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Laurelhurst Community Center looks cozy in the snow! ❄️ Stay safe visiting parks and open spaces:
🌲 Avoid trees in high winds
🚲 Watch for icy trails
📱 Report downed branches: 206-684-7250 or the Find It, Fix It app
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Seattle's council is gearing up for major decisions on hydroelectric relicensing with tribal leaders and a bold plan to expand tiny-home villages, potentially adding 1,000 new beds this year.
Learn more here
#SeattleKingCounty #WA #SeattleParks #CitizenPortal #HousingInnovation #PublicSafety
A memorial wall section with tiles made by the students of a beloved teacher. The wall is about 2 feet high with a black tile frame. The children's tiles alternate with burnt umber tiles. The children's tiles are obviously elementary school renditions of local scenes, and a local person said the M was for the teacher's last name, which she did not recall. There is a colorful broken tile freize at the bottom. I can't find any information on it, but will dig further.
A colorful street painting by the Ravenna Eckstein Park, with lady bugs, flowers and trees all shaped like the petals of a large flower. They used a type of paint I've seen as directional signs on the urban trails around here, very tough, which can handle quite a bit of traffic, obviously.
A memorial wall and some street art
#Photography #SeattleWashington #RavennaNeighborhood #RavennaEcksteinParks #SeattleParks #ParkArt
An image of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) roots growing on the side of a hill. The roots are gradually being exposed by weathering, and look a bit as if they are clinging for dear life. Doug firs are notoriously shallow rooted and are the most likely trees to fall in windy rainstorms
A young Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) has a mass of surface roots casually exploring the ground, with ferns, dewberries and small plants growing on top.
Roots! Clinging desperately to the side of the hill! Or casually exploring the environs.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleSpring #RavennaPark #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #PseudotsugaMenziesii
An Armand's clematis vine growing on a fence is full of creamy white flowers. The four to six petaled blooms open to reveal pale yellow anthers. The buds are light green, and grow on sinuous red stems. The dark green, shiny oval leaves reflect some blue from the sky. This year the clematis are so full of flowers it's amazing.
Broadleaf lupine (Lupinus latifolius), growing in the park's naturalized area, is leafing out. The palmate leaves have up to 10 leaflets, covered with downy hairs. Many of the leaves in this image have a water drop at the center, trapped and misshapen by the hairs at the point where the leaves radiate. It makes them look like jewelry
An enthusiastic clematis and water drops in lupine leaves. The Armand's clematis is the first to bloom around here. And I love how water drops always sit in the middle of lupine leaves
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #SeattleParks #MapleLeafPark #BloomScrolling
Osoberry blossoms form three small white clisters along a red branch marked with white lenticels. The flowers have 5 pointed petals and a cluster of light yellow anthers. The shrubby plant is growing alongside a trail in Ravenna Park, under maples and evergreens.
The rough bark of a, Scots pine looksclike craggy canyons seen from above. The scaley shapes are colored sand, red, brown and gray, and are full of flat tops, peaks and crevasses.
Trouvailles : osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis, a native) blossoms and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) bark
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #SeattleSpring #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW
#BloomScrolling
The bright yellow, hood shaped spathe of a Lysichiton americanus rises above its still furled bright green leaves. Swamp lanterns are also commonly called skunk cabbage because the flower stinks in order to attract the flies and beetles it needs to pollinate it. These plants are in a boggy area covered with dead leaves. Soon the stream banks and marshy spots will be full of bright yellow "hoodies" succeeded by the plant's huge leaves.
The first swamp lantern, aka skunk cabbage, I've seen this season.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleSpring #CowenPark #BloomScrolling #NativePlantsOfThePNW #NativePlants #SwampLantern #SkunkCabbage
A cloudy sky in the late afternoon, framed by evergreen trees and bare deviduous trees. The clouds are fluffy and ragged, in shades of gray, blue and white, with a blue sky between some rifts. The bottom quarter of the photo is park lawn. You can see Sacajawea Elementary School off to the left. The wind is cold, and thevlawn wet and muddy
A small gray shih tzu standing in a muddy, torn up park lawn contemplates whether he will fuss about having his feet washed later or not.
Late afternnon #SacajaweaPark #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #Weather #Clouds
Forecast is mixed whatevers. A photo of Monty standing in the mud. He will suffer a footwash pretty quickly.
Witches butter (probably Dacrymyces chrysospermus) grows in several small, orange, jelly-like, ridged blobs on dark brown, leathery looking, decaying leaves. A bit of bright green moss is also in the frame, growing amid the leaves, wjich were in a huge pikevunder a tree, as if they had all fallen at once.
Witches butter on decaying big leaf maple leaves
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #FungiFriends #FungiLovers #Mushrooms #SeattleSpring
Looking across a park lawn and through trees at the fluffy white fog clouds lifting off the Puget Sound. You can tell they are from fog because of how low and large they are, as well as how fast they move relative to other clouds, even though you can't see the Sound from here.
Looking through pine trees at the fluffy white fog clouds lifting off the Puget Sound. You can tell they are from fog because of how low and large they are, as well as how fast they move relative to other clouds, even though you can't see the Sound from here.
Fluffy white fog clouds, no snow or rain 🤷
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleSpring #RavennaPark #Clouds #Weather
A very many-branched tree stump sits in a green lawn at the edge of the play area. The branches, cut off at about 1.5 meters off the ground, radiate octopus-like from the center. The wood is smoothed by many people climbing into the crooks and stems. It does appear, though, that time is finally catching up with the sturdy structure, because you can see some parts where the wood is crumbling. There is a playground off to the left. There are a couple of turtle sculptures in the background, also meant to be climbed on. The play area is quite extensive, full of well-maintained green grass and bordered by tall trees.
