Scott Richardson

Sorry not to have those transatlantic passes anymore

Facing the legislative building in Olympia, Washington, where a large crowd of people has gathered. At the base of the eight columns are giant, colorful handmade letters spelling RESIST.

I am not doing enough but I did this

#BlueskyArtShow #vertical #nokings #olympia @olyindivisible.bsky.social

Five green leaves of a Himalayan blackberry vine. On one is a Pacific chorus frog, also green, covering only about one-eighth of one leaf.

Gosh those things are small

Beans, franks, and brown bread. I’ll take the raisins.

Photographic still life with a molded Charlie Brown atop a wooden block, a baseball atop an antique bottle, a jade plant, and a transistor radio antenna. The baseball is branded Seattle Mariners.

A Micron pen, closed, rests on a Moleskine journal, green and also closed, on a blue-gray cushion. They are crossed by angular shadows from (unseen) blinds letting through much sun.

Set them down and was struck by the pattern

Congrats. Was it a hunch one would be there or your posture when seeing it?

Charlatan = faker, quack

“miserable, hate-filled wretch”

I like how my Senator characterizes people honestly and openly.

And how she keeps directing the conversation toward better alternatives than the current administration’s operating mode.

Our KitchenAid has performed well and is “good as new” after a decade or more

Semi rectangular stone obelisk with a sloping top edge interrupted by a circle depicting a taegeuk. Letters spelling “we are one” are stacked on the left side. Shadows of tree leaves and the torso of a human figure are cast on the yellow-toned, sun-warmed gray surface.

Shadow selfie at Hanwoori Garden, which opened in Federal Way, Washington, in June 2025. The space is impeccably designed, expertly crafted, and warmly inviting. It is the first traditional Korean garden in the state. Find it adjacent to Panther Lake.

Startling conclusion
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Nice seats

A dragonfly clings to a sun-faded fence board. It has black bands on clear wings and a pale chalk-blue abdomen. The top quarter of the image reveals glossy green leaves behind the board, some tinged yellow.

Aptly named dragonfly: common whitetail

#odonata

Beargrass Creek, your home away from home!

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Interesting shapes 13: Valley.
Wordle 1500

The head and neck of a crafted seahorse against a gray sky. The sculpture rises above trees in the background.

“SeaHorse” by Ben Dye, constructed from repurposed above ground oil tanks, installed in Covington, Washington in 2014 (2009).

Yep, plus great crested flycatchers can give a good whoop and blue jay would be a contender… but I thought you were just throwing a Jeopardy answer out there for guesses

What are Loudest birds at an eastern riverside park?

See post. An open door at the fire station reveals a fire engine with the number 77.

“Unit 77”

King Street Station, Lumen Field, and a touch of T-Mobile Park in the distance beyond a Seattle Fire station.

Heard 4 stations on TEVEL2-3 but 5W to an Arrow was insufficient for me to break the squelch on a 35° pass 🙁

Detail from suchitra mattai piece at Seattle Asian Art Museum. Vintage saris woven and ornamented. Brightly colored cool and hot. Pappy’s house (detail), 2024, Suchitra Mattai, Guyana, b. 1973, worn saris, aluminum, beaded trim, tinsel, 216 x 110.96 x 81.38 in. Photo: Scott Richardson, 2025.

It is Suchitra Mattai whose show is nearly done. Hurry. Really. Get to SAAM.

I’ve mixed up a deadline. This will remain on display until next March.

An abstract art piece dominates the frame with shades of blue, pink, and yellow shifting to black, red, and purple from left to right. At the far end, a person stands and looks at the art.

Ai Weiwei’s “Water Lilies,” on view for 1 more day at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, is almost 50 feet long and contains 650,000 toy bricks.

Tinkered with the @11ty.dev import feature along with both blogger and bluesky this morning. Learned a little but successes fell short.

A small antenna on a lawn: two series of aluminum tubes at right angles mounted on a square boom.

Setting down the Arrow after a couple of passes. CQd through MO-122 but no CW takers. Worked 3 on AO-91.
#hamradio

Cropped screenshot from Wordle showing statistics: 1000 played, 99 win %, 90 current streak, 181 max streak.

Wordle milestone reached at number 1480. Played about 150 games before this set, but the stats mysteriously disappeared. My average hovers around 3.9.

Thanks for the fun, @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk

12th in a series 🥱

Fun shapes returns. I blew through 19 letters on this one. It was frightening.
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Wordle 1,475

Two pale, slender mushrooms grow together from a lawn between rows of nearly identical gravestones. The perspective is from ground level.

Saprophytic