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The overpass pedestrian bridge from Woodland Park to the back side of the zoo.

A moss-covered banister leads to a narrow lamppost on a mossy concrete pedestal. Beyond is green foliage and a bush with red berries in the opposite corner of the bridge.

@GPJohnston I hadn't been to the museum there in such a long time. Its well worth the visit.

An exhibit by Anila Quayyum Agha called "Geometry of Light" at the Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park The piece below titled "A Beautiful Despair (Blue) 2021" takes up an entire room and floods it with colors and patterns. An excellent rainy day activity choice today.

A black metal cube covered in transparent blue with an intricate cutout pattern through which bright light shines. The walls show similar patterns in red while the ceiling and floor reflects the patten in off-white. There is a group of children in near darkness sitting in front of the cube, intently drawing what they see on pieces of paper. The lights give the impression that the children have masks.

Michael Emerman boosted:

Stanley Plotkin's contribution to vaccinology has been so significant that the field's textbook, now in its eighth edition, carries his name. But as vaccines increasingly come under attack, Plotkin, now 93, fears he knows what's to come: many children will die from preventative diseases.

"All I can say is that I'm beginning to regret having lived so long — because we're going downhill," he says. He worries that people have become more susceptible to anti-vaccine misinformation because they have not experienced the misery that childhood diseases once caused — and that things will not get better until outbreaks cause anguish once again.

https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/stanley-plotkin-profile-godfather-of-vaccines-worried/

#Vaccines #Virology #Science #HHS #RFKJr #Trump #GOP #Nature #Measles #COVID #AvianFlu #Rubella #Meningitis

@tsupasat I think they are younger than that. The lake was lowered to develop the park in 1911, so 125 is the maximum age. I don't know when the trees were planted, but probably later than that.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
A trio of Giant Sequoias near the walking path around Greenlake in Seattle.

The trunks of three trees with deeply-grooved bark in a bed of needles in early morning light.

#SilentSunday

A traffic underpass in the pre-dawn morning. There is a brightly colored mural on the wall on on pedestrian side illuminated by the green traffic lights at the end of the tunnel and yellow lights on the traffic side of the tunnel.

#Seattle #bird #heron

The Great Blue Herons have returned to their nesting colony above the Ballard Locks (on the Magnolia side). Probably over 30 nests, nearly all occupied by one or two herons.

A pair of herons sitting in a large nest of thick twigs. Other nests are located on adjacent branches and in other trees. Feb 25, 2026.

@brownsbay I was registered, but bailed because of the weather. I've done the Chilly Hilly >20 times, but the cold rain gets less fun as I get older.

@eugeneparnell I was there earlier in the week. This one was my favorite as well.

#SilentSunday #Seattle

A dawn scene at a placid urban lake showing lights of houses and streetlights reflecting on calm dark blue water. In the middle of the lake a duck is just taking off. Greenlake walking path on Feb 21, 2025.

#MeerMittwoch #Seattle
Ferry boats and cargo ships in Elliot Bay seen through a window high up in the Columbia Tower. West Seattle is covered by a layer of fog that extends outward into the water to the Olympic Mountains.

An aerial shot of a green and white ferry boat heading to a dock and a red and black cargo ship heading in a different direction. There are other ferry boats further in the distance. A peninsula of land is covered by a low fog that extends to the horizon to snow-covered mountains.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #hiking #PNW
The snag of an old growth cedar that has seen a few things.

A very large tree trunk that is broken open about 12 feet off the ground in jagged edges. There are burn marks on parts of the inside, and multiple younger trees are growing along the sides, extending their roots around the base. Bright sunlight shines on each side of the trunk.

@MiguelGuerreiro 👋

@GPJohnston There was lots more snow in early January when I took this picture

Snow covered mountains in the background beyond a cliff of brown grass and low trees. Discovery Park, January 5, 2025

#SilentSunday

A white mantlepiece in diffuse early morning light through gaps in curtains with 4 Balinese masks affixed above a photo of a pregnant woman in a checkered outfit. On each side are two candelabra figurines that cast shadows that seem to be dancing.

@cbielstein Lake 22 off the Mountain Loop Highway. Its a very popular hike, but yesterday was not crowded.

#hiking #PNW
Hiked through a verdant old-growth forest to a (mostly) frozen alpine lake yesterday on a day when it seemed like most of Seattle was downtown at the Seahawks parade.

Two small waterfalls in a fast-moving stream in a dark, lushly green, forest.

An ice-covered lake in a steep basin. There is an avalanche fall at the far side of the lake. The light is dark because the sun has just fallen behind the top ridge (it was not as cold as it looks though). Lake 22 off the Mountain Loop Highway

Michael Emerman boosted:

Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText

A human in a blue jacket stands at the base of a massive root wad of a fallen spruce tree, its spread of the root wad easily three times as high as he is tall. The trunk of the dead tree is 6-8 feet in diameter above the swell. Behind, the surf rolls in white under a blue sky, and in the background is a double-humped island with many trees on top.

The sky over Seattle looking east from Phinney Ridge this morning; just for a brief moment before the dark clouds took over.

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