Partly cloudy to mostly sunny in Seattle. Calm winds, pleasant temperatures.
Not much time outside today, but I did listen to birds and make observations of plants in my brother’s yard.
Several species I saw or heard were familiar from home. A House Sparrow and House Finch made calls I didn’t recognize. I relied on Merlin for them. When Merlin made the suggestion, they did seem plausible, so I had a reasonable level of confidence in the ID. Black-capped Chickadees sound like chickadees, but not the Chestnut-backed Chickadees I’m familiar, so that was easy enough.
Rowan, Jonathan and I spent most of the walking around the artist and vendor booths at the Emerald City Comicon. I think there were probably at least a couple of hundred artists and not quite as many vendors (which had large booths).
Plenty of people were there, but my brother said it’s likely that it will be much busier over the weekend.
After several hours on hard floors, my feet were feeling it. However, I think not quite as painful as our prior visit in 2022.
The sun was dropping low in the sky, and made nice light on Mt. Rainier, which we had some nice looks at on the drive back to my brother’s.
I spend very little time in cities, and often find myself marveling at the amount of landscape modification and infrastructure (and the amount of work that went into it). Today I found myself wondering how durable it would be without maintenance. If people suddenly left the area, how the water would work from above and below in partnership with gravity to break things down (and cover things up). How plants would begin to colonize and breakup the many surfaces which are currently plant free.
My iNaturalist Observations for Today
