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• Post #3623273

  Friday's bicycle ride on the Mountain Loop Highway. Started from Verlot, up to Barlow Pass, and back to Verlot. Mountains, rivers, forest, and the "Red Bridge." Passed by Big Four Mountain and the dangerous Ice Caves. The road up was not busy. It's not steep, just a relentless gradual climb, especially the last five miles. #bicycling #cycling #PNW #mountains #Cascades

• Post #3623272

  We had house guests last week (my BIL & SIL) from North Carolina. So, we did the obligatory Pike Place Market tour. Seems like every photo I see of the market looks cliche. But here goes anyway. #Seattle #PikePlaceMarket #PNW #market #photography

• Post #3623271

  Today my wife and I set out to do a little hike at Dugualla State Park on Whidbey Is, an undeveloped park and the last State Park on Whidbey that we hadn't yet visited. We park at the trailhead, the only access into the park. There is an abandoned junky SUV in the lot, already tagged by the Sheriff. A guy sleeping in his car, still sleeping there 3 hrs later. Post hike we head to Langley for lunch. My wife notices my gas filler door has been jimmied. Apparently a siphon attempt. Ugh!

• Post #3623270

  Saturday my wife came up with a great idea to take the new light rail line (the 2 Line) into downtown Redmond. So, we did. We had coffee at Victor's, walked around, then ate lunch at Palmer Bar & Grill. On the return trip, we got off at the South Bellevue Station and walked around the Mercer Slough Nature Park. We spotted a garter snake and got eaten alive by mosquitoes. Back on the train for home. Good views of downtown Seattle. #PNW #SoundTransit #nature #photography #Seattle #...

• Post #3623269

  We have a bumper crop of raspberries. This is just the start. We're eating fresh and freezing the rest. #food #raspberries #homegrown #berries #fruit #photography

• Post #3623268

  Met friends for dinner at Ivar's in Mukilteo last Sunday. We walked around after dinner. Lots of families out walking, sitting around beach fires (they have fire rings there). Chilly and breezy. Cool light house. #lighthouse #photography #PNW #Mukilteo

• Post #1846661

  At Mount St. Helens last weekend. #photography #nature #volcano #geology #PNW #outdoors #landscape #MSHI #MountStHelens

• Post #1651035

  Up near Mount St. Helens. Chocolate cake and zinfandel is a pretty good combo. The third and last Certified Volcano Naturalist field trip is tomorrow then graduation. #stilllife #wine #food #cake #books #photography #mountsthelens

• Post #1616437

  Rolling through my bird photos for the month, those that show up at our bird feeders. The Steller's Jay always a favorite. They have personality. They come for the peanuts, grab one and fly away with it to hide it. #nature #birds #photography #jay #StellersJay #PNW #birdphotography

• Post #1126467

  A pair of Dark-eyed Juncos are nesting under a balcony by our back door. As of today, the nest had two eggs. #birds #nest #nature

• Post #1088500

  I went clamming last Thursday over at Shine Tidelands State Park on the Hood Canal. I got my limit of 40 clams in 15 minutes, 40 nice Manila clams. Other creatures were revealed during clam digging like a big pile worm. Oyster shooters with vodka and cocktail sauce. Ice cream at the Port Gamble general store on the way back. I prepared the clams in some boiling chicken broth and white wine seasoned with diced shallots and garlic. #outdoors #PNW #outdoorlife #food

• Post #1085446

  I think of flower photos as somewhat cliche, including this camellia flower. But there is more behind this flower than a simple flower. It's in the plant itself. Camellias are evergreen shrubs that bloom late winter into early spring into a variety of flower colors, white to pink to red shades. They can grow into small trees. They are strong plants, almost indestructible. They are in bloom all over the Seattle area. Everyone needs a camellia in their landscape. #flowers #photography

• Post #877357

  A sure sign of spring here in the western Washington lowlands is when the pink blossoms of salmonberry open up. #salmonberry #nature #flowers #pink #PNW #photography

• Post #706439

  Play ball? Daisy #dogsofmastodon #dogs #dog #pets

• Post #459193

  Walking in downtown Edmonds a couple days ago I spotted this beautiful tuxedo tabby sitting inside a window. #caturday #cats #pets #photography #Edmonds

• Post #459192

  Well, I'm signed up for the Chilly Hilly ... again. Since showers are forecasted, I'll ride my old Roubaix and not my brand new Diverge. The Roubaix is a comfortable steed and has served me well for 6 years. If the weather is dismal, I'll do the short 21 miler. In fact, I should do the short route since we have a show in Edmonds "Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra" Taking light rail from Lynnwood to International. Not parking downtown....

• Post #459191

  I know I'm getting old when I don't recognize any of the acts that just dropped on the 2026 Zoo Tunes lineup except for Ani DiFranco. #zootunes #Seattle #zoo #WoodlandParkZoo

• Post #459190

  Chilly Hilly yesterday, the ever popular opener to bicycle season. Over a thousand cyclers rode this year, a tribute to Seattle bike culture. I rode light rail down from Lynnwood Station. Not one cycler did I see riding the train. I know parking is free downtown on Sunday , but c'mon people, it's war on cars. Anyway, I had no mojo, not even for the 22 mile short route, which I did. It started raining at mile 13, so I was glad to wrap it up early. #ChillyHilly #cycling #Seattle #b...

• Post #459189

  Last night we saw Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra at Edmonds Center for the Arts. Amazing show and musicians, two encores. Delfeayo introduced all the band members but I can't remember their names. Dinner was at Rory's. #music #jazz #Edmonds #ECA #photography

• Post #459188

  Nice ride today on a clear, crisp February day. Coffee stop at South Fork Baking Company at Waterfront Place - Port of Everett. Beautiful location. #cycling #bikes #PNW

• Post #459187

  I photographed this eastern cottontail rabbit in my next door neighbor's yard a couple days ago. These bunnies are not native to Washington State. They were introduced presumably for hunting. They eat plants, garden plants and leafy vegetables like lettuce in our vegetable garden. My two dogs will catch one occasionally. We have coyotes in the area, too. But they breed like rabbits. #nature #photography #mammals #rabbit

• Post #459186

  I was out on a long neighborhood walk with my two dogs and noticed dandelions are opening up and bees are awake. #nature #photography #bee #yellow #spring #insect #dandelion #PNW

• Post #459184

  Rodney Crowell was Thursday night and Neko Case was last night; Edmonds Center for the Arts. Really nice shows, both. I'll post Rodney Crowell photos later. Photos at the Neko Case show were strictly verboten. I'm off to Mount St. Helens to hike Ape Cave tomorrow as the second of three field trips with the Volcano Naturalist program - Mount St. Helens Institute.

• Post #447916

  Excavation at a development site in Lynnwood, WA shows stratigraphy from the recent past, geologically speaking. An over 3,000 foot thick ice sheet covered the area that melted away 12,000 years ago. The lower dark gray layer is till, a mix of clay, silt, sand, gravel, etc. that was smeared and packed under the ice sheet as it advanced. Very dense. Above that is some clay/silt sand/gravel, not as dense, may be weathered till or outwash. The contact is abrupt. #geology #Pleistocene #glacier

• Post #343038

  This gorgeous cat came to greet us as we checked-in to our little cabin at Silver Lake Resort last weekend. She was the "house cat" and came to visit as soon as we were unpacking. The resort is right off the Spirt Lake Hwy (SR 504) on Silver Lake. Silver Lake was created by an eruption of Mount St. Helens about 2,500-3,000 years ago that blocked a tributary valley to the Toutle River with mudflow and fluvial deposits. #caturday #cats #pets #photography