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First snow ❄️ sighting on my walk: Mt. Si in #NorthBend, just east of #Seattle.

Winter is coming!

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A mountain, mostly trees but with a small snowcapped peak. In the foreground a grass field surrounded by the trees of fall. Light clouds with a deep blue sky.
October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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On my walk this morning in the foothills of the Cascades, I’m picking what may be the last ripe blackberry of the season.

Goodbye lovely blackberry; hello autumn.

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A thumb and index finger pinching towards a ripe blackberry next to some dried out blackberries and an unripe red blackberry foliage is in the background
September 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A “think-bench at the end of my “think-walk” this morning.

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A black-and-white photo of a dock, extending out midway into a lake with a small rise in the distance with fog and the foreground on the right there is a bush. The waves of the water demonstrate a slight wind.
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Look! Someone left me a little leaf and rock sculpture on my favorite bench on my favorite walk.

And now?

I am photographing it and memorializing it here. (I doubt the sculptor thought anyone would do that.)

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The arm of a wooden bench on it are two leaves, a twig, and a rock. Pass this is gravel. The scene certainly looks created not random.
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Seen on my think-walk yesterday!

A little patch of my favorite grass:

Bamboo!

(Yes, it’s a grass 🤓)

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Bamboo stalks with a brick wall behind it)
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Walks at different times of the day seem to have different creative tones.

For me, midmorning walks—like this morning in North Bend, WA—are my favorite time to digitally dictate non-fiction content.

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A photo of a large park with a winding trail, moving from the foreground to the background behind this is arise of a mountain and partial shade from the rising sun off to the side of green foliage, and to the right is flat grassland with a small farmhouse in the background
May 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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My morning walk in #Seattle.

Although I usually prefer nature walks, city walks do have their own special vibe!

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A view of a dock leading out into the water on a partially cloudy day with a somewhat cool appearance in the foreground is a concrete staircase and walkway in the background is a low hill, which is actually West Seattle.
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Gray mornings are great times to walk; then again, all mornings are great times to walk! 😉

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Foreground a concrete wall, behind it Puget Sound, with some hills and a just barely visible space needle in the distance. A gray, cloudy sky.
September 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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On my morning #ThinkWalk I’ll often listen to podcasts on the business of #writing. When I run across a jewel 💎 of info, I’ll note it down at my favorite bench for later review. 🤓

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A wooden park bench under a red cedar tree with a set of hiking poles, leaning against the center of the bench, extending out into a pathway in the background we see a splash of light in the forest suggestive of a cool summer morning.
August 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I saw this tractor 🚜 through the morning fog on my walk this morning.

Tractors bring out the little boy in me!

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A tractor scene in a field with a streak of fog behind it, some scattered trees and rising mountain. There’s a fence over to the left. The scene has a feel of early morning.
August 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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My daily extended metaphor 😉:

My walk this morning (see below) is to my brain what pencil sharpeners are to a pencil.

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Grass field in the foreground with a thin layer of fog in the background. Above this is a rising mountain slope and mostly blue sky.
September 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM