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Cooley’s hedge nettle (Stachys cooleyae) likes to grow along stream beds and in marshy spots. It blooms from June to August. Sighted this August in Cowen Park, it flowers sparsely, so you never get a cloud of magenta flowers. #Photography#NativePlants#NativePlantsOfThePNW#SeattleWashington 📷🌿

Cooley’s hedge nettle has tubular magenta flowers with lips covered with and magenta mottling. The entire plant is tall and fuzzy, and often mistaken for nettles. It doesn’t sting! The leaves are oval and dentate. This plant was alone amid a stand of horsetail and other wild plants, and has four flowers at the top of its stem, one facing forward, two sideways and one turned away.
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Cat eyes for Caturday #Photography#SeattleWashington#Caturday#CatsOfBluesky 🐈‍⬛📷

A triptych of Guy Noir’s eyes with color stripes, from top to bottom: red background with the black cat’s eye area showing black and his eyes glowing red; then green with his eyes glowing yellow; finally blue with his eyes glowing blue.
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One of the most common older street trees in our neighborhood is the horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum). The fruit is a green spiky capsule with one or two nuts. These have a rich reddish brown colored shell, and are toxic. #Photography#SeattleWashington#MapleLeafNeighborhood 📷

A horse chestnut, out of its spiky capsule, glows a rich red brown, It is oval with a large whitish attachment scar. The capsule is split into two pieces, one showing the green exterior and the other the white interior with some brown fiber. The spikes are flexible and not thorn-like.
A horse chestnut tree branch is full of light green spiky fruit. The darker palmate leaves droop downward.
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Really old false turkey tails greening up with algae. It has been a dry summer here, and so far, this autumn is dry. Mushrooms pop up given half a chance, but Seattle is poorly served this year. #Photography#SeattleWashington#Mushrooms#Fungi 📷🍄

istinctive fan shape with upward curving caps. They are striped green, white, and brown, the green being algae that grow on them as they age
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Cheery early fall garden #Photography#SeattleWashington#OurHouse#OurGarden 📷🌿🏡

Bright yellow false sunflowers shine in dense green foliage. There is a hint of pink on the left hand corner with a couple of plumes of hydrangea change color from white to rose.
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There aren't very many mushrooms in the park at present, but I did spot redlead roundhead or chip cherry mushrooms (Leratiomyces ceres), growing happily in the chip mulch under the redcedars. Ravenna Park #Photography#SeattleWashington#Mushrooms#Fungi 📷🍄

Redlead roundhead or chip cherry mushrooms (Leratiomyces ceres), are growing happily in the chip mulch in the park. Several clusters of small red mushrooms are growing amid wood chips under a redcedar tree in Ravenna Park. The caps are round, a little slick looking, with white scaly spots along the outer rim. The feet (or stipes) are whitish to cream colored, and some look a bit scaly.
I pulled four mushrooms up, to show the white stipes which are somewhat scaly and somewhat fluffy looking. There are orange stains on the stipes. The youngest mushroom has creamy white gills. An older mushroom has pale gray gills with some orange staining. The last to have gills ranging from gray brown to almost chestnut brown, with some orange staining
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Rainy day tomato: it wasn’t supposed to rain, but it did. Then the fog came along to leave tiny droplets. And I have removed all the leaves to hasten the ripening. I hope. #Photography#SeattleWashington#OurHouse#OurGarden 📷🏡🍅

A green tomato full of raindrops hangs from a hair covered branch. The hairs on the branch and the sepals on the tomato are full of tiny droplets.
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The last plums, and almost last apples (one harvest to go). The apples and plums are picked by volunteers and shared with food share organizations and the P-Patch gardeners. #SeattleWashington#CommunityGardens#PicardoPPatch

Some purple Italian plums sit in a cardboard box in the community garden sharing shed.
Various heritage apples in shades of red, green and orange, sit in a cardboard box in the sharing shed
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Colchicums are some of my favorite autumn flowers. The Waterlily cultivar lives up to its name, floating above the leafy debris with its glowing lavender petals. #Photography#SeattleWashington#OurHouse#OurGarden 📷🏡

Colchicums are also called autumn crocus. This cultivar has a double row of lavender to white petals spreading out like an elegant waterlily amid the brown debris of chestnut tree leaves.
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Morning dog walk in fall: nice pink Japanese anemones floating above their leaves like butterflies; a colchicum springing up from the leaves, and finally Balor, or One-Eyed Red. #Photography#SeattleWashington#SeattleAutumn 📷🏡

Japanese anemones float their pink five petaled flowers with golden hearts above dense green leaves.
A waterlily colchicum unfurls its lavender pink petals above a brown leaf litter. A green fern frond arches over the flower.
High up on a redcedar rough lined trunk you can spot where someone used ceramic to makes eyes, a nose and a mouth. One eye has disappeared making it a one-eyed monster.
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