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...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 25, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVMtmf2fUiY This is Studio Rundown, May 25th, 2023. I'm really excited to keep working on this painting of Snow Geese in the Skagit. ...
Posted from seattle, WA on May 24, 2023 It's Delia's 73rd and my 72nd May. May is by far the biggest month on the calendar if you love Birds, as many come up from the South-lands to breed here in the temperate zone. In past Mays...
posted from Seattle, WA May 17th, 2023. A line from Blondie's brilliant hit song Picture This always amused me "I will give you my finest hour, the one I spent watching you shower...
posted from Seattle, WA, April 29 2023 Delia held out a long time before scheduling a trip to the Bootheel this time. This winter was one thing after another--sound familiar? We decided to chase a Red-headed Woodpecker that was spending the winter in a huge mature Cottonwood...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 29, 2023. Delia and I made a short trip down to New Mexico in the last half of April. I'm limited to paintings that are 18 x 24 inches or less down there so I went back to work...
Posted from Seattle, WA on February 26, 2023 Ground Hog's Day is for Pennsylvania, (where I'm from). It doesn't apply here in Washington state. Delia and I found this fairly large and very pretty Western Garter Snake out and about in Ridgefield, WA on Friday, the...
Posted from Cannes, well no, actually, our basement in Seattle, WA January 31, 2023 Disruption and Deception. Deception can be a good thing perhaps in certain complicated scenarios (think surprise parties) or when you are a Pass. Disruption is quite often a good thing, as it...