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Child of the space age, observer of things in flight, tickler of the ether, struggler with the pen and pinhole. ☮️ 👨‍👩‍👧🖖🏻73 N7ITU

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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 02/10/2026
A self-reminder that I share with you
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HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
15 years ago today, a ceremony marked the start of demolition of the Elwha River hydroelectric dams. historylink.org/File/11011
Last remnants of Elwha Dam, February 14, 2012
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 17/09/2026
#orange
Orange smoke emanates from handheld and ground-placed flares on a shoreline. Across the water, a marina is visible.Orange smoke emanates from handheld and ground-placed flares on a shoreline. A waterfront building and pine tree are nearby.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 07/08/2026
pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee pwee… duckling all alone
A duckling swims away from a concrete wall, leaving a lightly rippling wake.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Double-exposure photograph, staged for Century magazine in 1899, showing Nikola Tesla — born #onthisday in 1856 — seated beneath a giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n…
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 15/04/2026
These were millimeters apart in a stack of mostly postcards
The upper left corner of a forest-green, glossy print brochure is overlaid upon a post card such that the hypotenuse of a brown triangle accenting the upper left corner aligns with a bottom border of the photo on the post card below. An uncanny color match is found in that photo, which depicts ancient art from the Petrified Forest National Park. The brochure obstructs half of the text, leaving “Petrified Nation” visible. The brochure is titled “America the Beautiful.”
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 18/03/2026
lobster boat ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️🟨🟨⬜️ ⬜️⬜️🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle 1,733
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 02/03/2026
⬜️🟨🟩🟨⬜️ 🟩⬜️🟩⬜️🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No. 1,717
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 13/12/2025
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟨 ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #1637
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/11/2025
The President is a crook —and everyone should understand, when it comes to FEMA, these are taxpayer dollars he’s abusing, this isn’t Trump’s money. Trump is punishing Blue states and rewarding Red states—and he could not be more transparent about his corruption.
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Bomb cyclone FEMA denial stings WA as Trump touts aid to red states
A year after Washington's bomb cyclone, the Trump administration has withheld aid even as the president has bragged about awards to states that voted for him.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 18/10/2025
I am not doing enough but I did this #BlueskyArtShow #vertical #nokings #olympia @olyindivisible.bsky.social
Facing the legislative building in Olympia, Washington, where a large crowd of people has gathered. At the base of the eight columns are giant, colorful handmade letters spelling RESIST.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 16/10/2025
Gosh those things are small
Five green leaves of a Himalayan blackberry vine. On one is a Pacific chorus frog, also green, covering only about one-eighth of one leaf.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 05/10/2025
Photographic still life with a molded Charlie Brown atop a wooden block, a baseball atop an antique bottle, a jade plant, and a transistor radio antenna. The baseball is branded Seattle Mariners.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 28/09/2025
Set them down and was struck by the pattern
A Micron pen, closed, rests on a Moleskine journal, green and also closed, on a blue-gray cushion. They are crossed by angular shadows from (unseen) blinds letting through much sun.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 04/09/2025
Charlatan = faker, quack
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 21/08/2025
“miserable, hate-filled wretch” I like how my Senator characterizes people honestly and openly. And how she keeps directing the conversation toward better alternatives than the current administration’s operating mode.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 17/08/2025
Shadow selfie at Hanwoori Garden, which opened in Federal Way, Washington, in June 2025. The space is impeccably designed, expertly crafted, and warmly inviting. It is the first traditional Korean garden in the state. Find it adjacent to Panther Lake.
Semi rectangular stone obelisk with a sloping top edge interrupted by a circle depicting a taegeuk. Letters spelling “we are one” are stacked on the left side. Shadows of tree leaves and the torso of a human figure are cast on the yellow-toned, sun-warmed gray surface.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 12/08/2025
Startling conclusion ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #1515
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 01/08/2025
Aptly named dragonfly: common whitetail #odonata
A dragonfly clings to a sun-faded fence board. It has black bands on clear wings and a pale chalk-blue abdomen. The top quarter of the image reveals glossy green leaves behind the board, some tinged yellow.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 28/07/2025
⬜️⬜️⬜️🟨⬜️ 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Interesting shapes 13: Valley. Wordle 1500
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 28/07/2025
“SeaHorse” by Ben Dye, constructed from repurposed above ground oil tanks, installed in Covington, Washington in 2014 (2009).
The head and neck of a crafted seahorse against a gray sky. The sculpture rises above trees in the background.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 24/07/2025
“Unit 77” King Street Station, Lumen Field, and a touch of T-Mobile Park in the distance beyond a Seattle Fire station.
See post. An open door at the fire station reveals a fire engine with the number 77.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 22/07/2025
Heard 4 stations on TEVEL2-3 but 5W to an Arrow was insufficient for me to break the squelch on a 35° pass 🙁
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 20/07/2025
It is Suchitra Mattai whose show is nearly done. Hurry. Really. Get to SAAM.
Detail from suchitra mattai piece at Seattle Asian Art Museum. Vintage saris woven and ornamented. Brightly colored cool and hot. 
Pappy’s house (detail), 2024, Suchitra Mattai, Guyana, b. 1973, worn saris, aluminum, beaded trim, tinsel, 216 x 110.96 x 81.38 in. Photo: Scott Richardson, 2025.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 19/07/2025
Ai Weiwei’s “Water Lilies,” on view for 1 more day at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, is almost 50 feet long and contains 650,000 toy bricks.
