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**Christina Anne Hawthorne** @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange · 16h

Christina Anne Hawthorne @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

Good day!

I found it, the line between winter & spring.

For me, after so many days writing around other tasks, I have a day of peace for writing, though adversity has made me insanely productive.

My last hike was my longest in months, my legs eager to tackle more next week. Bring it on.

Be everwell.

An image that spans three environments. On the far left is a calm river. At center is a wide band of snow and ice. To the right is bare dirt, an area that’s flooded when the river is higher.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

**Morf** @raygun.photo@pixelfed.social · 1d

Morf @raygun.photo@pixelfed.social

Log jumping

#PNW #PacificNorthwest #NaturePhotography #GetOutside #StayWild #OptOutside #WildernessCulture #LiveAuthentic #ExplorePNW #OutdoorLife #Canon

#canon

**cohan** @cohanf@mastodon.online · 1d

cohan @cohanf@mastodon.online

I mentioned a couple of days ago that we had a #weather forecast for #rain + #snow possibly quite a bit. It stayed rain longer than forecast, finally going white (for a short time) late his morning; stopped for now, but still a possibility of 10-20cm through tomorrow night. Yesterday afternoon when it was just wet / kinda dark I took a short walk on the acreage- I like the #forest best when it's wet! #mosstodon #GoOutsideForMe #GetOutside #Alberta #Canada #SolaceInNature #nature #BorealForest

We see part of the bottom of a balsam poplar tree trunk in upper left, leaning away out of frame. It is medium/dark grey, deeply furrowed vertically and covered in a thin layer of green moss and lichens in silver-green. The base of one large root shows at the left of the trunk and extends toward the lower left of the image, dividing the frame nearly in half, diagonally. The ground is covered with grey to red-brown fallen leaves from last year with a few small clumps of dried grass and fallen dark twigs here and there. Everything is wet dark. We don't see the root itself after the first foot or so away from the trunk, but we can tell where it is just below the surface, since the shallow or lacking soil on top of it has meant nothing is growing there except moss.The moss is bright to reddish green, with a generous sprinkling of dry red spruce needles. It rises just above the leaf litter in irregular clumps and blobs, sometimes touching, some with gaps, higher near the trunk, lower farther away as the root decreases in size/height.

**CaledonMoneypit** @paulbusch@mstdn.ca · 1d

CaledonMoneypit @paulbusch@mstdn.ca

After almost 2 months, Harley and I were finally able to access the trails near our house. It was only a 2.5 km walk today, and the weather was awesome, 5°C and sunny with no wind. There is still a bit of snow on the trail and it's deeper in the woods.

#DogsOfMastadon #Hiking #GetOutside

**Christina Anne Hawthorne** @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange · 1d

Christina Anne Hawthorne @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

#Today 27

Good day!

I took the Milwaukee Trail to explore the wild areas along the river across from downtown.

Nostalgia on my part? No, sorrow.

While our skyline grows, these areas decay. There’s neglect, restrictive fencing popping up, & expanding homeless encampments.

All thanks to our gov’t-slashing Republican governor.

5.1 sad miles.

Be everwell.

A gigantic iron sculpture of a hunched man made from the remains of the refinery that once stood where there’s now a park, a park created in 2014, the same year I moved here. Around it are open spaces, the grass still brown, the sculpture in silhouette, the sun behind one leg. In the distance are mountains, also largely in silhouette. The sky is mostly clear, thin clouds spreading from behind the mountains.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

**Christina Anne Hawthorne** @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange · 2d

Christina Anne Hawthorne @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

#Today 26

Good day!

Shortly, I’ll head east on the Milwaukee Trail for a hike along the river.

Over the next month, I’ll extend that to include Hellgate Canyon, Mt. Sentinel, & Pattee Canyon. Then, I’ll expand my horizons again.

Later, I’ll edit a chapter & reach 67% on Book3. Milestones, I note them all!

Be everwell.

From January 2025. A view along the edge of a river that's low in the winter, rocks along its banks exposed and covered with snow. Higher on the banks, the snow deepens, grass poking out.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

**JHaworth** @jhaworth@mindly.social · 3d

JHaworth @jhaworth@mindly.social

65° days demand an after work run on the beach!