A retake of the convoluted many branched stump of an old redcedar, cut down and left in the Ravenna Park play area for kids to clamber on. It was a rainy day, so no kids in sight!
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #Wood #BlueskyArtShow
Clusters of small, yellow, 4 petaled flowers bloom along a branch. The flower stamens are white. The bark on the branch is smooth, colored in shades of green, brown and pink. The out of focus background is full of yellow flowers on the same tree. The fruits are edible, and usually are dark red when ripe. Birds love them as well.
An artsy take on a cornelian cherry growing among other trees. The photo is processed to look like a pointillist painting. The clusters of bright yellow flowers glow against the darker evergreens, and the branches droop artistically from the tree to the ground.
Cornelia cherries, related to dogwoods, are busily blooming, creating yellow dapples in the understory
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleSpring #CornelianCherry #BloomScrolling
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.
A bright #sunshine lights sparkles on Lake Union for the #BlueskyArtShow.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #GasworksPark #SeattleParks #LakeUnion #SeattleSkyline
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.
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
I love this little habitat area! Fun, artistic, #landscaping!
#DiscoveryPark #SeattleParks #Magnolia
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.
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 photo shows a portion of a small fallen tree trunk stripped of its bark and full of grooves bored by bark beetles. The wood is a golden brown. The curvy grooves are darkened almost to black. They look like runic writing curling around the trunk. The trunk is resting on a bed of small leafy understory plants.
Cryptic scripting in the forest
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #SeattleParks #CowenPark #BarkBeetles #, #BeautifulDecay
random pics from my many trips to the Seattle Arboretum
#nature #naturephotography #peaceful #serene #seattle #seattleparks #seattlearboretum #pnw #pnwnature
A silk tassel bush is blooming, with a cluster of long flower catkins in a light olive green hanging down from a branch, surrounded by green leaves. The catkins look as if each small frilly bell-shaped flower were growing out of the one above it. The leaves are smooth and leathery, with a wooly underside.
Silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) blooming in the park. Although it doesn't grow natively quite this far north, it thrives in our climate.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #RavennaPark #NativePlantsOfThePNW #NativePlants #NativesInTheCity #PNWFlora #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks
Lincoln Park - some hills here need stairs and the parks department tries to make them blend as much as possible when they can.
#seattleparks #lincolnpark #nature #naturewalks #naturephotography
A madrone tree has an odd trunk. The main trunk leans sharply to the right, almost parallel to the ground. The secondary trunk veers off away into a madrone thicket behind it. The tree trunks are a typical umber brown, with streaks of orange and dark brown. The leaves are at the well-branched crowns of the trunks, dark green, and glossy with rain. The scene is set on a gravelled park path with a picnic table under the trees, and shrubby under growth on either side. There is a foggy haze under the rainy sky.
A quirky madrone (Arbutus menziesii) in the park in the rain
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #Trees #NativePlantsOfThePNW #NativePlants #EastCoastKin
A low angle photo of dry wetland grasses shows both the texture and the color variation in the long grass blades. The colors vary from pale tan to orange to red. The grasses form a low wall behind which grow an array of winter bare shrubs. These are all outlined against a white hazy sky with pinkish gray low clouds.
Dry wetland grasses in unsettled weather
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #SeattleParks #MapleLeafReservoirPark #Grasses
Some nicely branched, blue green fruticose lichens spring out from a bed of moss on these two twigs. There are also some smaller green ones. A variety of foliose lichens in shades of blue gray to powdery blue clasp the twigs. These are lying on bed of brown decaying tree leaves.
Another set of twigs, looking very artsy with the tufts of blue green lichens contrasting with the leaves in various shades of brown.
Yesterday I forgot why I didn't go to the parks this past week, and saw all the fallen branches and trees covering the trails. The saws were buzzing in the background. The main trail was clear, thanks Seattle Parks!
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #Lichens
A cluster of overlapping orange-brown flat capped mushrooms is growing under a tree in the grass and dead leaves . The caps are darkened by all the rain in the last few days. There are a couple of mushrooms turned over, showing orange gills radiating from orange-brown stems. There is one small, conical young mushroom growing alongside the cluster. The caps all look very moist, shining in the sunlight. If you look closely there are raindrops on the grass blades
Thought we'd pop in after all that rain
(very water logged Armillaria spp yesterday in the park)
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #FungiFriends #FungiLovers #Mushrooms #DahlPlayfield
A split madrone trunk viewed in the pouring rain shows its peeling glory. The right and left of the fork are covered with rough dark bark at the periphery of the photo, with green moss bits providing some color. But the center of the fork is bark less, and is a golden yellow brown with patches of glowing orange yellow. Looking through the fork you can a background of brown autumn leaves. Everything is covered with a gloss of water creating bright highlights
It's pouring rain and the madrone (Arbutus menziesii) looks extra polished
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #RavennaPark #ColorScrolling #NatureAbstract #EastCoastKin
Goldenrod seed stems zigzag across the photo. Each stem is covered with clusters of seeds, the bristly pappus of each seed converging with those of neighboring seeds, making it look like bursts of fireworks of tiny cream colored stars up and down the stems.
Some goldenrod is blooming but most of it has gone to seed
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #MapleLeafNeighborhood #MapleLeafReservoirPark #BloomScrolling
A fallen branch covered with gray bark has a small colony of tan split gills (Schizophyllum commune) growing in a patch of green spiky moss. The fungus caps are mostly fan shaped and covered with fine hairs. One has been broken off to show the gill structure underneath the cap, radiating from the center.
Split gill mushrooms in the rain look like fuzzy sweaters in the wash
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleWinter #RavennaPark #Mushrooms #FungiLovers #FungiFriends
