Scott Richardson

@aves-specta.com

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Child of the space age, observer of things in flight, tickler of the ether, struggler with the pen and pinhole. ☮️ 👨‍👩‍👧🖖🏻73 N7ITU

The upper left corner of a forest-green, glossy print brochure is overlaid upon a post card such that the hypotenuse of a brown triangle accenting the upper left corner aligns with a bottom border of the photo on the post card below. An uncanny color match is found in that photo, which depicts ancient art from the Petrified Forest National Park. The brochure obstructs half of the text, leaving “Petrified Nation” visible. The brochure is titled “America the Beautiful.”
Screenshot of eBird life list for Colorado, which contains a single species, a house sparrow seen at Denver International Airport.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The head and neck of a crafted seahorse against a gray sky. The sculpture rises above trees in the background.
See post. An open door at the fire station reveals a fire engine with the number 77.
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.
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.
A small antenna on a lawn: two series of aluminum tubes at right angles mounted on a square boom.
Cropped screenshot from Wordle showing statistics: 1000 played, 99 win %, 90 current streak, 181 max streak.
Two pale, slender mushrooms grow together from a lawn between rows of nearly identical gravestones. The perspective is from ground level.
A chain link fence with large block letters (purple with gold outline) woven in that spell C W SOARS. Trees and partly cloudy sky form the backdrop.
Wooden steps set into a hillside, seen from the approach from above. The steps down lead through a dried-grass landscape with layers of roughly oblong terracing in the distance.
Artist’s rendition of a crow using opera glasses against a backdrop of blue sky and leafed tree branch.
Portrait of a smiling white male, mid 30s, with a butch haircut and a tooth gap, wearing a wide-plaid button-front shirt.
Video shows street musicians and a 360-degree pan of the crowd assembled on the Washington State Capitol Campus.
Video screen mounted on wall is cropped but shows words “KEXP’s program” and “Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Nearby are photographs of musicians including Kurt Cobain.
Detail from a bronze statue showing a hand, resting on a knee, holding a small notebook. Words are inscribed on the notebook are difficult to read.
Wide angle with lawn mower in lower right aimed into lawn of different lengths with scattered bamboo shoots invading. The angle features a bright orange knob, beyond which is the mower deck and a sunny, green backyard
Wide angle with lawn mower in lower right aimed into lawn of different lengths with scattered bamboo shoots invading. The angle features a bright orange knob, beyond which is the mower deck and a sunny, green backyard.
A moss-covered bench crafted of split wood positioned in a forest of leafy trees and ferns.
A sign stating “drug free zone,” with the word “free” faded and obscured, mounted on an iron fence in front of a stone-built church building containing two arched windows.
Building-top sign in the shape of the Oregon border with “Portland Oregon” in script enclosed within. A leaping stag is at the top. The sign’s support structure is visible behind.
Bright green intricate leaves and a 5-petaled pink flower against tree bark
Translucent wings in motion around a gold-brown object against a black background. It appears to have launched from a domed, tan, textured surface.
A small padlock hooked onto a wire-mesh fence was painted dark green when the whole fence was painted. Pale green leaves provide a backdrop.
Large, lighted letters: K E X P
Photograph with strong vertical components. Shot through a forest-green painted metal fence, a second, similarly colored fence/cage surrounds weather station instruments on a white post. Beyond it are trees including a western hemlock with its drooping tip, and beyond that is Seattle’s Space Needle rising into a blue sky.
Long lawn grass. Spiky shades of green. That is all.
Sidewalk strewn with fallen pink flower petals and suburban yard with bushes in bloom—white, orange, yellow.
5 bagels on a cooling rack: 3 plain, 1 sesame, 1 everything. They look tasty.
A mountain — a snow-covered mound — towers above the distant horizon. Trees in varied greens crowd the foreground landscape.
Uzo Aduba as Cornelia Cupp. A woman holds binoculars with The White House superimposed on the objective lenses.
Crowd at Washington State legislative building protesting the current administration’s policies, chanting “hands off!”
A clump of bright green leaves and bright yellow flowrrs against a muddy background.
The cream interior of an OREO cookie shows the backwards design of a cookie surface, the result of a manufacturing error—a flipped cookie.
A belted kingfisher stands on the arcing tubular arm of a streetlight.
Screenshot from CoCoRaHS app including images of gauges installed outdoors. Text: “The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network is a fun way for volunteers of all ages across the U.S. and Canada to help track rain, hail, and snow. By contributing daily precipitation observations using standardized, easy-to-use rain gauges, members become part of a nationwide network of citizen-scientists making a big impact on weather data used by the National Weather Service. It's a simple, hands-on way to learn about weather, help your community, and connect with others who love weather, too!”
The face and bill of a great blue heron are just visible in profile at the edge of a trail-end mud bank, with river water beyond.
Green moss slumps over the top of a worn, wooden fence post against a backdrop of dried tall grasses, a band of reddish shrubs, and distant evergreens.
Blue-toned graphic announcing Ham Radio Open House on World Amateur Radio Day, 18 April 2025. The ARRL logo is incorporated.
Logo for International Amateur Radio Union 100th anniversary (1925–2025) uses the IARU diamond logo overlaid on a stylized number 100.
An partly rusty iron post outdoors with a black-and-white sticker that says “I’m not sure this sticker belongs here” with a line drawing of a cat (or squirrel) holding up a bipedal figure.
A road curving into woods is blocked by an orange traffic cone and an A-frame sign declaring “emergency closure / do not enter”
5 bagels on a cooling rack
Grocery ad reading “fresh whole cooked dung…” with a price of $9.99 per pound and a Shop Deal button. Cropped to reveal a portion of a dungeness crab.
Crescent moon over mountain in morning twilight.
A riot of shapes and textures in greens, browns, and cream.
A bold graphic in black, white, and two shades of green stating “18 April” and “World Amateur Radio Day.” Concentric rings suggest emanating radio waves.
A massive snow-covered mound, best known as Tahoma or Mount Rainier, with surrounding mountains, fog-and-forest striation, and sun-tinged clouds making way to blue sky.
A textured wall, tall, narrow, and brown, catches early morning light against a blue sky. It slightly resembles a gaunt human face. Near the bottom of the frame, a sign reads “warning.” It is a climbing wall in a public park.
Photograph of a tsunami evacuation route sign above a left-arrow sign, both in blue and white, with a toy zebra “riding” the arrow sign.
A fern grows above a rectangular concavity on the forest floor, surrounded by wet, decaying leaves of various shapes.
A handheld antenna pointed at a cloudy sky. The antenna has several elements in perpendicular planes.
Coils of wire in a bit of a jumble on the floor.