posted from Seattle, WA April 25, 2025 800 Years!- But don't expect a celebration (Pope Francis died as the ad-deadline was upon us. It pains me that at this moment I would be making a public statement that did not express my own sadness at...
posted from Seattle WA on March 23 2025 Delia and I tagged along on a trip to Douglas County with our friends Brian and Darchelle as spring burst onto the calendar. On the way home we stopped at the Wild Horse Wind Farm on the Vantage...
Posted from Seattle on Feb 20, 2025 Delia and I spent the last two weeks in the bootheel of New Mexico. Time in the bootheel always means I get a lot of painting done. Here's the report in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGOaegJlhw These shots are after one session...
Posted from Seattle WA on Jan 12, 2025 If you head north these days in Central Washington state you notice it gets whiter as you go, first the tops of the hills and mountains, then everything, and sometimes you can throw in fog. I suggested the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 17, 2024 One Seattle is a terrible plan that will not achieve much density but will succeed in wiping out the remainder of Seattle's urban tree canopy, already ranked low among the great American cities. Northwest Buldings have mostly been dwarfed...
by Ed Newbold posted from Seattle, WA, Dec. 27, 2024. Bill McKibben, a person with immense accomplishments, a stellar individual who cares as much about this Earth as anyone on it--this is not personal! (Photo by Gage Skidmore courtesy of Wikicommons.) DISCLAIMER--this is not an...
Posted from Seattle, WA October 18, 2024 I'm running a new ad similar to my last one in color in the A-section of the Seattle Times on Sunday Octobery 20, 2024. For those who differ in their pick, this is how I feel: Our country has celebrated...
Posted from Seattle, WA on October 4, 2024 Â Â This is an ad that will run this Sunday October 6 in color in the Seattle Times. The whole subject gripes me. If the people and culture of the United States understood what they seemed to know in their...
We were surprised to see a no-ethanol option at a gas station in Conway, WA a month ago. It was expensive but worth it. For at least one fillup we weren't responsible for starving the poor of the world and felling the prairies and rain...
posted from Seattle, WA on May 22, 2024 Most of us live in cities and don't see a creek in our day-to-day lives. Seattle was plumbed in 1903 and though there has been some laudable daylighting, most of the water is piped to Westpoint to create...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 17, 2024 You won't hear about it on the radio, you won't see it on Television, you won't read about it in the newspaper, but it's migration time! Delia and I have been torn between watching it out the back door...
posted from Seattle, WA May 11, 2024 I'm running an ad in the A-section of the Seattle Times on May 12, 2024. The ads words, so this is searchable: HEADLINE: Friends don't let friends commit genocide. Israel needs real friends Those who are sharply criticizing Israel and...
posted April 26, 2024 from Seattle, WA The migration is up and running. On April 26 Delia and I were home and we had the tripod set up so I could get photos of the birds that came in for a bath. I still missed many, including...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 25, 2024 Fall, winter, and if there is a monsoon, summer are the best times in the Bootheel. Spring can be dusty and very very windy and is usually bone-dry. But it's still spring and a lot of things bloom and...
posted from Seattle, WA on March 24, 2024 Elias Benitez, who recently bought McPherson’s Fruit Stand on Beacon Hill was asked if he thought it would be easy to keep it going. “What is easy in this life? He replied to the Seattle Times reporter, “Nothing....
By Ed Newbold posted from Seattle on March 15, 2024 Adapted from a Blog originally published in 2013, when Seattle still had many Swallows All photos and paintings by Ed Newbold unless otherwise noted Barn Swallow, painting by Ed Newbold In 2013 I wrote: Seattle lost its Nighthawks before anyone...
posted from Seattle, WA on February 22 2024 By Ed Newbold Delia and I were up in the Skagit/Samish surge plain in the last week, that's were we saw the Barn that is the cover shot for this blog. Another shot shows it obscured by flying Snow...
I’m running the above ad in the Seattle Times on Sunday December 31, 2023. It calls on the United States to join the overwhelming majority of other Nations of the world—159 Nations-- in calling for an immediate humanitarian Cease-Fire. The headline reads: Listen to the musicians… Thank you...
posted from Seattle, WA on Nov 19, 2023 I'm planning to put up photos of the paintings I've been working on the most lately. You could also watch the movie. Marlon Brando doesn't appear in the movie, but he is mentioned! Studio Rundown 11 18 23...
posted November 18, 2023 from Seattle, WA The weight of the Environmentalist movement appears so far to have been thrown almost unanimously on the side of the plan to slowly reintroduce Grizzly Bears into the North Cascades National Park. And the plan appears to be becoming...
posted from Seattle WA on November 2, 2023. By this time in the fall the birds we see coming to the creek for a bath are a pretty settled group, without a lot of variability. But Delia was watching the birds in the creek and noticed...
The Best-Kept Secret in Silver Lake Posted from Seattle, WA on June 9, 2023It's not well-known--in fact it's nearly a secret, but Silver Lake WA hosts the largest colony of Purple Martins west of the Mississippi. Its the creation of one man--Ken Buker, who has loved...