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Chilling new photo from the WAR ON PORTLAND!
Oregon National Guard troops deployed for trash duty in the WAR ON PORTLAND stop by Voodoo Doughnuts in preparation for the day's warrior duties!
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Challenge met!

Degree of difficulty shall be adjusted upward. 😄

#naturephotography #trailcam #squirrel #bungee #backyard
Collage of two trailcam captures showing a squirrel contemplating a corncob hanging from a bungee cord in the first frame, and having successfully jumped for dinner the squirrel is holding the cob and chowing on its dried kernals in the second frame.
September 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Happy #TACOtuesday! 🌮

#DonTaco #WeakSauce #photography #nature #landscape #volcano #MSHNVM #hiking #traillunch
Lunch with a View! Taco Bell breakfast burrito with fire sauce on the crater rim of Mt St Helens.
June 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Three more outstanding tracks from 6/1/81 follow on the album. 😊
June 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Microsoft's .NET initiative (c99-00) moved far too fast, breaking far too much.

They provided no migration path for the codebase of >6 million developers, suggesting these customers "just rewrite" hundreds billions of lines of functional code.

#MSFT flatlined for a decade.

#econsky
Microsoft (MSFT) stock price chart from 1993-2020, with Steve Ballmer's time as CEO highlighted.
June 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Where the sky's reflection in Eagle Creek was blocked, salmon could be seen returning to spawn.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Underneath #photography #nature #hiking #CRGNSA #ColumbiaRiver #Gorge #EastCoastKin
View underwater of salmon returning to spawn in Eagle Creek (Oregon).
June 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Waukeena Falls pedestrian bridge detail on a cold December day.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Underneath #Arch #icicles #frozen #waterfall #photography #hiking #EastCoastKin #nature #CRGNSA #ColumbiaRiverGorge
Icicles and other fascinating frozen formations created from the spray of a waterfall onto an overlooking stone pedestrian bridge.
May 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Hear Hear!
May 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Really hoping our local #DonTaco restaurant makes the best use of all this free promotion! 😁
Screengrab of Google results from searching for "don taco vancouver" showing a local fast food joint that needs to capitalize on the #DonTaco nickname given to 47 by Wall Street.
May 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Thank you! Dug out the zoom... Interesting, in a way, as it shows the shadow selfie of my hiking buddy too.
Zoomed view of a brocken spectre (solar glory) beside the cliff face of Coyote Wall in southwest Washington.
May 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I see what you're thinking there. I've always wanted to go explore that Government Cove too, but never made the side trip before. More incentive now!

(And the parking areas marked on the other map probably don't require a pass either? 🤔)
May 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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My favorite color combination? Maybe!

Ancestry Swedish; Thoughts of #Ukraine.

The azalea bush was more stunning than usual this year.

#photography #bloomscolling #SundayStunday #BlueSky #EastCoastKin
Blooming yellow azalea shot from below backlit by the Sun with beautiful blue skies and just a hint of white puffy clouds.
May 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Backlit Azaleas

#photography #bloomscolling
#backyard
May 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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After a recent drizzle, the #cellphone offered to isolate this #azalea in a closeup. Okay, I said, lessee whatcha got... 😃

#photography #bloomscrolling
Close-up of pink azalea bloom, with raindrops on the petals, isolated from the background with black fill.
May 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Brilliant brocken spectre with my #shadowselfie dead-center in the fog beside the cliff.

#BlueSkyArtShow #LightAndShadow #BrockenSpectre #Glory #nature #landscape #photography #hiking #CoyoteWall #ColumbiaRiverGorge
Photograph shows the cliff face of Coyote Wall, on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge, with a sea of fog below the cliff. The photographer's shadow appears centered within a brocken spectre (or solar glory) in the clouds below.
May 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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#Sunrise #shadow of South Sister on a sea of #clouds, from the #summit about 10,350 feet above sea level.

#BlueskyArtShow #LightAndShadow #photography #landscape #hiking #alpine
Shadow of South Sister, the tallest (10,358') of three adjacent volcanoes in central Oregon, on a sea of pastel colored clouds with a few horizontal ridgelines protruding.
May 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Dude. 😮‍💨
Comfy? 🤨

That's 𝘮𝘺 chair! 🫵

😆

#cellphone #photography #FurryFriday #squirrel #EastCoastKin
Squirrel sitting comfortably in an antigravity lawn chair.
May 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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5-21-74: #GratefulDead played a single song that filled an entire #LP.

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘴 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴⁣
𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴⁣
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘴, ⁣
𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬

Had been singling along to that (misheard) lyric for 52 years! 😂 Anyone else?

#musicsky #mondegreen
Album cover art for the Grateful Dead's May 21, 1974, show at Edmundson Pavilion where their tune "Playin' in the Band," clocked in around 46 minutes ended up filling an entire LP. Best freely available recording of the show here - https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-21.mtx.seamons.109887.flac16
May 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Birchbark

#BlueSkyArtShow #texture #birch #bark #AutumnLeaves #photography #nature #NorthShore #hiking #SHT #SuperiorHikingTrail
Symetrical patterns of light and texture on a birch tree's bark.
May 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Up North!

#BlueSkyArtShow #texture #forest #AutumnLeaves #photography #nature #NorthShore #hiking #SHT #SuperiorHikingTrail
Colorful hardwood forest in October along the Superior Hiking Trail on the Oberg Loop along the North Shore of Lake Superior.
May 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Heads-up! Dog in tall grass!

The #rabbit and I were both 😆 at dog <10' away totally unaware what he was frantically searching for was busy watching him do so! Rabbit stood there for minutes, allowing photos galore, between chuckles.

#photography #cellphone #backyardwildlife #nature #EastCoastKin
Rabbit standing tall as it can, on his back feet only, hoping to see better into the tall grass for the dog that is cluelessly looking for him nearby.
May 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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NASA just shared this photo of it. 😀
Photo of May's full Moon from orbit around around Earth.
May 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"What He Said" ⓘ

Loudly. Proudly. Without Apology.

[ ⓘ despite the "quote" being AI-generated 🙃
www.snopes.com/fact-check/p... ]
Meme created with AI-generated text showing what many wish the new Pope had said about wokeness. Snopes link in post provides full text.
May 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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#BlueSkyMonday + #MountainMonday = 😎

Wispy clouds swirl off the icy summit of Oregon's 3rd tallest #volcano, Mt Jefferson.

#photography #MtJefferson #JeffersonPark #nature #landscape #clouds
Wispy clouds swirl off the icy summit of Oregon's 3rd tallest volcano, Mt Jefferson.
May 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Sunday #Stunday #Sunset

From 10,300 ft above sea level, in the #crater of Oregon's South Sister, the sun sets above the wildfires below while the air is clean and crisp up here. Absolutely stunning!

#photography #nature #landscape #alpine #volcano #hiking
Photograph of the sun setting from the crater of Oregon's South Sister on a day with considerable smoke at lower levels. The sky is ablaze and brilliant yellows and oranges while the crater walls fade to black.
May 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM