Rusty Ring

Over the past eight years I've posted regular reports on the welfare of local starfish as they endured (and some populations beca...

(Not real interested in coming back inside today.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Still Pleurotus ostreatus . I've posted on these before , but it never ceases to amaze me how attached this species is to the ...

(Pisaster ochraceus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

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to passing autumn the pampas grass waves goodbye, goodbye Shirao

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It's been a long time since I had a dramatic sit – the thing Zenners call kensho. This is mostly down to lifestyle constraints that...

This hand-sized specimen of Puget Sound kelp crab (Pugettia producta) quite startled me on the high tide line, far from its habitat ...

(Mt. Rainier, icon of much of the Puget Sound Basin.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Brilliant summer day in Bellingham, Washington.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

( Rhododendron macrophyllum, the Pacific rhododendron, is the state flower of Washington. In late spring it bursts out in the grey-green t...

(Dredging on the high tide.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Healthy adult P. ochreceus. I conducted my informal annual survey of a local beach a few weeks ago and found the wasting-syndrome si...

(The anenome [suspect Urticina columbiana ] is about the size of a teacup; the crab is Hemigrapsus oregonensis , the green shore crab. ...

(Belgians waiting to compete in the driving event at the Northwest Washington Fair. There are other breeds here as well, but for reaso...

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(Encountered this cedar while walking along the bay a few weeks ago. The distinctive scar is symptomatic of bark collecting by local ind...

(Found these while biking, growing by the side of the road. Interesting thing about the way Pleurotus ostreatus behaves in these parts: it...

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