A happy cinnamon colored dog smiling as he splashes down the beach with his boy.

#GetOutside #DogsOfMastodon #ClamBeach

**cohan** @cohanf@mastodon.online · 3d

cohan @cohanf@mastodon.online

I took #photos on #MacroMonday but just getting some posted today! How about #TextureTuesday ? or #TwiggyTuesday #TranquilTuesday
These are Aspen Populus tremuloides catkins just beginning to emerge.
#nature #Alberta #Canada #GetOutside #GoOutsideForMe #BorealForest #spring #winter #sprinter

Overcast day, subtle light. Fuzzy silvery grey catkins beginning to emerge brush-like from their sticky red brown bud casings. Similar to pussywillows but with longer hairs (and they will stretch out *much* more as they emerge fully). Several catkins cluster at the tip of an upright twig, a couple more blurred in the background. Farther back light coloured aspen trunks form a blurred vertical abstract pattern with the shadowed areas between.

**slskier1988** @slskier1988@pixelfed.social · 3d

**Tim Stanton** @TimKStanton@mstdn.social · 3d

Tim Stanton @TimKStanton@mstdn.social

No free shuttle for me! On days like today when my car is getting worked on, I turn it into a #cycling adventure. After driving to the mechanic with my bike on the back of the car, I cycle home taking a very scenic route. Then return by bike to pick up my car. Do this year ‘round, rain or shine (and it is shining bright today! ). #ocean #beach #nature

I’m
#SeaScape #sea #NaturePhotography #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #GetOutside #exercise

Photo of bicycle parked on a sidewalk at the edge of a harbor that connects to the ocean. Blue sky overhead with puffy white clouds. Rocky jetty and land mass can be seen on far side of harbor.

**Christina Anne Hawthorne** @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange · 3d

Christina Anne Hawthorne @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

#Today 25

Good day!

On my walk yesterday in the rain, I solved a problem in a key chapter & came up with a handful of blogging ideas.

I’ll draft one of those today.

The edit is 64% done. This was drafted 8-years ago with some light editing since. It’s kinda rough. But not when I’m done.

Be everwell.

From January. Grass and brush poke out from beneath the snow. The view looks through bare trees, a wide gap at center. In the distance are snow covered mountains, snow covered grass facing south, forest facing north. The sky is clear, except over the mountains.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 8. This giant boulder seems eerily prescient, like something out of a fantasy novel. Perhaps someone (or some thing) threw it off the cliff at the last people who passed this way.
Anyway, for more about how this landscape formed, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
8/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a path through a wide valley. Cliffs in the distance. In the foreground are tall
Gray-green sage brush plants. In the middle distance is a huge rock outcropping, jagged and mean looking, almost shaped like a cylinder perched on a 35 degree angle.

Another view of the strange rock, which is about 5 meters across, and the cliff beyond, which is a few hundred meters away and about fifty meters high.

A closer view of the jagged boulder which looks slightly metallic, like a meteorite or something, perched at an improbable angle on the ground. It looks as if it could fall over any time.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 7. You can't go wrong with waterfalls and columnar basalt. Orange lichen on rabbit brush. Also does anyone recognize these giant reeds? Is this invasive pampas grass or something native? I don't know many of the plants here at all. 7/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

A small waterfall seen from the side. It's plunging over a small cliff made from the hexagonal columns of stone seen in previous posts.

A closer view of the water plunging over the cliff and the curious hexagonal rock formations on either side of it.

A closeup of a rabbit (sage) brush bush showing the woody internal parts of the plant, which are twisted and gnarled. It is covered in orangish green lichen, like a coarse orange powder all over the wood.

Some very tall reed grass growing in a wet spot in the valley beneath a cliff. The reeds have large dramatic feathery seed heads and are higher than a person.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 6. Small video: turn the sound up. It's frog breeding season in the still water of the coulee lakes, and they're going crazy. Some spring birds there too. 6/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 5. Here's some closeups of the main rock attraction here: columnar basalt, a result of ancient lava flows (way more ancient than the lakes). I keep wondering where all this lava came from-- the nearest existant volcano is probably Mt Rainier, over 130km away. 5/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

A rock formation, part of a cliff. The rocks seem to be divided into vertical hexagonal pillars all packed closely together a bit like organ pipes. These are quite weathered and have lots of horizontal chips or cracks in them.

