Garden galaxies

Spent Mother's Day at the rhododendron species botanical garden in Federal Way WA. Seeing these stelliform flowers, my associative monkey-mind kicked in.

Milky Way photo by Joseph Cowdell

Pleiades Star Cluster photo by Tony Hallas/Science Faction/Corbis

The following one, in case you're wondering, is a debris-filled spiderweb.

Hubble photo via Indian Express

Celine and Suboxone

Came upon this provocative Portland still life with a dismembered copy of Celine's Castle to Castle and a label from some medicine for opioid addiction.

Shades of Gray at the Huntington

Year end, Skagit Valley

Out front

Old home

The loft

Pondweed and gingko

Greenhouse

"Living is easy with eyes closed"

Self portrait with pages

Flood I

Flood II

Afloat

Gingko on pondweed

Leaf-fall

Last post of October, kicking off Photovember, where I will attempt to post at least one photo a day for a month.

Renton, WA

Unseasonable

Uncommonly blizzardish this week, and I ventured out for a neighborhood recon.


Steps



Vortex




Swerve




The fence

Constellation of Leaves

The exploded view

"Live in a perpetual great astonishment."
- Roethke


A leaf falls: countless
attitudes between its branch
and earth. Earth is changed
wholly in this transaction.
I feed on this, I live.