O Little Town of Everett

Mangers are not to be had for love or money in Everett, Washington, so Mary and Joe make do with a vacant used-car pavilion. Kris Kringle augments the three kings.

Happy Valentines from King County

'Tis the season for warm emotions and kindly gestures, except perhaps in dour Washington State.


Posted in the driveway of our neighbor.




Two blocks from Microsoft Headquarters.




A token of downright neighborliness.

Visitors from the Ravine

Since we're situated on a greenbelt, we have lots of birds... flickers, crows, chickadees, eagles (well at a distance), starlings, robins, sparrows, towhees, swallows, etc. But also four- and six-legged interlopers. Here's a fair sampling, most of whom survived our three Felis domestica.


Moles



June bugs



Mice



Luna moths



Shrews



Salamanders



Mammoth gastropods

Great White Hunter

Home is the hunter from the hill:
Fast in the boundless snare
All flesh lies taken at his will
And every fowl of air.
- Housman

So, we live just down the road from the Cascade foothills, whch are teeming with wildlife.


That's a manly collection of antlers, but I want to know the story of how he bagged those humongous frittilaries.

Darkness at the Edge of the Deck