An abstract art piece dominates the frame with shades of blue, pink, and yellow shifting to black, red, and purple from left to right. At the far end, a person stands and looks at the art.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 19/07/2025
Tinkered with the @11ty.dev import feature along with both blogger and bluesky this morning. Learned a little but successes fell short.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 17/07/2025
Setting down the Arrow after a couple of passes. CQd through MO-122 but no CW takers. Worked 3 on AO-91. #hamradio
A small antenna on a lawn: two series of aluminum tubes at right angles mounted on a square boom.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 08/07/2025
Wordle milestone reached at number 1480. Played about 150 games before this set, but the stats mysteriously disappeared. My average hovers around 3.9. Thanks for the fun, @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk
Cropped screenshot from Wordle showing statistics: 1000 played, 99 win %, 90 current streak, 181 max streak.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 03/07/2025
Fun shapes returns. I blew through 19 letters on this one. It was frightening. ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 ⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle 1,475
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 02/07/2025
Saprophytic
Two pale, slender mushrooms grow together from a lawn between rows of nearly identical gravestones. The perspective is from ground level.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 26/06/2025
I’ll take this to be a fine demonstration of Morse code advocacy, even though that’s not what they meant. #hamradio
A chain link fence with large block letters (purple with gold outline) woven in that spell C W SOARS. Trees and partly cloudy sky form the backdrop.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 21/06/2025
#BlueskyArtShow These steps were added to Robert Morris Earthwork (1979) at Johnson Pit No. 30 in Kent, Washington, to help prevent erosion. Yes, they are #narrow. FMI: preservewa.org/most_endange...
Wooden steps set into a hillside, seen from the approach from above. The steps down lead through a dried-grass landscape with layers of roughly oblong terracing in the distance.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 18/06/2025
Detail from a mural, at St Helens and S Baker in Tacoma, by Natalie Oswald and Joel Barber, made as part of the Tacoma Murals Project. #crow #corvid
Artist’s rendition of a crow using opera glasses against a backdrop of blue sky and leafed tree branch.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 15/06/2025
My father when he was just a little more than half my age. Time flies.
Portrait of a smiling white male, mid 30s, with a butch haircut and a tooth gap, wearing a wide-plaid button-front shirt.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 15/06/2025
Positive vibes in Oly today
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 13/06/2025
It’s not just @npr.org and @pbs.org — the Corporation for Public Broadcasting supports myriad other stations, including the inimitable KEXP. Support @djjohnrichards.bsky.social and DJ Morgan in the final hour of their historic marathon at kexp.org.
Video screen mounted on wall is cropped but shows words “KEXP’s program” and “Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Nearby are photographs of musicians including Kurt Cobain.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 11/06/2025
“Make your world larger… by going slower.” This detail is from a statue, in Issaquah, Washington, of Harvey Manning, lifelong hiking advocate, who was instrumental in preserving wildlands within urban King County. The statue was created by Sara Johani and Tom Jay. It was dedicated in 2009.
Detail from a bronze statue showing a hand, resting on a knee, holding a small notebook. Words are inscribed on the notebook are difficult to read.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 10/06/2025
Agreeing, as so often I do, with the senior Senator from Washington State. Deploying the National Guard was wrong. Sending Marines is wrong. The dictator wannabe is so fixated on finding enemies he will invent them to fulfill his strongman fantasies.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 08/06/2025
Too hot, revisited #BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant
Wide angle with lawn mower in lower right aimed into lawn of different lengths with scattered bamboo shoots invading. The angle features a bright orange knob, beyond which is the mower deck and a sunny, green backyard
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 08/06/2025
Too hot for this today #BlueskyArtShow #vivid
Wide angle with lawn mower in lower right aimed into lawn of different lengths with scattered bamboo shoots invading. The angle features a bright orange knob, beyond which is the mower deck and a sunny, green backyard.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 04/06/2025
Whose bench is this?
A moss-covered bench crafted of split wood positioned in a forest of leafy trees and ferns.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 02/06/2025
Truer as modified #PDX ABC
A sign stating “drug free zone,” with the word “free” faded and obscured, mounted on an iron fence in front of a stone-built church building containing two arched windows.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 26/05/2025
#whereami
Building-top sign in the shape of the Oregon border with “Portland Oregon” in script enclosed within. A leaping stag is at the top. The sign’s support structure is visible behind.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 22/05/2025
PNW forest beauty
Bright green intricate leaves and a 5-petaled pink flower against tree bark
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 21/05/2025
Into the void, angel aka F-winged Barklouse* flying from my knee *If the @inaturalist.bsky.social AI ID is 2B believed #BlueskyArtShow #texture
Translucent wings in motion around a gold-brown object against a black background. It appears to have launched from a domed, tan, textured surface.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 20/05/2025
USGS Bird Banding Lab (and other programs) in danger? May 22 at 9 Pacific, join me and NWF for a “Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science.” www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...
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Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science · National Wildlife Federation
We need YOU as we rally in support of critical federal government services at risk of being lost forever. The U.S. Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area is responsible for many of the programs tha...
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 16/05/2025
Greens are good for you
A small padlock hooked onto a wire-mesh fence was painted dark green when the whole fence was painted. Pale green leaves provide a backdrop.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 15/05/2025
Fantastic mix on The Afternoon Show with Larry Mizell, Jr., who with other KEXP DJs is honoring Brian Eno on his birthday
Large, lighted letters: K E X P
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 10/05/2025
Day trip to Seattle Center for a King Hannah appearance at KEXP And a periodic reminder 🦋
Photograph with strong vertical components. Shot through a forest-green painted metal fence, a second, similarly colored fence/cage surrounds weather station instruments on a white post. Beyond it are trees including a western hemlock with its drooping tip, and beyond that is Seattle’s Space Needle rising into a blue sky.
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Scott Richardson @aves-specta.com · 01/05/2025
#cocorahs rainfall for April was 1.83", enough to keep the grass growing and green
Long lawn grass. Spiky shades of green. That is all.
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