Photos of My Port Townsend

This female Rufus hummingbird spent a few minutes working the penstemon flowers in our garden. She would zoom into a flower, then back up and go for the next.

The morning fog that Port Townsend has been experiencing offers some nice benefits. Here it deposits hundreds of little dew pearls on these bread poppies. For more closeup photos, visit Lisa’s Chaos’ Macro Monday.

We heard the strangest crow calls. We can recognize a few different calls but this was different, loud, insistent and demanding. One crow landed on our roof then two more alighted soon after. The two must have been babies because they followed the first with their beaks open, insisting on being fed. Those are babies [...]

Going out just before supper to pick ingredients for a stir fry is wonderful. The strawberries were just for color, though they were from our garden. I ate them right after the shot. The marigold will actually get sprinkled over the finished meal.

I know this is totally silly, but I like it. You’re seeing the shadows cast by our bird feeders.

I’ve been working this barn for a couple of years. There’s always something new.

Not quite our yard, but the empty lot next door. K seeded the lot with lots of flower seeds. Mostly the grass has taken over, but we still get some Flander’s poppies coming up.