Taking the long way down the mountain through an old growth hemlock forest. The trees here are immense, 150+feet high. Footsteps are muffled by the forest duff and it’s nearly silent except for woodpeckers tapping away.
9/x EOT

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First image: mountain ash, Sorbus sitchensis, in its fall color already. 2 and 3: when a hemlock tree rots away, the cores from its branches are left behind like fossils.
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Image 1: ancient hemlocks with the peak behind. Everything here is ancient and takes forever to grow. Image 2: the suspension bridge is out in place every July by the park service and taken down in September. The rest of the year the torrent coming off the glacier is too wide to cross. 3: the historic fire lookout of Oark Butte, a popular view point. 4: view of Baker Peak from the fire lookout.
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First two images: pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) forms large blankets in the rocky parts of the meadows. It’s a kind of aster or daisy. Second two images are purple monkey flower (Mimulus lewisii), another wildflower that’s viable in the garden.
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Corn lily on the left (Veratrum viride) looming a bit tattered this late in the season. On the right: does anyone know this plant? I’ve seen it before but can’t place it. Growing on a rocky stream side in part sun at about 5000 ft. It’s lovely.
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Last weekend I had a chance to visit the Mt Baker Wilderness in Washington’s North Cascades. Follow along for a flora-heavy photo thread about Washington’s third highest peak.
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Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana) is a spring and fall migrant seen on the Washington coast and occasionally in Puget Sound. I found this one while kayaking in the San Juan Islands a few years ago. Now that it's September, I'll be looking for these seasonal visitors again. They have a comical bouncy walk as they forage!

Me: hold still while I take a photo.
Bird: I'm just gonna take a nap here on these comfy barnacles.

#shorebirds #PNW #birds #BirdPhotography #nature #BridsOfMastodon

Western Trumpet Honeysuckle berries cheerfully perched on the side of the Olympic Discovery Trail near Blyn, WA.
#bloomscrolling #pnw #odt

NEW: WA Gov. Inslee & former Gov. Gregoire endorse Bob Ferguson for governor (via @kcts9) https://crosscut.com/briefs/2023/09/inslee-gregoire-endorse-bob-ferguson-washington-governor #politics #seattle #pnw

friends, family, and alumni gathered at Milwaukie high school last night to remember their assistant track and football coach, Roland Aumueller. He was just 59 when it's believed he suffered a heart attack after a football game at Parkrose on Friday night.
read more about the vigil & mental health resources here:
https://www.kgw.com/article/sports/high-school/milwaukie-coach-dies-after-football-game/283-0d5a44b7-c776-4497-9520-482c0f8b0f83

#portland #pdx #pnw #news #local #kgw #coach #football

The family of Danielle Abrahams, who was killed on august 3 by a car that crashed through her house, want the woman responsible to own up to her actions. Police say they think she was driving under the influence at the time of the crash, and was arrested for vehicular homicide and DUI.
more details/context here:
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/vancouver/vancouver-woman-killed-car-crash-home-memorial/283-fb19715b-ecf1-4f5a-9d41-019e2286e024

#portland #pdx #vancouver #Washington #police #pnw #local #news #kgw

Sowbread, Cyclamen hederifolium, is native from southern France to western Turkey, Mediterranean islands, farther north in Europe and in the Pacific Northwest.

In the wild flowers appear well before the foliage (seen here). Leaves resemble Hedera ivy leaves and so the plant is commonly called the ivy-leaved cyclamen.

#RhodyGarden

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The engineering feat that is known as Cascade Locks (Oregon, 2023)

Completed over a 20+ year span in the last half of the 19th century to allow ships passage through a shallow part of the Columbia River. The constructed island is known as Thunder Island. The bridge is Bridge of the Gods

#photography #fotografie #fotografia #photographie #architecture #pnw #history #landscape

@patl I get that. I loved #Mariners and #Sounders convos over there, but I’m finding more and more of my #pnw sports people. And some of the sports journalists have bots so I can get the latest on injuries, news, etc.

Before sunset #pnw #wawx #sky #lookup

Part 2 of the milk way timelapse from Monday at Cape Blanco. I used my widest lens to get the waves and ships in frame. You can notice the shift to blue/cooler tones which I believe is due to the moon rising out of the frame. #oregoncoast #pnw #ontheroad #astrophotography

Hmm, I wonder why people stopped “choosing” it in 1928. Rub salt in our wounds, why don’t you, Snoqualmie Railway Depot. #seattle #pnw #WashingtonState #urbanism #trains #PublicTransport

Dusty spider webs in the swordferns. That's how arid it's been this summer in the #PNW. They'll need to hang in there for a few more weeks before we get any real rain. #droughtconcerns #nativeplantgardening

Is The Mountain Out? Yes (in Sumner), but maybe not for long.

It’s kind of wearing a hat, but the hat is weird. Kind of thin and poofy. There are a lot of clouds out today, so ymmv.

#MountRainier #Tahoma #IsTheMountainOut #wawx #PNW

#SilentSunday
Red Mountain near Snoqualmie Pass. #hiking #pnw