A mating pair of Pileated Woodpeckers feasting in unison on peanut suet this morning in our backyard. Male on the left, female on the right. Our first day below freezing this winter with a touch of snow last night! 🪶❄️ iPhone video quality… #Birds #Woodpeckers #PNW #WAWX #Saturday

Getting ready to immerse myself in the Peanuts/Vince Guaraldi Trio Christmas spirit on this dark and stormy Seattle afternoon. No sign of winter here! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #CharlieBrown #Music #PNW

Viewing the sunrise at 7:30 this morning aboard the ferry arriving the Kingston ferry terminal after crossing Puget Sound to spend the day with dad on Bainbridge Island. #BlueskyArtShow #Sky #PNW #WAWX #PugetSound #Saturday

Yellowjackets (Showtime) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision This Bald-face hornet nest didn’t stand a chance with our ongoing 1.70” rain since late yesterday. Bald-faced hornets are not true hornets. They're in the wasp family – a black and white yellow jacket. 🐝 #Bees #PNW #Woodinville

Parks and Recreation. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision Taking a leisurely sunny Sunday stroll yesterday on a picture perfect day at Lake Boren near Newcastle, WA. The air was warm (63 degrees!) with frogs serenading us from around the lake. #WAWX #OnGoldenPond #Reflections #PNW

The sights and sound of November in the PNW, looking out a bedroom window facing our front yard. Yellow tree leaves = Persian ironwood. Red/orange tree leaves = Red Sunset & Autumn Flame maples. #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #PNW #November #Seattle #RakingLeaves #WaitingForThePowerToGoOutAgain

😂 An oldie but goodie. #Halloween #Pumpkins

@chantellc.bsky.social & @suzette.bsky.social, Thank you deerly for the reposts! 😉 🦌

This afternoon a very tame female Black-tailed deer was back munching our Otto Luyken Laurel bushes by our driveway. She has visited this same spot the past few days. I’m 15’ away, she knows where I am. Very docile meandering around the front yard. 🦌 #PNW #Calm #Deer #Mammals #TimeCleanse

Always checking the lawn before mowing, I again almost stepped on an adult Northern red-legged frog hiding in the tall grass. He was camera shy and quickly scampered into the bushes. 🐸 #SaturdayOrange #PNW #Frogs #Amphibians #LookBeforeYouMow

A Common Teasel flower head backlit by the sun. Found growing in a roadside ditch yesterday. Common Teasel is considered a noxious weed in Washington State, but also a great seed source for birds. #TextureTuesday #Plants #PNW #DriedFlowers

Thank you for the reposts! 👋 @jonjust.bsky.social 🧡 @soletraveler.bsky.social 🧡 @suzette.bsky.social 🧡 @breeze420.bsky.social 🧡 @immachocoholic.bsky.social 🧡 @alinagrafik.bsky.social 🧡 @pelzerb.bsky.social 🧡 @wa-fire-watch.bsky.social 🧡

Human vs. Giant House Spider - Eratigena duellica, with swearing! 😂 🕷️ #Spiders #PNW #Who'sTheBoss #SpeedDemon

A young male Pileated Woodpecker enjoying lunch yesterday, then chasing off a female Hairy Woodpecker from his suet source. This routine occurs daily with assorted Pileated and other Woodpeckers. 🪶 Stuck my iPhone out the window for the video. #WoodpeckerWednesday #PNW #Backyard #Birds

Early morning greetings from the backyard. A Pacific tree frog maintaining its cool on the inside rim of a bird fountain; and a Garter Snake warming in a little bit of morning sun. 🐸 🐍 #Frogs #Snakes #PNW #GoodMorning

Sunday morning sunrise over Seattle, view is from dad’s patio on Bainbridge Island. Another hot day with temperatures away from Puget Sound around 90 degrees. iPhone picture. #SkySunday #Stunday #PugetSound #Seattle #PNW #WAWX #GoodMorning

Viewed from dad’s patio on Bainbridge Island, the 1:00 Saturday afternoon Seattle skyline. Some monsoonal moisture cirrus clouds painting the sky this warm afternoon. iPhone picture. #BlueSkyArtShow #SkyLine #Seattle #PNW #PugetSound #WAWX

❄️ Snowman Hat ❄️ My first snowman (thanks mom & dad) and my first time touching snow. The beginning of my lifelong occupation with all things Yeti. ☃️ #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHat #PNW #Joy #Snow

As I was mowing our backyard grass yesterday afternoon, this 9” Red-tailed Hawk wing or tail feather was found in the middle of our lawn. A rush of emotions when I picked up this feather, almost like empowerment. 🪶 #FeatheredFriday #Birds #Hawks #PNW #Backyards

EEK! Homer and Marge Simpson shriEking during a Treehouse of Horrors Halloween special. Original Simpson’s production drawing hanging on our office wall. Sorry for the reflections! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEasyE #AnimationArt #BlackandWhite #TheSimpsons

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDrivetime Dad at his favorite rest stop. Don’t be deceived, dad can really scoot using his ‘Bad Motor Scooter’ with ‘big fat tires and everything.’ "Road Runner" Bo Diddley: I'm a road runner honey, Beep! Beep! I'm a road runner honey, And you can't keep up with me.

