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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What is a corporation's good name worth? Certainly more than $200K. Bricks & Minifigs has burned their reputation to the ground, and will likely never recover.

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A wood duck drake leaps onto a fallen log on the shore, then shakes the water off, to the indifference of his mate. #duck #woodduck #bird #birds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Bushtits! One of the smallest songbirds in the US. They're brown and grey, with eyes that are black (male) or yellow (female). Bushtits constantly on the move, hopping to the next branch. Using moss, grass, and spiderwebs, they build hanging nests that look like a dirty sock. #bird #birds #bushtit

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 14 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1. Tampico Mexican Restaurant, with a splendid neon entrance. 2-3. Erickson Furniture, a single neon "E" lifted high above the pavement. This concludes my February 2026 expedition to Everett. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 13 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1-2. Motel Express, originally Rip Van Winkle Motel, since 1949. Neon illustrates downtown Seattle, about 30 miles away. 3-4. Tampico Mexican Restaurant, with a splendid neon entrance. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Downtown Everett. Marquee bulb or bulb-letter signs, where open face channel letters are lit from within by hundreds of light bulbs. 1890s tech, before neon signs mostly replaced it. 1-2. Funko Headquarters (backlit neon + bulb letters) 3. Marquee Apartments #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 12 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1-2. Gospel Light Church (Pentecostal), with a red neon cross. 3. KSER 90.7fm, listener-supported public radio, with general manager Garett Michaels. 4. El Paraiso restaurant #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 11 of many. Fuji X-T5. Apex Everett, an event space in a historic building downtown. Inside, a custom LED sign points to the bar, El Sid, whose namesakes are the legendary hero El Cid and rocker Sid Vicious. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 10 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1-3. Anthony's Woodfire Grill, next to Anthony's HomePort. Their second sign is backlit with neon. 4. Everett Yacht Club, with neon-look LED in the upstairs window. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 9 of many. Fuji X-T5. Anthony's HomePort Restaurant, Everett. Anthony's occupies a functioning lighthouse with a rotating beacon, overlooking a marina, with views of the Olympic Mountains across the Sound. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 8 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1. Harbor Marine 2. Bayside Marine 3. Performance Marine 4. Inn at Port Gardner #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 7 of many. Fuji X-T5. Everett Motel, which included a smoke shop, closed in 2012 and was demolished in 2015. The site is now a vacant lot, and only this broken neon sign remains. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 6 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1. Farwest Motel, rooftop neon. 2. General Car Wash & Sinclair Gas 3. Sonic Drive-In. It's a cherry! 4. Royal Casino Everett. Closed 2025, pole-mounted neon still lit on one side. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 5 of many. Fuji X-T5. Totem Family Dining, since 1953. The sign, painted to resemble a carved totem pole, alternately lights the two "TOTEM" words; these are composite photos to show both lit together. The message below changes often. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 4 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1. Love Zone, erotic toy shop, since 1996. 2. Psychic Eye Intuitive Readings & Chakra Wellness. "Palm Reader" is neon, "Psychic" is LED. 3-4. Special Interest Auto Body, with a custom neon clock inside. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 3 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1-3. Leavitt Auto Sales - family owned car dealer, since 1990. Awesome antique car neon sign, and the office is neon-lit too! 4. Mikie's Authentic American Cuisine - neon "Open" #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 2 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1. One Twelfth Street Diner, permanently closed in 2025. 2. Zab Thai Restaurant (same plaza as 112th St.), window sign 3. Anderson's Shopping Center and Giorgio's Pizza 4. Central Body Works #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 1 of many. Fuji X-T5. 1. La Palmera Family Mexican Restaurant 2-3. Dick's Hamburgers, the 10th and newest location. 4. Glacier Lanes, 1957-2020. Building is now a Ukrainian Baptist Church, but the non-functioning neon sign remains. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Chan's Place, Woodinville, Washington. Opened in August 1980 by the Chan family, who emigrated from China in the 1970s. Photographed May 2024. Fuji X-T5 with Sigma 10-18 f2.8. #neon #neonsign #neonsigns #woodinville

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"Please stop doing that. I'm trying to sleep, here." #ducks #woodducks #birds Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland WA

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Sea lion, being unfailingly polite, and wondering if you have any sources to back up your opinion. Mukilteo, WA.

