A Walk On A Sunny Day In Seattle

Every now and then I post pictures I have taken on a walk.

Usually the walk has been in Paris.

Sometimes it has been on the boardwalk at Anacortes while I am waiting for a ferry.

It has never been in Seattle.

And there is a reason for that: in my neighborhood there isn’t much worth taking pictures of; but yesterday it was different.

It was really nice, sunny, no clouds and 80 degrees.

And everything that can bloom is blooming; and all the birds that live around here were out in the bushes just begging to have their pictures taken.

I took a surprising number of images.

Here are a few of them.

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The lavender in the bed in front of the house is as beautiful as it ever gets.

But there are alarmingly few bees; this guy had the whole plant to himself.

In front of the house a robin was still singing the Robin Morning Song; or he was early at singing the Robin Evening Song; my grandmother always called the song calling for rain.

The Tiger Swallow Tail had the whole bush to herself.

As I said, things are blooming.

And some of the fruit trees are beginning to look serious about contributing to the food supply of the local birds.

It looks like an olive tree but it isn’t.

I like to take pictures of dead trees in the water.

I saw this killdeer running around in the plantain flowers; the flowers make getting the bird focused difficult.

This heron really did seem to be posing.

Mount Rainier

Giverny?

I like turtles.

And, finally, this flower seemed to sum up the beauty of the day.