We have some artistic knitters in Burien, Washington. This yarn-covered bike rack (and more, not shown) is what some creative person or persons did to decorate the bike rack at the Burien Community Center recently. Stuff like this really floats my boat.

Colorful yarn-bombing of a bike rack in Burien, WA

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A walk through a lovely forest in the springtime in the Pacific Northwest, in my favorite kind of dappled sunshine…

Springtime in the woods

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At Seattle’s Volunteer Park the other day. This photo is one of my very top faves and I am calling it my weekly Top Shot.

Elm tree branch backlit by April sun in Seattle’s Volunteer Park.

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The weather has been so amazingly wet this month, breaking records in Seattle, but I want to do garden things. I started some seeds by soaking them overnight first, then put them in produce-type clamshells, the kind with holes already in them, and they sprouted in only 4 days! Here is a sunflower seedling showing its first baby leaves, not the true leaves soon to emerge. I love this image and am calling it my weekly Top Shot.

First leaves (cotyledon) of giant sunflower emerge on my windowsill

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Plants have fashions like anything else, at least garden plants do. I don’t see too many people planting old-fashioned forsythia, but I don’t know why not. It blazes in such a flame of welcome color in the early spring.

Bright yellow forsythia blooms in early spring

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Had to go to the archives for some tulips. They bloom around here (Western Washington) in April. Be sure to visit the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival at least once in your life, if you can. They really do look like this:

A rainbow of tulips stripe a field in the scenic Skagit Valley in April

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Blooming in a park, in wet and green Seattle.

Pale pink cherry blossoms bloom in springtime in Seattle

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Feeling like summer is pulling me towards it. This was my yard in September.

Late afternoon sunshine makes shadows with a wooden backyard bench

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This large peacock window over the entrance to Seattle’s beloved Volunteer Park Conservatory on Capitol Hill is the original window, and over one hundred years old. It is beautiful on sunny days and on gray and rainy ones as well.

Historic peacock window over the entry to the Volunteer Park Conservatory

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My dear cousin went to Hawaii (and got engaged there!) and has given me permission to share a few scenic photos she took there.

Turquoise water and lava rocks at the Hawaiian shore

Split leaf philodendrons in the wild, with rain-shined leaves

Rainy Hawaiian path through a mass of split leaf philodendrons

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