have been removing them from the trails, and cutting some down, but the litter usually gets left in place, providing shelter for critters and an insight into the decomposition process. It is untidy and sometimes jarring, but the parks department tries to follow nature as much as possible in the trail system.
February 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis) tentatively blooming, a first sign of spring in the native flora.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #SeattleSpring #NativePlants #NativePlantsInTheCity #PNWFlora #BloomScrolling
The white petals of a male osoberry flower poke out from a red and green bud cluster. The pale yellow anthers are barely visible. The background is full of out of focus, still bare gray twigs from the berry shrubs.
February 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
And now for something completely different.
Why is this brass duck head nailed to the fence? Who knows?
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #YardArt #OurNeighborhood
A brass duck head is nailed to the inside of a mossy fence. It's verdigris patina is modified by bird droppings. It seems to be a favorite crow target! There is a brightly stained red cedar fence in the background.
January 31, 2026 at 3:21 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Afternoon camellia in the rainy light
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Camellias
A variegated white and pink camellia, looking like a multi-petaled peppermint candy, blooms among glossy dark green leaves edged with lighter green. The light falls on the flower, but is weak and doesn't reach beyond the outer leaves, creating a dark backdrop.
January 30, 2026 at 2:48 AM
carolannie.bsky.social
More hellebores! The lady has a garden full of specimens and more pots she still hasn't planted!
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Hellebores
Pink and cream colored hellebores peek our from between dark green leaves. These mostly face down. There is a nursery pot with another hellebore behind it, waiting to be planted. Deep pink hellebores show off their yellow anthers. These stand up on stout stems above green leaves with nicely marked white veins. White hellebore flowers grow in a cluster above decorative leaves speckled with white. The flower petals are delicately lined with pale green. A clump of creamy white hellebore flowers grows between pretty leaves veined in white. The back of the hellebore petals are soft pink.
January 28, 2026 at 3:32 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
A new storm coming in
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #CloudScrolling #Storms
An array of dry bush branches and withered aster plants, are silhouette against a dark sky full of billowing light and dark gray clouds. There are a couple of patches of blue at the horizon, and some streaks of light in the clouds show the storm hasn't vanquished the atmosphere yet.
January 27, 2026 at 5:21 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Flowering quince braving the frosty cold
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #MapleLeafReservoirPark
A coral red quince flower with a couple of buds blooms amid gray branches. You can see golden stamens and a golden corrugated pistil. There is a diffuse light from an overcast sky.
January 26, 2026 at 11:50 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
On a mossy spot, moss pixie bells
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #FungiFriends #FungiLovers #FungusFriday #Mushrooms
Moss pixie caps (Galerina hypnorum?) growing in very green moss in a rock wall crevice. The small mushrooms are orange-yellow with bell shaped caps. The caps show striations radiating from the center to the scalloped edges. There is an photo insert on the right hand side showing the flat gills and stem attachment of a couple of the mushrooms. The stem and gills are almost the same color as the cap. The stem is thin, long and lightly speckled.
January 24, 2026 at 12:49 AM
carolannie.bsky.social
Went to check the analemmatic sundial at Uprep HS, and it works very well in winter! This is at high noon (the sun is still winter low)
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #AnalemmaticSundial #UPrep #Sundials
This photo is of a analemmatic type of sundial in the front of the UPrep High School central building in Wedgwood Neighborhood. The design is described below. The sundial is an iron gray cylinder with stainless steel lettering, indicating the hour of the day along the sides. Stainless steel lettering also designate the lines for the winter equinox at the top, both solstices at the middle and summer equinox at the bottom. There is a handle at the bottom, about waist height, to move the gnomon so that the sunlight can strike its slit and fall on the correct hour of the day. The sundial is oddly attractive, looking a bit like a welded futuristic rough idea of a robotic Dakek. ( The followin is from https://sundials.org/index.php/sundial-registry/onedial/746) A unique, 10 foot tall, 2 foot diameter (base) tapered cylinder dial similar to a traditional shepherd's dial except that the cylinder orientation is fixed and the gnomon is rotated about the dial axis by the user to align with the sun. Time is read from the vertical hour and date lines. The dial is fabricated from bronze plate and is hollow. Lines are formed by individually cut hour and date line segments welded on from inside the cylinder. A lever at hand height is moved to rotate the gnomon to face the sun, providing a vertical shadow. A slit in the gnomon tip provides a more accurate sun spot on the dial face.
January 23, 2026 at 9:46 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Late winter camellias are getting ready to bloom
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood #BloomScrolling #Camellias
A rose colored camellia is opening, its petals partly unfurled. The watery winter sunlight strikes the edges of the petals, and the glossy green oval leaves it is peeking out from.
January 23, 2026 at 1:12 AM