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 [...]
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 [...]
I stopped at American Legion Memorial Park in Everett around lunchtime this week. As I was taking in the view, I looked around and found this tree. Apparently, this tree has a history of running away or something, since on closer inspection, it appears to be chained down to the ground so it won’t run [...]
It is time for an update on the pumpkins that were growing out of the flower box in the front yard and all over the front lawn. In a previous post, I shared what they looked like growing up. The above picture is the largest of the three pumpkins, about 18 pounds worth. With Halloween [...]
The peaches have been harvested from this little grove in the community of Buena Vista Oregon. Of course, the scene was confirmed by the fact that I had just passed a hand-drawn sign up the road that said “Peaches” and a nearby family fruit stand. Photo: Taken from Buena Vista Park in Polk County Oregon [...]
Perhaps it is cheating to take a picture of something in the front yard, but this pumpkin has sort of, well, grown on us. Here, we see it after a night of rain and looking good. The story here is that the seed took root in the planter, started a vine heading toward the ground, [...]
The Butchart Gardens is, of course, one of the most photographed points in Cascadia. In fact, this photo is taken from the same place as the one in the brochures that we have all seen for many years. I remember from when I was growing up that they had highway billboards for hundreds of miles [...]
A cool Summer evening leaves you sitting in the park watching the trees move gently against the sky. As you sit and admire nature, the waxing crescent moon makes it’s appearance between the trees in the sky. The Moon looks at me, and I look back at the sky. Photo: Taken at Sacajawea Park in [...]
I’m a little green frog, swimming in the water. A little green frog doing what he ‘otter. I jumped upon a lily pad I caught a fly and I said, “I’m glad”. We have all seen lily pads (or nymphaeaceae, if you prefer) and somehow they seem to bring out the child in me. That, [...]
The Willamette Valley in Oregon is full of all sorts of new wineries and farms that simply grow wine grapes. Some of them look really orderly, just waiting for the next group of wine aficionados (or merely tourists) to come by and look at the farm and the winery. In other cases, you have a [...]
