Look! Real blossom! Growing things!
The other day, when I said The alders are doing that feathery thing, a couple of people asked what I meant. I…
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Dolphins and snow in Puget Sound
NASA image via Wikipedia I woke up this morning to snow. Just a pretty dusting but, still: snow. Yet last week the…
Read moreIn the valley of the frost giants
I’ve had a wonderful first 36 hours of 2011. It began with two delicious bottles of Champagne: our last bottle of Krug,…
Read moreFirst green and growing things of 2011
So the kerbs are starting the year well: The chives (out of frame) are tall and skinny, supercilious and supermodel-y. The basil,…
Read more2010 in pictures: green and growing things
I got a bit obsessed with plant-based lifeforms this year: the trees in the ravine, the garden, the pot herbs on the…
Read moreSunshine, blue skies, happiness in the PNW
This is what I saw when I sat down, bleary-eyed this morning, for my tea: This, O People of the Northwest, is…
Read moreNickel Creek and the Kerbs
Not a new band name, sadly. Nope, we’re in the middle of a Pineapple Express. Under the house, the sump pump is…
Read moreEvergreens and icicles
Thanksgiving morning: a closeup of the icicle frozen in mid-pour over the rhododendron bush outside Kelley’s office. For some reason it pleased…
Read moreWhat a difference a day makes
So here’s a shot of the garden outside my office window Sunday morning. (Taken through a screened and shut double-paned window therefore…
Read moreSlate grey
This is the screen shot from my iGoogle yesterday afternoon. Clear and simple. The morning, though, was beautiful and strange: slate grey…
Read moreGratuitous tree shot
Every autumn I take photos of the sherbet-coloured leaves on the trees outside my office window. Every autumn I end up with…
Read moreUpdate: Hild, health, happiness
I’m still very tired, but that’s about what I expected at this stage. The best thing I can report is that nothing…
Read moreFarewell to the colours of summer
A melancholy, rainy day here in Seattle. But briefly this afternoon the clouds thinned to gauze and the garden blazed. I took…
Read moreHoly cloud, batbeing…
KOMOnews.com Look at the forecast. Look at the icon for my birthday: an unadorned round shining sun. I am gasping with disbelief…
Read moreOur ten-day birthday jubilee
KOMOnews.com Look at that weather forecast: some sun every day, even into October. If it turns out to be true, this will…
Read moreWet sunshine, dry mist
Here are photos from two morning this week. The first (taken by Kelley) is mist over the ravine, on what turned out…
Read moreFog and sun and Hild
Yesterday began draped in mist. I stood outside in my sweater, tea in one hand, and listened to the trees in the…
Read moreWhat are you reading?
It’s a lovely sunny day here. Perfect. Yesterday it rained. All day. Hard. Tomorrow it will be too hot. By the weekend…
Read moreTired but happy
I got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…
Read morePerbs in the mist…
…except, eh, the mist evaporated by the time I got out there with the camera. But here’s the photo anyway–the dill is…
Read moreFruit, fruit, more fruit–and c-r-e-a-m….
I spent most of yesterday eating. Nectarines, cherries, raspberries, all with lashings of thick thick thick fresh fresh fresh cream. I just…
Read moreSame sex marriage, and other linkage
The Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, has just voted unanimously for same-sex marriage. Unanimously. This makes me happy. In case you’ve forgotten, Iceland is…
Read moreRavine World
I’ve been sitting on the deck in the sun, watching, listening, comparing today’s garden and ravine sights and sounds with those of…
Read morewell, now, lookee here
the sun shone–and I can prove it
First, it rained (note wet deck). Then it shone (note wet shiny deck with genuine shadows). Blue skies. Birds singing. Green-tipped buds…
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