posted from Seattle WA by Ed Newbold on May 6 2026 On May 3 Delia and I went out and birded the Snoqualmie Valley including the Tolt MacDonald Park and the Stillwater Wildlife Management Unit and we took the long way home that goes by the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on March 22, 2026. I'm on a major campaign to finish paintings, old and new. I've been trying to finish Redwing and Rainier for 21 years, and possibly yesterday is the last time I will have worked on it. This King Salmon...
posted Feb 27, 2026 from Seattle, WA. This Northern Cardinal was one of two singing at Dunagan's Crossing in the bootheel of New Mexico. This Vermillion Flycatcher was at Cochise Lake in Arizona on Feb 12 2026. Here's a closer shot. We encountered thousands of beautiful Sandhill Cranes at...
Posted From Seattle Feb 3 2026 We spent a long day in the cold out at the Piano Ranch in the Snoqualmie Valley looking for a Palm Warbler that we never found. Another Birder found it 20 minutes after we left, but it led to a...
posted from Seattle, WA on Jan 30, 2026. This ad will appear in the A-section of the Seattle Times on Sunday, February 1, 2026. There's a mass deportation going on in America now that is all built on a one-word foundation: "Undocumented." This word has been accepted...
Posted from Seattle December 25, 2025 (Christmas) This has frustrated some friends (and given them headaches!), but for me being in focus is not the highest priority in photography. I look for shots that teach me things I didn't know or make me realize how beautiful...
Posted from Seattle December 20, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBM2FBAbr7E This Progressive Conservative wants us to clean up our language Using the word “undocumented” to describe immigrants is an unforced error for anyone who is opposed to the current deportation cruelty. Nor should the word undocumented be used by those who...
Posted December 4, 2025 from Seattle, WA, USA I have underside-flight-paintings of Red-tailed Hawk and Osprey at the store, high above the entrance. Most people don't see or don't notice them, but then, who knows what we notice subliminally, right? I have long felt I needed a...
Liberals keep losing the biggest, most crucial battles of our times. (footnote: Marriage Equality a rare exception, more on that later). Is it because conservative arguments tend to reduce more efficiently to sound-bites? Do conservative arguments tend to seem more like common sense? Is there some...
Posted July 27, 2025 from Seattle, WA. “Stocks are surging,” reported NPR this morning. While the article contained a strong (and wise) caution that what goes up could perhaps go down, it listed only various strong economic indicators to explain why the Market might be going...
Posted from Seattle, WA July 22, 2025 We landed in Tucson July 8 and were welcomed by a Southwest that was parched and desiccated as another "Nonsoon" was apparently replacing the erstwhile "normal" summer monsoon. We had never seen the range look so bad as...
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 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...