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Menestune

@menestune.bsky.social

On the theme of "Nicer Days" as we try to keep our heads above water in the drenched Pacific NW. A flower bonanza near the slopes of Mt Rainier.

#nature #love #majestic #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #PNW #photography #nokings #joy #WA #meadow
#mountains #goodmorning #bluesky #hiking #floods

Trail pathway lined on both sides with abundant wildflowers. The path leads away toward a meadow with lots of evergreen trees and eventually to the rising mountain on the horizon.

December 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM

Chip

@chipgr.bsky.social

A quiet fall morning on the farm. So peaceful this time of the day.
Hope you can get outside today
Nature photo day 332
#nature #photography #eastcoastkin #fog #MtHood #landscape #photographersofbluesky #pnw #peace #morning #clouds

December 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM

Tommy Farnsworth -- tf PhotoScapes

@tommyfarnsworth.com

Wispy clouds.

#clouds #edmonds #washington #pnw #water #landscape #photography

December 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Raven Ninjato

@raven-ninjato.bsky.social

Japanese Maple in lingering Fall colors. My back feels this way sometimes…. #photography #landscape #tree #garden #pnw #wa #seattle #japanesegarden obligatory gnarled maple in fall photo taken in the Seattle Japanese Garden. No photographer can resist the siren call

December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Jonathon E. Kraft Photography

@kraftphotography.bsky.social

WATERFALL WEDNESDAY #silverfalls #pnw #portlandoregon #oregon #nature #travel #landscape #landscapephotography #photo #photography #outdoors #pdx #bluesky #moody #longexposure #waterfall #waterfalls #autumn #Fall #pacificnorthwest #travelphotography #naturephotography #naturelovers #landcapephoto

Lower South Falls at Silver Falls State Park in Oregon showing a long exposure waterfall in autumn.

December 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Jenifer

@jeniferlecount.bsky.social

#bambi came to visit.

#winterwonderland #snow #nature #pnw #photography #deer #landscape #pnwlife #pacificnorthwest #upperleftpnw

December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM

MarkGlad

@markglad.bsky.social

Rolling Hills. Olympus Infinity Zoom 80 | Kodak 400.

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #filmphotography #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #analog #pnw

December 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM

Menestune

@menestune.bsky.social

Much of the Pacific Northwest is under water today, so here's a pic of Mt Rainier on a drier day.

#nature #love #majestic #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #PNW #photography #nokings #joy #WA #meadow
#mountains #goodmorning #bluesky #hiking

Alpine meadow with grassy areas and lots of evergreen trees. On the left half of the pic, in back, is a towering view of snow-covered Mt Rainier. The sky is perfectly blue.

December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Chip

@chipgr.bsky.social

The sound, the spray, the visual and so much power. Waterfalls are truly amazing.
Hope today is a good one for you.
Nature photo day 331
#nature #photography #eastcoastkin #waterfallWednesday #PNW #peace #photographersofbluesky #landscape #hiking

December 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM

Mount St. Helens in 1980 | #MSH45

@mountsthelens1980.bsky.social

#MSH45 | Watercolors
One of the most powerful “before and afters” of Mount St. Helens isn’t a photo at all, it’s this watercolor.

Legendary PNW mountaineer Dee Molenaar painted the graceful pre-1980 cone and Spirit Lake basin alongside the torn-open crater and devastated landscape that followed.

Watercolor painting with two aerial views of Mount St. Helens. At upper right, the pre-1980 snowcapped cone rises above green, forested ridges and a blue Spirit Lake. Filling most of the image, the post-eruption scene shows a low, blasted crater, brown landslide hummocks, and a dark, debris-filled lake.

Dee Molenaar / U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM

Sleepy Cat Natives

@sleepycatnatives.bsky.social

Need more incentives to allow yourself the luxury of lazy gardening? More reasons to allow a little messy into your Winter landscape?

#nature #nativegardening #nativeplants #PNW #gardening #birds #wildlife #birding #flowers #wintergarden #gardensky

These adorable California quail have been drawn to our front yard by the promise of a seed banquet offered by the Clarkia and Lupine seed heads that still litter the landscape!

This group of California Quail is feasting on Elegant Tarweed seeds fallen from the dead stocks in the foreground.

The California Quail covey that visited us this afternoon feasted for over an hour on seeds from Clarkia, CA Poppies, Blue Gilia, Riverbank Lupine, Elegant Tarweed, Oregon Sunshine, Golden Rod, Penstemon, and Seaside Daisy. None of these plants were pruned for the end of the year, instead left to feed the birds and give cover to next year's pollinators!

December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Menestune

@menestune.bsky.social

Devil's Punch Bowl, Oregon, from the inside. This can only be done at very low tide. Otherwise, you're swept into the "punch".

