LBA Woods Park in Photos

May 6, 2014 Maria Mudd Ruth

Just one of the immense old trees in the woods behind LBA Park. This big-leaf maple branch could hold a resting hobbit or two in the bed of moss and licorice ferns. Please enjoy the photo gallery below (click on the photo to advance the images) and … — Just one of the immense old trees in the woods behind LBA Park. This big-leaf maple branch could hold a resting hobbit or two in the bed of moss and licorice ferns. Please enjoy the photo gallery below (click on the photo to advance the images) and then visit the LBA Woods Park website to support the community-wide effort to save these 150 acres of woodland.

Flying from Mountaineers Books this Spring—the story of the Pigeon Guillemot—the world’s most charismatic alcid. This non-fiction natural history will be on bookshelves and available from online retailers on April 7, 2026. Click a link below to pre-order a copy now from these purveyors:

Mountaineers Books (non-profit, indie publisher based in Seattle)

Browsers Books (Olympia’s indie bookstore)

Bookshop.org (support your local bookstore)

Barnes & Noble (in the book biz since 1971)

Amazon

Other Natural History Titles by Maria Mudd Ruth…

“Compelling…engaging.” The Library Journal

“Rare insights into the trials and joys of scientific discovery.” Publishers Weekly

Read more reviews and details here: Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet

Enjoy this song by Peter Horne, "Little Bird, Little Boat, Big Ocean.” Written about the Marbled Murrelet, but the lyrics work well for the Pigeon Guillemot, too.