Anacortes Area Plant Dad

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Flowering potatoes
Several police SUVS clustered at King Street Station
Radar doppler map
The tail end of a jumbo jet is affixed to a building, crane in foreground
A red and grey chunk of rock
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Swinomish Channel from a bus window
Shaggy bumblebee on a finger: source https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303658361
Bombus californicus on red clover, black face crudely circled in red
A tortoise eating
Kids climbing a platform for dirt
Dawn redwood 0.5 perspective
Fireweed
A beer garden dog park business called Paws for A Beer, designated world cup fan zone
"Trans people are fleeing red states for Seattle. The city can't keep up."
A sidewalk with gardens on both sides
Two flower spikes for Echeveria succulents that survived the winter- one orange-salmon and the other magenta-salmon
screenshot skeet: Nate O ‪@nateo.bsky.social‬ Rufo has now primed Klein to accept the first step in the radicalisation pipeline of irrational fear over 'large-scale demographic change'. Klein is now openly affirming the 'concerns' underlying the Great Replacement Theory in The New York Times. Great job, Klein! You did it! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Image reads: "But would you say someone who is, for example, hesitant about rapid, large-scale demographic change is just a 1 percent white nationalist? No, I don't believe that. Yeah, because that would be the majority of the country. Yes. I don't thinkg it is a problem, or unfair, or even wrong, to worry about large-scale, rapid demographic change.
A planting strip along a lot and house that is an absolute RIOT of species and colors along side a sidewalk
The Three Amigos of Pike Place, standing tall against the tide of darkness (the crosswalk scramble countdown timer)
The three bollards at the northwest corner of the intersection of Pike Street and 1st Avenue, protecting. A family lounges on them.
The three bollards at the northwest corner of the intersection of Pike Street and 1st Avenue, protecting. A family lounges on them.
a map and traffic count data showing location of Walerga south of Elkhorn with a count of 18,068 in 24 hours. Source: https://data.saccounty.gov/datasets/sacramentocounty::traffic-count-data/explore
plan sheet for intersection of arterial or thoroughfare with another thoroughfare road, showing typical lane widths of 11 feet for most lanes, 12 feet on innermost lanes, and 5 feet for bike lanes. the whole thing looks nauseating.
Fingers stained with palm oil, holding future dipped I'm the soup
A plate with future, wrapped in plastic, a bit of spice, and a bowl of palm-oil laden leaf and tripe and skin
The brick intersection of 1st Avenue and Pike Street. Bollards in the foreground. String lights overhead give the late night scene a warm glow and the people dancing across give the scene a sort of vibrancy that automobiles could never
Green leaves hiding a spiky ballooning green fruit
The Talgo Amtrak Cascades approaches the Mount Vernon Station platform with Skagit River brewing's brick building behind.
A purple turgid cactus wobbles upright. Along uts areoles, several small fuzzy-spiny growths are emerging
A pile of dirt, formerly lawn sod, with a desultory pile of plastic mesh to one side
Green plastic mesh for placing under suburban lawns for some unknown, unholy, and unsound reason
Four black pots with planting media in them for cacti or succulents, with pink labels.
A gravelly scree with tiny, thick, stubby baby cacti sprouting forth
The Snohomish river, flowing on the ebb tide, under the counterweight lift bridge of alhighway 528
A red-roofed barn next to a branch of the Stillaguamish River, through the window of an Amtrak horizon car framed by the truss of an iron bridge
A blue sky over a calm blue sea with green islands just off from Anacortes. View is spoiled by a pristine white pickup truck
A side vies of agapostemon subtilior female loading pollen onto her body in a purple flower
Senator Palpatine in the Galactic senate, saying I Love ... honey
Two grey VanMoof electric bicycles in slate grey, one with a child's seat, parked on grass.
A bee of hammered metal emerald color enjoyed a blanket flower of sun gold and magma red
The sea and a headland and a beach. On the beach is a large dead whale, bleached and looking like drifwood
A.tuft of unassuming grass in a nook of rock over the surging waves
A very green, very thick - almost fleshy-leaved - little baby big deervetch in bare soil
The aliens from the 1996 film "Independence Day" ate speaking through the dead body of Bert Shiner, lead extraterrestrial researcher. He is surrounded by mist. Very, very, VERY CREEPY.
A.long-spined barrel cactus with a spent flower to one side set in schist flakes and sand
A cardboard box labeled "LIVE PLANTS" from Cistus Nursery
Cactus Echinocereus viridiflorus the prairie hedgehog blooming against grey and brown rocky scree
Echinocereus viridiflorus cactus flowers in bloom, looking very yellow
A small pricey barrel type cactus covered.in large buds that are opening... yellow-green in this image, but in real life a sort of neon green
My cargo ebike parked in front of the Anacortes Public Library
My Aventon abound cargo e-bike, parked in front of the public pool.
Entry from https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417826000023/rivn-20260427.htm the Rivian Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders nominating Aiden Gomez as a director: Aiden Gomez, Age 29, Director since 2025. "Mr. Gomez has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2025. Mr. Gomez has served as Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and board member of Cohere Inc., a security-first enterprise artificial intelligence company, since September 2019. Prior to Cohere, Mr. Gomez served as a researcher at Google, working on its deep learning Google Brain project. Mr. Gomez holds a B.S. from University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oxford University. We believe Mr. Gomez’s leadership experience and his expertise in the field of artificial intelligence qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors."
The tide ebbing through Burrows Pass, swirling and murmurimg.
Social Democrat
A.coupke of reddish to reddish-green cacti (wee) among blue schist