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💙 in a red county of a blue state. Retired and enjoying hiking, photography, cooking, and crafts. Two 🐈 and a standard 🐩 Planning jaunts around the PNW.
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One more of Upper Lewis River Falls for #WaterfallWednesday and, from the other end of the hike, Lower Lewis River Falls. #PNW 📷🥾🌅

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Just a House Sparrow (Passer domesticus,) but a good provider for her young. Not sure what's on the menu, looks like a couple of winged insects... perhaps crane flies? 🤔 #birds 📷🪶🌿

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Big Bird #TwoSpeciesTuesday, a Mallard Duck and an American White Pelican. #birds #photography 📷🪶😁🦆

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#BlueskyMonday Nothing to see here… The crab spider is *totally* camouflaged on the petal of a Sugar Blues bearded iris. 💯 📷💙🕷️🌿

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWacky A steampunk cow, to my eye, created by Lewiston artist John Bergen by welding together parts of local agricultural equipment. Found at the Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown, WA. 📷🐄🐮

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#MountainMonday #BlueskyMonday Mount Saint Helens from the Hummocks Trail this morning. #PNW 📷🥾🗻

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#Underneath the rocky bluffs, beside the trail where the water seeps and the maidenhair ferns grow. #BlueSkyArtShow #Hiking #PNW 📷🥾🪨🌿

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Upper Lewis River Falls, a view from below the falls where we stopped to have lunch Friday. Located in Gifford Pinchot National Forest. #StunDay #PNW 📷🥾🌿

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The Upper Lewis River Falls in full flow Friday. Located within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, it’s an 8.8 mile round trip hike with three large waterfalls. #StunDay #PNW 📷🥾🌿

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A shaded forest hike on the Lewis River Falls Trail had a variety of white flowers this week. Shown are the Columbia Windflower (Anemone deltoidea) and Western Bunchberry (Cornus unalaschkensis) #Wildflowers #PNW #BloomScrolling 📷🥾🌿

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Under the Devil’s Punchbowl 😈🥊🥣 Near Otter Rock on the central Oregon coast. Looking forward to traveling down there next month during low tides. #BlueSkyArtShow #Underneath 📷🪨🥾🌊

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Hookedspur Violets (Viola adunca) seen at Fieids Spring State Park earlier this month. #Photography #BloomScrolling #Flowers #smArtist #Violet 📷💜🌿

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It rained yesterday, and wasn’t that a lovely thing? Blue Iris covered with raindrops. #FlowersonFriday 📷💙🌿

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#ForestFriday An iPhone snap of the forest walk at Swofford Pond near Mossyrock Washington Happy Friday y’all 🙂 📷🥾🌳

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Nephew caught me rockin’ out on the trail to Lena Lake yesterday. Olympic Peninsula near Hoodsport WA #HumansofBluesky #PNW 📷🥾🪨

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Striped Coralroot orchid (Corallorhiza striata) is a species of orchid that relies on the fungus among us. (Shout out to my high school science teacher.😁) It lives in pine and mixed coniferous forests, and it obtains its nutrients from fungi via parasitism. #MayBlooms #orchid 📷🌿🩷

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Western Meadow-rue, female flowers. Thalictrum occidentale is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family. It was growing profusely along the trails at Fields Spring State Park in SE Washington. #MayBlooms #Delicate # Wildflowers #PNW 📷🩷🌿

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The diminutive Fairy Slipper orchid (Calypso bulbosa) from a hike this past week. #SmArtist #Orchid #MayBlooms #Delicate #Wildflowers #PNW 📷🩷🌿

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The Pacific Rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum) is a native flower that is the state flower of Washington. Seen hiking today to Lower Lena Lake on the Olympic Pennisula near Lilliwaup, Washington. #MayBlooms #Pink 📷🌺🌿

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Scouler's Corydalis (Corydalis scouleri) is a graceful shade-loving herbaceous perennial in moist to boggy areas. The hollow stems sport delicate pinnate leaves reminiscent of ferns. The narrow flowers are rose to purple and spurred; they bloom from April to May. #MayBlooms #pink 📷🌸🌿

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Goat Creek Falls or Cathedral Falls near Glenoma, Washington. Happy #WaterfallWednesday. 📷🥾🌊

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This snail has quite bright colors; all the rest on the path had me asking, "Prithee, Snail, why so pale?" 😆 Which I really thought was a thing - a quote from a poem. (Nope.) Oregon Forestsnail (Allogona Townsendiana) #snail 📷🐌🌿 [See Why So Pale And Wan, Fond Lover? Poem by Sir John Suckling]

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Newbie with a new bee 🐝 Could this be a bicolored striped-sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens?) It was hanging out at the Salkum Timberland Library garden in Salkum WA. #Pollinators #Invertebrates #Gardening #Macrophotography 📷🐝🌿📚

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