There are people who will spend some good money to get their Christmas tree flocked. It is much nicer when nature does that task for real. Every tree looked nice, from the vast forest in the backgrounds to this lonely tree near the South Snohomish County Court Building. Even a grim, suburban scene can be [...]
One night a seagull had a dream. He dreamed he was walking through the parking lot with the Great Bird. Across the sky flashed clouds from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the snow: one belonging to him, and the other to the Great Bird. When the last scene [...]
A row of trees eating a wire. What more can I say about this? I suppose, technically, the power company cut the tree to avoid touching the wire, but who has the better story? This ravenous-looking group of trees can be found on the Cascade Highway between Sublimity and Silverton. Photo: Taken in rural Marion [...]
In the Summertime, the beach in Seaside is teeming with activity. Kids of all ages are playing on the swing-set, and gathering around the volleyball nets that are usually around this area. Yet, on a lonely Winter day, the surf continues to come in, the wind shapes the beach-grass into a new hairdo, and the [...]
One of the best things about most of the cities in the Cascadia region is that no matter how big a city you are in, it is never too far from a quiet place among the trees. In this case, the US Bank Tower is clearly visible from between the big trees lining the edges [...]
Or, they’re nice deer, dear. Or, well, whatever….. In any case, I found this herd of black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus) calmly grazing and prancing and performing the other duties of a deer in a field near Wilsonville. There were actually about a dozen of them, and they were, among other things, amusing the residents of [...]
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Just take a look out from between the trees up on Terwilliger Blvd. There’s the Hawthorne Bridge and the Morrison Bridge out there, and the Convention Center in the background. But not much else is visible on a quiet Christmas afternoon looking out over the Willamette River. Photo: Taken from Terwilliger Blvd in Portland on [...]
The tide was extra high this night, and the storm was brewing over the city of Edmonds. Despite it all, the ferries keep running to get everyone safely to their homes. The sun is just setting, as if you could see it through all of those layers of clouds. The Washington State Ferries M/V Puyallup [...]
So, we were driving around just before Thanksgiving looking for a store in an unfamiliar part of town. We ended up in a park, and it turned out that a crew was covering the park’s trees and fixtures with Christmas lights. The job was not complete when we got there, and sadly, they turned them [...]
