Elementary school sign in the park along the stream bed: the kids wrote up a nice set of signs with various insights about local ecology. This is the first one of the series. Spelling and wording totally their own
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Spring green and beautiful decay
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Twice as pink: salmonberry flowers (Rubus spectabilis) in the Ravenna Creek ravine. They vary in color from white to magenta pink, catching the eye fluttering among the newly open leaves.
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A pretty mosaic by the playground in Ravenna Park, and some evening sun drama in our garden making the flowering currant glow.
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Roots! Clinging desperately to the side of the hill! Or casually exploring the environs.
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Flowering plums: a huge flowering plum overshadows the neighborhood houses, and a tiny escapee grows between maples in Ravenna Park
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Trouvailles : osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis, a native) blossoms and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) bark
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Witches butter on decaying big leaf maple leaves
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Fluffy white fog clouds, no snow or rain 🤷
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Trouvailles
from a walk in the park, a silvery lichen and a burst of colors, from a broken madrone tree
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