Rusty Ring

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(Emblem and patron of my father 's people, as any who know us will understand, this well-armed weed flowers in surpassing beauty on th...

(This 20-odd year apple met its end last week, a victim of its own success. In the late 20th century, varieties such as these, bearing he...

So it's July again, when Internet readership drops off sharply and strange things happen on this blog while no-one's looking....

(As I recently pointed out , at high summer you can often raise bread dough outdoors in the shade. An 80 to 95-degree day ought to do it...

(At 287 feet, the vault over the Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia is the highest free-standing masonry dome in North Americ...

even one-penny fireworks... ooo! ahh! Issa (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)

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(This guy came by one hot afternoon last July and spent the evening in the backyard.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Stopped for a rest on a long bike ride the other day and noticed the picnic table pretty much told the whole story. Helmet, gloves, grano...

(Every summer I issue myself a new teeshirt . Here's this year's pick.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Welcome, honoured sangha, to your annual festival of potential rock group names here on the Ring. This makes an eleventh year of this...

(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 .

(24 June 2024, 0454 GMT.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Rubus armeniacus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(How hot has it been here? So hot that rabbits are "splooting" [hunkering down on cooler bare ground in plain sight...

(Each summer I gift myself a new teeshirt . This is last year's; I forgot to upload a photo of it then.) Appearing also on My Corner...

(This is Pseudacris regilla again . He's appeared here in the past, but this one is about the size of my thumbnail, part of a cr...