Back to the archives, from April. My birthday, in fact. I love the big pink dogwood tree in my backyard, next to the magnolia tree not quite blooming yet.

Pink dogwood blooms in April in Seattle. Rain is coming!

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My living room, in light and shadow. The snow outside is not quite melted from a few days ago.

Winter sunshine pours in a south-facing window in Seattle

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Our fancy goldfish are getting bigger. Here they are swimming in a beam of sunlight. Don’t you love those googly eyes?

Three fancy goldfish in their new 30-gallon tank. That’s Gillie in the middle.

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Love the slanting light at this time of year. When we have any.

Apples and satsuma oranges in a green depression glass fruit bowl, in my kitchen

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From last summer at the Arboretum in Seattle, a large tree with very mossy roots.

Seattle Arboretum scene of tree roots with moss in late spring

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I have a couple of thornless boysenberry plants. Their leaves are doing the fall showoff thing.

Boysenberry leaves color up for fall

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Have I mentioned that it’s been raining for quite a while? Here’s a sky from the other side of the year, in May.

Sunny springtime sky with white puffy clouds

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Another archive photo, but good in any season, a display of colorful African baskets at a farm stand in Skagit Valley, WA.

Colorful striped baskets handmade in Africa for sale in far-away Washington State.

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I’m finally ready to admit it’s fall. Visiting a friend on Camano Island, north of Seattle, the colors are beginning.

A trio of red, yellow, and green leaves in early fall

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Not too long ago we went camping at Staircase, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, and took a hike near the river there.

River scene on a sunny day

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