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Every year, I tell myself I won’t take any more “fall foliage” pictures. And every year, I take a bunch of “fall foliage” pictures. Because every year, I’m captivated by the amazing colors. And every year, the colors are a little different. Some years, yellow and gold prevail for weeks. Other years, red predominates. Or […]

Dahlias: This looks like a dwarf variety of clematis: Hollyhock: Purple flowers with squash: Some sort of a shrub or tree, with what looks like a tomato (that clearly doesn’t belong there) at the base: A lovely variety of sunflowers: I have no idea what this is, but I love the color contrast of the […]

A yellow finch perched on top of a sunflower – look “in” the evergreen tree. (Photo taken at Firestone Farms, Dayton, OR.)

One of Portland’s many bike-related signs: Not visible in this photo, someone wrote, “gravity sucks” near the biker’s head. Blossoming Lotus, an all-vegan restaurant located inside Yoga in the Pearl, 925 NW Davis St.: Landscaping by Dennis’ Seven Dees; photos taken near NW 10th Ave. and NW Glisan St.: “No fur. No paws. No service.” […]

(Taken at the Northwest Fuchsia Society‘s Greater Seattle Show at the Ballard Locks, on July 25.)

(Things that sound dirty, but aren’t.) “Near Arctic, Seed Vault Is a Fort Knox of Food” in the Feb. 29, 2008 New York Times is about the Global Vault. The vault is a high tech, high security storage facility for all kinds of seeds from collections all over the world. The seeds are being stored […]

See the ivory hellebore flower in the background of two of these photos? I’ve had that one for a couple of years, and it’s been in the same pot for at least a year. I was surprised and happy to see the magenta hellebore buds spring up this year. I’m not sure where the magenta […]