While I was in the Seattle Art Museum the other day I took this photo of an empty room I’d never seen. I hope that was OK. Pressed for time, I didn’t get to read anything about it. A recreation of a European room, perhaps from the Renaissance? What a lovely feeling it gave me.

Old room in the Seattle Art Museum

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An exciting skyscape for you on this first morning of 2014. May this be the very best year of your life so far! Thank you to all the loyal and appreciative readers of this blog. Your unfailingly positive and insightful comments have been one of the true blessings in my life. Yay, blogging!

Dawn breaks over Mt. Rainier in Washington State

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Walking with friends in Seattle’s Volunteer Park yesterday:

Winter sun begins to set over roadway in Volunteer Park in Seattle

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These birds were migrating in late August off the coast of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest. You can see the surfers in wetsuits in the water, too. It went on like this for the longest time. Uncountable number of birds.

Birds in migration off the coast of Seaside, Oregon in late August

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I was in Seattle and saw this view of the Space Needle, and the Experience Music Project on the lower left. Glorious!

Seattle’s iconic Space Needle against the skyline on a cold, sunny day

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Even fake flowers can look good when the light is nice. These white anthurium flowers were a pretty holiday display at the Normandy Park Cove Holiday Bazaar yesterday.

Fake white anthurium flowers in late afternoon winter light

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We got a new hummingbird feeder and it’s sort of a half-tube shape (the back of it is flat against the glass) that attaches to the window with a suction cup. The window faces south, so now winter sun comes in on a sunny day. Look what was on the carpet yesterday!

Another benefit is that the warmth of the house through the windowglass is keeping the sugar water melted, even in this awful arctic weather we’ve been having.

Rainbow from convex hummingbird feeder

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I was looking for something red to post and found this image from a county fair this summer. Totally straight out of the camera and just for you:

A red horse blanket, under a beautiful saddle and on a beautiful horse

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Browsing through some photo folders I saw this image from a July day on Lake Burien. Straight out of the camera!

Sunshine on lakeside houses reflect on the waters of Lake Burien, WA

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A friend gave me a rooted cutting of this tropical Angels Trumpet plant a year and a half ago and how it’s almost as tall as I am. And this summer it bloomed! At night the whole house has its sweet perfume wafting through it.

Golden yellow brugmansia or Angels Trumpet blooms in a southern window in late fall

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