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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 5h

Harbor Seal snagging a King Salmon, Seattle's Ballard Locks:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 5h

Harbor Seal with a King Salmon almost as big as he is, Seattle's Ballard Locks:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 5h

Sea Lion scarfing down a King Salmon at Seattle's Ballard Locks:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 6h

Ghost sign corner of Jackson Street and First Avenue South, Pioneer Square. Coffee fueled Seattle long before Starbucks! Old CHASE & SANBORN'S SEAL BRAND COFFEE (first introduced 1902) sign on 1904 brick building:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pterodactyls over Seattle for first time in 66 million years. 😁 Derek Wu mural Belltown First Avenue and Bell Street:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle. . .

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Echo by Robert Rauschenberg, 1998, nine-panel, 12-foot-high mural for Seattle's Benaroya Hall using vegetable dye transfer on polylaminate:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Benaroya Hall's Boeing Company Gallery, Seattle:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Crystal Cascade, by Dale Chihuly, handblown glass and steel, 1998, Seattle's Benaroya Hall:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy National Coffee Day! Celebrate with a coffee and a book. And a couple of cookies if you wish! 🧋☕️🥃📖

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flying Dinosaur Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After you've had your coffee Monday morning. Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Before you've had your first cup of coffee Monday morning! 😆 Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Get the second printing of my new book, SEATTLE Pioneer Square History Walk, at my Blue Parrot Books website bookstore: blueparrotbooks.com/shop/ols/pro... Or 25% off at our Seattle bookstore partners, Arundel Books in Pioneer Square, as well as Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill!

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Washington State Ferry Chimacum sailing across Puget Sound off Alki Beach, below The Brothers peaks of the Olympic Mountains, bound for Bremerton on the Kitsap Peninsula:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Koma Kulshan (aka Mount Baker), Seattle’s other volcano, hasn't been this clear in weeks! Viewed from Alki Beach:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just another glorious day in Paradise! Sailing Puget Sound off Alki Beach:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seattle's first Art Deco tower, 27-story Seattle Tower, at southeast corner Third Avenue and University Street, originally known as the Northern Life Tower because it was built for the Northern Life Insurance Company. Building designed to resemble a mountain, crowned with stylized evergreen trees:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seattle's first skyscraper, the 17-story Hoge Building constructed 1911 by banker and real estate developer James D. Hoge on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Cherry Street, on the site of Seattle co-founder Carson Boren's 1852 cabin:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Little Sunbursts on a Dreary Seattle Day Pike Place Market:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even a 460 foot Jumbo Mark II Class Washington State super ferry like the M/V Wenatchee is dwarfed by modern cruise ships, this the 1,100 foot Norwegian Cruise Lines Norwegian Joy:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cormorant perched on a piling, off West Seattle's Seacrest Park: 🪶

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the joys of living in West Seattle is being able to commute to Pioneer Square via the King County Water Taxi!

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Open Wide! Sea Lions chomping on King Salmon at Seattle's Ballard Locks:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Open Wide! Sea Lion chomping on a King Salmon at Seattle's Ballard Locks:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Washington State Ferry Kaleetan passing West Seattle's Duwamish Head, bound for Seattle's Colman Dock:

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A flock of delightfully hyperactive Sanderlings descended on Alki Beach today. Small wading sandpipers that breed in the Arctic during the summer, then migrate to South America for the winter: 🪶

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22° Sun Halo over Alki Beach last day of summer (not a Sundog, that's an entirely different critter):

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Glorious Seeing Summer Out Death by Chocolate Ice Cream Waffle Cone from Alki Ice Cream Kinda Monday at Alki Beach! 😎😋🍦⛱️

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SEATTLE Pioneer Square History Walk available from Pioneer Square's Arundel Books as well as Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill. Chocolate chip cookies from the Pastry Project. Coffee from Caffé D'arte, both of Pioneer Square Seattle! 📖😎🍪🧋

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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026