In the winter of 96-97, a series of storms caused a piece of bluff in Magnolia to peel off towards the sea. Many houses on wealthy Perkins Lane ended up on the beach. The clean up afterwards was a bit half-assed, and as a result you can still find refrigerators, clothes, and driveway slabs scattered around the scarp. It's beautiful, in a post-industrial collapse kind of way, on the other hand, why didn't they just clean up their mess!? So, so typical.
(Left) landslide ruins, with the bluff in the background
(Right) the seattle skyline and mount rainier in the distance
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(below) The weedy Erigeron philadelphicus, Philadelphia Fleabane, just bloomed in the last few days