Another columnar basalt cliff. The lower part is a debris pile, the middle part is a
Series of hexagonal pillars all packed together, and then more chaotic, weathered rock layers above that.

Another dramatic cliff similar to the others but even more extensive. The commons march along for 800 meters or more from left to right. Tall yellow grass in the foreground, and shredded up rain clouds overhead show blue between them.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 4. This is a state park. Strangely, the trails aren't very well marked and in order to see all the good parts you have to drive round the outside to a couple different trailheads. But on a weekday in March, it's blissfully quiet and empty. I saw only maybe 6 people all day. 4/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a valley with a cliff on the left. The vegetation is gray-green sage brush and some reddish willow twigs without any leaves in the middle distance. The cliffs are reddish with lighter color splotches. The sun from
Behind lights the cliffs dramatically. Moody dark skies overhead.

Another view of a path through a broad valley with cliffs in deep shadow on either side. The sort of the path is lit by the late afternoon sun behind you and is a bright orangish gold color. The tall yellow grass and sagebrush are lit dramatically as well. Overhead the storm clouds recede away from the viewer.

Another view of a broad valley, this time looking the other way toward the west. A massive cloud formation like a sidewalk recedes into the distance, flanked by blue sky on either side. The sun lights up the distant cliffs.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 3. This place is called "Ancient Lakes" and it's right by "The Gorge" amphitheater (WA people will know this place for its outdoor concerts). Ironically this system of coulees (canyon like flood channels) was formed by post-Ice Age glacial runoff, which in geological time isn't ancient at all-- it's like the day before yesterday. 3/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

View along the shore of one of the lakes mentioned in the post. The right hand side is a 45 degree angle debris pile, loose basaltic boulders and flakes, reddish in color. The lake is on the left. Around the edge of the water the rocks are covered in a white crusty mineral buildup which contracts intensely with the other rocks. The moody blue and coudy sky is reflected in the water.

Wide view of another lake with a spectacular cloud formation like a long tube running overhead into the distance. The lake has tiny ducks visible in the distance. The foreground is dried grass, basalt boulders, and gray-green rabbit (sage) brush.

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**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

Hiking Ancient Lakes part 2. The Columbia Gorge (which has the Columbia River running through it) is kind of unimaginably huge. The snow capped ridges in the distance are like 50km away and the river itself is beyond the nearer cliffs and lakes, but before the snowy ridges, hidden in a literal gorge some 500(?) meters below any of the ground you see here. 2/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a valley with the same brushy open vegetation, a small, still lake in it, and two cliffs beyond it. There is a gap between the cliffs through which one can see very distant snow covered ridges. Moody clouds swirl overhead.

Another view of the same valley with the lake more visible. The cliff on the right has an impressive pike of rubble at its foot forming a kind of ramp partway up it.

**Eugene Parnell** @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social · 3d

Eugene Parnell @eugeneparnell@mstdn.social

First hiking thread of 2025. This is the time of year that those of us in the Puget Sound region get tired of the rain, and after a very waterlogged weekend, I struck out East, across the Cascades, to the Columbia Gorge. 1/8
#PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors

Wide view of a dry landscape with steep cliffs and valleys. The valley floors are all covered in yellow grass and greenish sage brush plants. The cliffs have vertical clefts and piles of scree at the bottom. A lake is visible in the valley is n the distance. The sky overhead is moody.

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**raresites** @raresites@mastodon.online · 4d

raresites @raresites@mastodon.online

#NoTarrifsOnNature #Sustainability #SaveThePlanet #ClimateAction #WildlifeConservation #GetOutside #ConnectWithNature #WaterlooRegion #Cambridge #Kitchener #Waterloo #Wilmot #Woolwich #Wellesley #NorthDumfries #ExploreWR #WRAwesome

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