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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

A mustard yellow house with a salmon colored soffit. Is dinner calling?

That bright red object in the carport is, amazingly, their car.

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A mustard yellow house with a salmon colored soffit. Is dinner calling?

That bright red object in the carport is, amazingly, their car.

A corner shot of a mid century modern house with mustard yellow siding, white trim, a flat roof and salmon pink soffit under the roof overhang. The front wall of the house is covered halfway up with textured sand colored stone. There is a sturdy carport with wooden posts and a metal roof at the front of the house, and you can see glimpses of a bright red car partially hidden by the bushes lining the port. The house has the split levels typical of the Seattle hillside areas, with a partially below ground floor

#photography #seattlewashington #ourneighborhood #colorfulhouses #seattleautumn

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

A nice weeping birch. Most that I have seen are diseased and variously trimmed to unshapely messes. Tbh, they are short-lived trees and may have been

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A nice weeping birch. Most that I have seen are diseased and variously trimmed to unshapely messes. Tbh, they are short-lived trees and may have been fashionable 40 or so years ago.

A weeping birch growing in a front yard, next to a wooden fence, dominates the Japanese maples and crabapples around it. The three part trunk is mostly white, with black and gray patches. The leafy branches, about 20 feet up (~7m) droop down and form a nice cascade of green backlit by the morning sun. The sidewalk leads to a tunnel of small street trees and front yards full of shrubs.

#photography #seattlewashington #ourneighborhood #seattleautumn #betulapendula

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

Another candelabrum tree, Thuja plicata, redcedar, on a street corner. It overpowers the house next to it and intimidates pedestrians. As it should.

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Another candelabrum tree, Thuja plicata, redcedar, on a street corner. It overpowers the house next to it and intimidates pedestrians. As it should.

A multi-trunk redcedar looms over a sidewalk in a Seattle neighborhood. The tree has a rough red-gray bark. I count eight smaller trunks rising from the base, most shooting straight up. There are a couple of trunks leaning right and left. A couple of trunk-sized branches are growing out of main stems. There is a foam of English ivy at the base of the cedar, and you can see the brightly lit sidewalk off to the left leading away from the tree.

#photography #trees #thicktrunktuesday #treetuesday #seattlewashington #ourneighborhood

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

Was looking at redosier dogwood (Cornus sericea) berries, was visited by this crane fly

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Was looking at redosier dogwood (Cornus sericea) berries, was visited by this crane fly

A cluster of round white dogwood berries droops down amid the bush's oval green leaves. There is a dead leaf on the ground, turning bright yellow. The leaf and berry stems are a somber red, which gets brighter in winter. A pale tan crane fly has landed on a green dogwood leaf. It has very long legs that reach out beyond its translucent, golden, veined wings, balancing it in the middle. Its body is long and looks very fragile.

#photography #nativeplants #seattlewashington #ourneighborhood #nativeplantsofthepnw #seattleparks #seattleautumn #sacajaweapark

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

I was testing a blackberry, along came a spider and jumped out beside me

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I was testing a blackberry, along came a spider and jumped out beside me

A few blackberries, mostly ripe, peek out from behind their serrate leaves. The leaves are still green, but are fading to autumnal yellows. The blackberries look good, with light reflecting off their glossy druplet A common garden spider, with her pretty brown and tan decorative abdomen, and fierce hairy legs, lurks in her web. She has just leaped out from behind some leaves, alerted by my berry picking. Alas, I am too large to be useful prey.

#photography #spiders #seattlewashington #blackberries #seattleautumn #sacajaweapark #seattlepocketparks

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

Color bonanza: red, yellow, white, slate blue, and a sage green porch chair.

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Color bonanza: red, yellow, white, slate blue, and a sage green porch chair.

A yellow Craftsman bungalow stands out with red frieze, white porch columns and window trim, and slate blue porch stair treads with red risers. The house is fronted by bushes and shrubs.

#photography #seattlewashington #seattlesummer #ourneighborhood #colorfulhouses

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

The henhouse is all spiffed up. The hens were hiding in the shade. We now know their names are Willow, Sequoia and Cypress. They have lovely hanging p

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The henhouse is all spiffed up. The hens were hiding in the shade. We now know their names are Willow, Sequoia and Cypress. They have lovely hanging plant baskets to beautify their home. I wonder if they are laying?

