Vivid and clear

Fruit #9: Horse chestnut

Nut! Closely related to the buckeye.

Being unable to choose

Was Downtown this afternoon

Fruit #8: Rose hips

An aggregate fruit full of achenes. Also, don't eat the hair inside the hips.

Late afternoon

Fruit #7: Acorn

It's a true nut

Also

This was impressive when it was deposited. And will be again.

Being unable to choose

Fruit #6: Cockleburr

Probably asteraceae

Also

Box turtle

Golden hour

Fruit #5: Maple seeds

Maple seeds are winged samaras. What a great name!

Geranium and dew

Fruit #4: Possibly Crepis

The aster family all have modified achenes called cypselae, of which there are always many.

Also

Fjord horse?

Plow, retired

Fruit #3: Raspberry

Plums, almonds, cherries and other stone fruit are drupes; a raspberry is made up of many tiny attached drupes called drupelets. Each bubble on a raspberry is a wee drupe in itself. Raspberries and stone fruits are both from the rose family.

From North to South

Fruit #2: Hawthorn

Hawthorns produce pomes, which look like berries but aren't.

The first day of autumn on Latah Creek

Fruit #1: Pumpkin

Pumpkins are a type of modified berry called a pepo.

International Day of Peace

Irony?

Hillyard Library

Spokane.

What.

Cacti

Grey squirrel

Ollyphont

Osprey

Maple seeds

Comedy and tragedy

Latah Creek

Up North

Fall color

Alpine lake

Mill pilings  in Ione

Rain/hail mix in full sunlight,  because why not?

Mist on the river

Or else what, says kestrel

Hop-hornbeam

Ferny

Hazel

The beginining

Varves

Each set of dark and light lines is the leftovers of a glacial outburst

Where the channel split

At Sprague and Division

We went to the former Northern Pacific yard on Sprague and Division today. This is where a group of railroad workers were killed by a pile of basalt being dynamited out in 1890. I'd never heard of it before yesterday. I've walked through here dozens of times. Looking SW

A view of exposed basalt columns from underneath the rail bridge. Looking E

From the cemetery

Benjamin Patrick Brierley

1877-1935

Grandson of Sergt Gass

Of L&C Expedition 

Metal marker

Desdemonia Howard

Orange S. Frizzell

Spanish American War surgeon 

Heavy Artillery GAR

Zulu, his wife

(J. W. Young)