#puget sound beach

[valleyoakphoto]

3-30-24

[flowerishness]

Grindelia integrifolia (Puget Sound gumweed)

I regularly post photos of plants from all over the world, both in garden settings and out there in my local environment. But if you want to see a Puget Sound gumweed you have to come to my 'neck of the woods' because this wildflower only grows in Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia, Canada. This one is growing by White Rock beach, a short distance from the Peace Arch crossing.

As Jimmy Durante used to say, "Everybody wants to get into the act." The green iridescent bee, the honey bee and the bumblebee are all following the rules. The gumweed pays them in nectar and pollen if they agree to fly off to another gumweed flower and complete the fertilization process. This is a one hundred million year-old, biological contract and it seems to work very well.

The big green caterpillar in the last photo would appear to be taking pollen dishonestly and giving the gumweed nothing in return. However this caterpillar will soon pupate and emerge next spring as a beautiful butterfly. That's when this Puget Sound gumweed will get a return on its investment, as that butterfly flies from flower to flower, looking for something to eat.

[thekendallkathryn]

my favorite place on earth 🩷💜

[ancientstarrydynamo]

[rabbitcruiser]

Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain on June 4, 1792.

[mossy-wanderer]

[newmosbiusdesigns]

Alki Beach, West Seattle by Patrick O'Brien

[pytheon]

[jessepaulmiller]

Beach drawings…

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[unofficial-sean]

Footage from my dive this morning!

Rock soles, speckled sanddabs, helmet crabs, graceful crabs, red rock crabs, longnose crabs, snake pricklebacks, anemones, and more await you beneath the emerald sea surface off the shore of Steilacoom, WA.

[valleyoakphoto]

The mountain is out

4-22-24

[dromaeo-sauridae]

went to owen beach yesterday

[thekendallkathryn]

Sucia Series: "South Shore Seaweed"

[shadykit]

God but I love Seattle

[dewitty1]

Martha's Beach, La Conner, Washington March 2, 2023

[museofhestia]

Life in the PNW

A late summer day in West Seattle! We went to Lincoln Park and visited Brun Idunn (the troll) and then we went to Alki Beach for more beach time and tacos!

Sept 21, 2024

West Seattle - Lincoln Park and Alki Beach