After rain and snow the creek is running high, as seen from this view from the road at the north end of the Green. (December 2022)

Sure it is an invasive, but it is festive! (December 2022)

A snow-filled canopy... (November 2022)

More snow in the Green....I like the circular flattened sword fern..... (November 2022)

Here are some snowberries left behind after the leaves of the plant have long since fallen away. i particularly like the the accumulation...

Named for its color, not for the time of year, Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) can also be found in the Green. This shrub is a...

Autumn might be synonymous with falling leaves, but in the Pacific Northwest it is when the rains arrive. This year (2022) the rains...

Another leaf, this time from a cottonwood, pauses its autumnal journey on the frond of a Sword Fern. (October 2022)

If this tree is not the embodiment of the Halloween Season then I don't know what is. After all the times that I've walked the Green, it...

Falling leaves are now all the rage in the Green. This colorful Big Leaf Maple has found a temporary home in a huckleberry bush. (October...

The browns and tans are starting to edge out the rich summer greens that dominated the last several months. (October 2022)

As the morning sunlight shines through the Green, you can just make out a little bit of the wildfire smoke that has been effecting our...

After a couple of weeks away, I find that Autumn has fallen over the Green. The colors are starting to turn, as the leaves fall and...

One more view of the canopy for now. As the canopy spreads out to collect sunlight for the trees, it leaves the Green a cool place to...

A variety of trees filter the light through the canopy of the Green. (September 2020)

Here we are looking up into the canopy of an old Red Alder tree (Alnus rubra). (August 2022)

I love looking up into the canopy to see how the light shines through the leaves. In this case, we are looking up the trunk of a Big...

Leaves of the Big Leave Maple tree (Acer macrophyllum) are easy to identify, and are a common resident of the Pacific Northwest. These...

Look at that - everyone seems to be interested in these blackberries! Though to be fair, after her curiosity in what I was photographing...

Late summer brings blackberries to the Puget Sound. There are small native blackberries that grow close to the ground, but almost all of...