#nature #marinelife #ocean #PNW #zen #love #goodmorning #photography #eastcoastkin #nokings #bluesky #scape #landscape #oregoncoast

Scene on a sandy beach with a large rock formation all around - somewhat like an amphitheater. The rock walls are sand and rust colored. There are large holes/doorways, through which you can see the ocean.

December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM

Menestune

@menestune.bsky.social

Rattlesnake Lake, WA. Some of the recent film "Train Dreams" was filmed here (no rattlesnakes, though). #nature #love #majestic #lake #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #PNW #photography #nokings #joy #WA #mountains #reflection #bluesky #autumn

Low level lake bed in mountain range. Many dead tree stumps from logging years ago. The far side of the lake is lined with green and autumn colored trees that are reflected in the calm lake.

December 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM

☁️Now🤖Breezing💨

@nowbreezing.ntw.app

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Emoji Legend
💨x# | "Increased Trending Rate" for a Word (meaningful value; "💨x8 - burger" will mean "burger" is trending at 8 times its own normal rate for this time of day)
🔓 | "Unlocked" Ongoing Emergency Word (such words are not weighted down by their own previous usage; their *ongoing* increased usage--weeks, months, years--would otherwise move them down the list.)

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⚠️💨# | "Trend Strength Rating"
⚠️🌀💨 | "Trend Strength Rating" (see above)
⚠️🌀 CAT. # | [same; "CAT." = Category, like hurricane]
💬# | 10min Post Count
🆎# | 10min Word Count
🙂# | 10min Emoji Count

December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM

Jeremy Vohwinkle

@jeremyvoh.bsky.social

I'm sure I've said it before, but I love rocks. Here are some rocks on rocks for #RockinTuesday

#photography #rocks #mountains #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #pnw #washington

A wide rocky plateau under thick gray clouds. The ground is a scatter of pale stone with small patches of bright green plants. Dark evergreens rise along the mid frame. Snow streaks the distant mountain peaks, which fade softly into the low light of the stormy sky.

December 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM

Vox 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

@voxrox.bsky.social

#BlueskyArtShow
#MountainMonday

Mt. Rainier as viewed from the Naches Loop in Washington State. #PNW

#Landscape
#Mountains #Nature
#WestCoastKin
#Photography
#ArtOfPhotography
09.2024 #Autumn

A color photo of Mt. Rainier in Washington State during autumn of 2024. The mountain has snow and there's trees & a small pond of water at it's base.
📷 Erwin Buske

December 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM

Raven Ninjato

@raven-ninjato.bsky.social

Sunset light, early winter on Mt Rainier. Mt Rainier National Park, WA #photography #landscape #sunset #pnw #wa #rainier #nationalpark #eastcoastkin #winter

December 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD

@greenleejw.bsky.social

Fantasy subway maps aren't your thing? Fine...fine.

But wait...Christmas can be about more than subway maps!

I also have a set of Utah and PNW landscape drawings for sale. You can purchase them as prints or on things like coffee mugs! What variety!
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...

A greyscale drawing of Delicate Arch in Utah.The foreground and the arch are in black. The background is done in increasingly lighter shades of gray. There are whispers of clouds in the sky.

A greyscale drawing of Druid Arch in Utah.The foreground and the arch are in black. The sky is white, and is streaked with grey clouds.

Drawing of a mountain and mountain lake. The mountain is reflected in the lake. There are pine trees all around the lake, also reflected. The mountain is drawn in abstract black shapes and lines, and the trees are done in different shades of grey. The lake seems very still, as if it is holding its breath.

Black, white, and grey drawing of the sun moving westward over the outlines of mountains. A lake spreads out at the base the mountains. Grey strips of clouds cut across the sun and sky like bits of kitten-torn tissue.

December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM

Tory Franklin

@toryfranklin.bsky.social

Opening day at the Sound Transit Star Lake station. I co designed this platform glass with my sibling Eroyn Franklin. Each of the compositions is 10’ tall by 45’

Gather was created by Tory and Eroyn Franklin 2019-2025 A colorful landscape of native PNW medicinal and edible plants and patterns of global food plants. This light rail station platform is digitally printed with ceramic frit ink that is fused to the panes of glass. This section has a composition of blues and yellows with pops of pink and green

December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM

Erin Hanson

@erinhansonartist.bsky.social

Fresh off the Easel!

I used to drive by this hazelnut farm every day. The winter light is so special.

Hazelnuts in Snow
Original Oil Painting
by Erin Hanson, 2025
24 x 36 in

www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/ha...
#treepeople #sciart #dailyart #oilpainter🎨 #art #winter #oregon #filberts #pnw #nature