The chicken coop we admired a couple of months ago has had some home improvements. The spacious rectangular coop is built of wood, with a nice chicken wire cage, and a wooden henhouse with a nice ladder. There are a few chicken necessities in the coop. And now it has two lovely decorative plant baskets, with an array of colorful leafy and viney plants. There are three ceramic plaques on the exterior wall, with a chicken image and the names of the hens: Willow, Sequoia and Cypress! The support beam of the coop also has a plaque showing several hens and roosters. The hens themselves are resting in the dark shade. A close up of the henhouse, with the three name plaques, and one hanging foliage basket. This is classy housing for what probably are well-loved pets.

#photography #seattlewashington #seattlesummer #ourneighborhood #chickenhouse

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

Volare, oh, oh
Cantare, oh, oh, oh, oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassù
“Volare” by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci

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Volare, oh, oh
Cantare, oh, oh, oh, oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassù
“Volare” by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci

A sweep of clusters of reddish orange rosehips amid lush blue green leaves leads up to a morning blue sky. I have never seen the redleaf rose with red leaves except in fall! I have seen photos of a few with some purplish leaves, but they are reliably blue-green, which is what glauca means, btw

#photography #bloomscrolling #seattlewashington #seattlesummer #ourneighborhood #rosaglauca

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
1 mese fa

At least there are some blackberries with a few juicy druplets. It looks as if at least half didn't set at all. I don't know...

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At least there are some blackberries with a few juicy druplets. It looks as if at least half didn't set at all. I don't know...

Scanty, tiny blackberries with sparse druplets, amid scruffy remains of flowers that never set, are a sad reminder of how droughty it has been in the Evergreen State. The black and red berries are set among still abundant green, palmate and dentate leaves and thorny stems. Slim pickings this year.

#photography #berries #seattlewashington #seattlesummer #droughts

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
2 mesi fa

The high today was supposed to be about the same as yesterday. It's 10°F warmer (89! Too hot for us!) . Forecasts have gone to blazes. I stepped out t

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The high today was supposed to be about the same as yesterday. It's 10°F warmer (89! Too hot for us!) . Forecasts have gone to blazes. I stepped out to walk the dog at 9 and thought "oh no, it's going to be hot." Monty enjoyed cooling off in the bath.

A small gray shih tzu lies wrapped up in a pale blue towel after his bath. All you can see is what looks like a gray muppet wrapped in a soft taco shell.

#photography #seattlewashington #seattlesummer

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
2 mesi fa

I didn't think to photograph the netting over the sidewalk meant to catch apples rather than have them splat on the ground! BTW, most lawn areas in Se

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I didn't think to photograph the netting over the sidewalk meant to catch apples rather than have them splat on the ground! BTW, most lawn areas in Seattle look like this now, except for people who love green lawns

I did check the apples and they weren't too wormy, but quite small. A small cardboard hand-printed sign by the sidewalk says FREE APPLES. Nearby, on a dry, tattered grass street border, a cardboard box has a few yellow and red apples waiting for someone... A slight mystery? Monty, a small gray shih tzu, checks out a stick with a small apple near by. Off to the left, an empty crumpled paper Costco bag rests on the dry, tattered grass sidewalk strip. There's a handwitten sign, asking "Caution! don't hurt the inoccient apples! 😊" Does this mean don't use the stick to hit the apples? I resume our walk bemused. Monty fails to enlighten me.

#photography #seattlewashington #seattlesummer #ourneighborhood #freeapples

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Carolannie
@carolannie@c.im
2 mesi fa

Long hot summer... a walk in a droughty woods, with smoke filling the air; dried out rosehips: they're all that way now; curled up brown crispy maple

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Long hot summer... a walk in a droughty woods, with smoke filling the air; dried out rosehips: they're all that way now; curled up brown crispy maple leaves on boulder piles.

A small grassy clearing in a wooded trail is full of sere grasses and dry crispy leaves. The air is full of smoke. The trees are green, but they are dropping leaves on the trail. The sky is glaring white. It's early in the day but already hot. A cluster of bright red rosehips grows amid still - green leaves. Sadly, the hips are dry and leathery. Most of the berries around here are dry and often hard. I wonder how the birds will fare, because although most overwintering berries do get raisiny, they usually are soft, not dry nubbins like this year. Scattered dry crisp leaves on a stack of rough hewn gray granitic boulders. The leaves may look autumnal, but they are brown rather than yellow. They are crispy and friable, not flexible. It's depressing. And yes, that's smoke in the air.

#photography #seattlewashington #seattlesummer #seattleparks #droughts

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