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Brant (Branta bernicla), a small coastal goose, about the size of seagull (one of which is included for comparison). I've only seen these once, a flock of about 20 on the Edmonds Waterfront, and they took off about 15 minutes after I got there. (from April) #bird #birds #geese #brant #edmondswa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Heron and Antiheron. Union Bay Natural Area, Seattle #bird #birds #greenheron

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The Sora, or Carolina Rail, forages for food in shallow wetlands, and is about the size of a robin. Rails are slender, to walk through marsh grasses - origin of the phrase "thin as a rail". Juanita Bay Park, Aug 28. My second lifer of the day! #bird #birds #sora #rail #kirklandwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Northern pintail ducks, female or non-breeding. They are dabbing ducks, meaning that they will plunge their heads into the water, butts in the air, to forage for food below the surface. Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland. One of three "lifers" I saw that day. #ducks #northernpintail #bird #birds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Spotted sandpiper on the South Fork Stillaguamish River, Big Four Mountain Trail. Expedition led by Neil Zimmerman and Roniq Bartanen of Birds Connect Seattle. @birdsconnectsea @she_birds #bird #birds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Male white-spotted sawyer beetle, on fireweed, Big Four Mountain, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The elytra (wing cases) are open as he unfolds his wings to take flight. #beetle #insect #washington #nationalforest #bugs

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Cedar waxwing from not very far away. Big Four Mountain, WA. #bird #birds #cedarwaxwing

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Big Four Ice Cave. July, 2017.

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Rhinoceros auklets, a seabird of the North Pacific, closely related to puffins. The horn-like structure on the nose is present only in breeding adults, and is shed every year. #auklet #bird #seabird #birds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Reorganized my space museum today. This shelf commemorates the American moon landing and the programs that led to it. Mercury-Redstone, Mercury-Atlas, Gemini, Apollo, and Artemis. And under the glass dome, a fragment of the moon itself. #space #spacecraft #nasa #lego

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Sister-wives? Red-winged blackbirds are polygynous - several females will share the territory of, and mate with, one male. These three stayed close together as they flew from one location to the next. The male stayed at the top of his usual tree, watching over us all. #bird #birds #blackbirds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Smith Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the destination of the @pugetsoundexpress puffin cruise. The lighthouse here, built in 1858, was abandoned in the 1950s due to erosion of the bluff, and crumbled into the sea in 1998. #lighthouse #birds #smithisland

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A belted kingfisher queen is startled, and departs. From this week's puffin tour to Smith Island on the Swiftsure, out of Edmonds. @pugetsoundexpress @birdsconnectsea #bird #birds #kingfisher #salishsea

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Tufted puffin near Smith Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, as seen from the catamaran Swiftsure, operated by @pugetsoundexpress out of Edmonds, WA, in partnership with @birdsconnectsea. #bird #birds #puffins #salishsea

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Chicago River, 2018. From the rooftop bar at London House. Fuji 10-24mm #chicago #chicagoriver @lhchicago

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Juvenile great horned owl. Its plumicorns, or horn-like tufts of feathers, are barely there but will grow more awesome with age. Wiley Slough, Skagit Wildlife Area, WA. #bird #birds #owl #owls #greathornedowl #skagitcountywa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Purple martins, the largest swallow in North America. Marymoor Park, Redmond WA. #bird #birds #martins #purplemartins #swallows

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

"The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow" Marymoor Park, Redmond WA #birds #bird #swallow #treeswallow

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Chestnut-backed chickadee leaving its nest in a woodpecker hole. Kirkland, WA. COMPOSITE IMAGE made from two consecutive shots at 1/10 fps. #bird #birds #yesitsaphotoshop

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am." Sid and Nancy, the resident ospreys in the cell tower next to my condo building, caught in the act. The whole process took about twelve seconds. Sid then flew off in the direction of the river, probably thinking of his next meal. #bird #birds #osprey #birdporn

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

On your mark, get set, go! Song sparrow, Meadowbrook Pond, Seattle. #bird #birds #sparrow #songsparrow

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

crow (noun), a black hole in the sky that yells at you #bird #birds #crow

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