You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and Defending Your Life (1991)

I voted in our primary election today. Filling in that small oval is powerful satisfaction! 🗳️ My vote today will help keep our local school district religious zealot free. Local/State elections are just as, if not more, important as the federal elections. #CivicDuty #VoteThemOut #YourVoteCounts

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCommunucation

Close to dad’s house on Bainbridge Island, this Black-tailed deer buck was leisurely munching whatever it could find along the roadside this past weekend. 🦌 #PNW #Deer #Nature #EatingMachine #Browsing #LunchTime

Who needs a dial with numbers when all you had to do is click the receiver handle and Ernestine the Telephone Operator would greet you and complete your call. 📞 #Alphabetchallenge #WeekCforCommunication #LilyTomlin #Brass

Thank you for the re-posts 🔽 @wa-fire-watch.bsky.social @soletraveler.bsky.social @jonjust.bsky.social @trigonalclass.bsky.social @veronicatrue.bsky.social Why do pirates like to swim? They love cannonballs! 🏴‍☠️

(2 of 2) Hot on the tail of the Northern red-legged frog was a Garter snake a couple feet behind. The snake lost sight of the frog in our tall grass. The snake then raised its head for a few minutes waiting for the frog to move. He didn’t. The snake finally gave up and moved on. 🐍 #Snakes #PNW

(1 of 2) This afternoon a full size Northern red-legged frog bolted out of the same flower bed I found the green snail in this morning. He hopped furiously through the grass and came to a stop at the lawn edge. He let me get close before I put him back into the same flower bed. 🐸 #Frogs #PNW

A garden snail resting on a rock keeping me company as I’m watering plants this morning. #MolluskMonday #Gastropod #PNW #Green

The winds of change for a one day cool down have commenced, but I don’t think they are 167 MPH strong. 🤣 #WAWX #Wind #PNW #SomebodyCheckThatAnemometer

A rare sighting these days on Puget Sound – a cargo ship with actual containers making its way to the Port of Tacoma. iPhone picture from #BainbridgeIsland. #PugetSound #Seattle #Boats #WePayTheTariffs #SkySunday #WhereDidTheCloudsGo #Summer

On the way to see dad, the early Sunday morning view aboard the Walla Walla ferry crossing Puget Sound to Kitsap county. #SkySunday #CirrocumulusClouds #PNW #PugetSound #WAWX #MtRainier

@chantellc.bsky.social @rangedan.bsky.social Thank you for the reposts. 🐸

I’m lucky to have this delicate looking Red Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium) in our yard. Birds devour the berries in a hurry, but I grabbed a few for myself today. Wow, they are fermenting quickly in the heat! Tart, then strong spiked Hawaiian Punch flavor. 🌿 #Plants #PNW #TextureTuesday

The sounds of summer this morning emanating from a retention pond not far from our house. 🐸 #Frogs #PNW #Nature #Summer #NewRingtone

It’s a beeutiful day to be outdoors enjoying the sunshine in the Pacific Northwest. 🐝 #Bees #Nature #Plants #Poppies #SundayYellow #SongSparrow

I almost stepped on this Common Emerald Moth this morning while putting out our bird feeders. I placed him on a nearby quince plant with no objection from the moth. My first encounter of an Emerald Moth in the Seattle area! 🦋 iPhone picture. #Insects #Nature #Moths #PNW #WatchYourStep #LookDown

3 velvety blue 3” Steller’s Jay feathers found in our backyard this week. The parents were introducing a young one to our upside down suet feeder. 🪶 #Birds #Jays #Nature #PNW #BackYardBirds #FeatheredFriday

After taking a quick bath in a small shallow birdbath yesterday, I watched a male Pileated Woodpecker shed this 8” feather while preening. Then I found two 3” Hairy Woodpecker feathers laying close to that Pileated feather! 😀 🪶 #FeatheredFriday #Birds #Nature #PNW #BackyardBirds #Woodpeckers

Time for my daily multivitamins. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYellow #Vitamins #Chocolate #HealthyFoods

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Damn, house fire in our neighborhood!

@thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social I got a new toy to play with! Nowhere near a professional model, but good enough to learn on. What I’ve learned is my yard is a trash dump, no treasures. I’m sure my neighbors are loving the beep-beep-BEEEEP noises as I’m practicing in the backyard. 🔎 #TreasureHunt

Last night I was serenaded by our occasional backyard visitor the Barred owl. How gracious the owl, a 6” gift was left for my feather collection. 🪶🦉 #Nature #Owls #PNW #Woodinville

A compact, glowing magenta rhododendron blossom enjoying the sunny start of the holiday weekend in our side yard. A vivid contrast to the olive drab leaf color and brightens the area under red maple trees. #BloomScrolling #PNW #Seattle #Woodinville #Plants #BackYard #SmellandFeeltheDirt

The lush rainforest here in the PNW today. #WAWX #MyBackYard #MustBeTheWeekend #Woodinville #Rain #Calm #PuzzleDay

Crushed Coke can wristwatch made in Switzerland by the ReWatch watch company. Originally gifted to spouse by Coca-Cola and Cargill; commandeered years ago by my wrist. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime #WhatTimeIsIt #WhyAmIThirsty #Coke

#BlueskyArtShow #Lines This morning inside the ferry Spokane heading to Bainbridge Island to be with dad. I’m on the top of the upper right-side ramp. #Saturday #PugetSound #Ferry #BainbridgeIsland #PNW

A couple more deciduous azaleas have started to bloom! 🌸 The first 2 pictures: ‘Irene Koster.’ Irene’s delicate flowers are little angels offering a hug. The third picture: 'Cannon's Double.' Subtle fragrance attracts bees, butterflies, and my nose. #BloomScrolling #Nature #Garden #Azaleas #PNW