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Melody Wainscott
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botany | toxicology | literature
funga • flora • fauna
i spend time in old growth forests
co-authored pubs in botany, toxicology
choose kindness ☺️
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#PNW 🌲🦉📚🫐
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Wild fire in rainy skies for a brief moment yesterday before night set in.

235 degrees SW

#Scape #Seascape #Sunset #PugetSound #Seattle #LandscapePhotography
The sky seems to be on fire behind dense clouds that mimic smoke over Puget Sound. Waters reflect orange. Foreground is a coastal neighborhood of mostly multi-storied flat roofed homes.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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From today’s hike:
Passifloracaceae Family
passionflower
I grew up in a wild tangle of them on the Gulf Coast long ago. Always amazed to find them here in the PNW.

#Bloomscrolling #Stunday #PNW
One flower with white sepals and petals, variegated corona filaments of purple, white and maroon, and yellow centers with four large yellow anthers and 3 maroon pistils. Background is green elongated leaves.
July 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The pinks and ambers of evening settling in are a call to rest.

#Scape #Landscape #Seascape #Photography #OlympicPeninsula #Mountains #PugetSound #Seattle #PNW #ShotOnIphone
A line of dark trees and rooftops frames an amber lighted street and glowing homes resting on the shores of saltwater. Pinpoints of lighted homes and a ferry shine on the distant island. The outline of shadowy mountain peaks above the scene contrasts with a fading pink sunset that was brilliant just moments before.
July 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Landscape is not passive.

From 2016, Nevada

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#BlueSkyMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #Landscape #Photography
Dark land topography is wavy, almost like an ocean. Above are blurry pink clouds with streaks of blue sky. There is a sense of motion because the shot was captured while riding in a car.
July 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Low tide reveals these beautiful anemone neighbors waiting patiently for the return of saltwater. 🌊💧💦

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#Wildlife #Photography #Anemone #ColorADay #OrangeSun #PugetSound #Seattle #PNW
Three large anemones attached to a rock are weighed down by gravity while the tide is out. Tendrils are visible from their sack body forms. They are orange, yellow and beige.
July 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Good morning, BlueSky. 🩷🦋
Morning has broken.

330 degrees NW

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#Stunday #Seascape #Landscape #Photography #Seattle #PugetSound #PNW #Sunrise
Beginning at the bottom layer: an evergreen tree line soft gray water dark islands and mountaintops clouds layered with pinks and blues
July 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Daisies, hydrangeas, and hollyhocks basking in a sunny garden next to the butter yellow porch of an island coffee house…sleepy vibes ✨💤

July 2016

#BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze #BloomScrolling #Photography #OrcasIsland #EastSound #PNW
Daisies, hydrangeas, and hollyhocks basking in a sunny garden next to a butter yellow porch of an island coffee house.
July 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Sunset last night
270 degrees W
Thrilling!

#Scape #Landscape #Seascape #Photography #PugetSound #PNW #OlympicPeninsula
Foreground is a darkening patio of flagstones and low growing herbaceous hedge with evergreen treetops rising above from the trees growing downslope. A slice of Puget Sound appears above with a thin line of dark islands and mountaintops. A delicious orange layer of sunset and glow sits above with clear blue sky on top deepening as night descends.
July 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Sunset and Smoke

4 July, 2023

#Landscape #Seascape #Photography #OlympicPeninsula #Seattle #PNW
A brilliant orange sunset tinged with gray smoke looks foreboding over mountain peaks and smooth sea.
July 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Cape Foulweather on the Central Oregon Coast was named by Captain James Cook. On his 3rd voyage he sighted N. America & made his landfall here, during an awful storm. Author Barry Lopez came here often to camp, sit quietly and “learn something.”

#Landscape #Seascape #Photography #Oregon #PNW
Land and seascape from a bird’s eye view, looking downward into an ocean blue cove with white caps near the shores. One large sea stack stands sentinel offshore. Steep, jagged cliffs of basalt thrust upwards with forests and green grass on their surface. On the “Horizon” a violet marine layer blends with a blue, cloudless sky.
July 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Although nighttime skies are often too cloudy to see constellations, these Starfish in the rocks at “Constellation Park” in Seattle come out at low tide 🤩 💜

#Stunday #Wildlife #Seascape #Photography #PNW
Purple starfish are attached to rocks above and below a small cavern usually underwater.
June 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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This is my fav pic of a black fox on San Juan Island. It’s old, photographer unknown.
A black fox with a silver back and white tipped tail lies across the top of a wooden fence in a field of golden grass.
June 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Snow capped twin peaks “The Brothers” capture the eye in the distance; sea, island, mountains, sky, all lovely layers. Walking back I got soaked in a happy spring rain. 2025, Puget Sound

#GetOutside #BlueSkyArtShow #Seascape #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #OlympicPeninsula #PNW
From bottom to top: A barge towed by a tug heads north across a quiet sea in the foreground. A dark layer of a heavily forested island lies above. Snow capped mountains thrusting upwards into layers of cloud remain visible. Hints of violet and blue color the gray.
June 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Took this in my neighborhood.
We miss Chris and his gorgeous 4 octaves. Rest in peace.
A street artist is painting a headshot of a beautiful white man with long hair on a brick wall. Background is red and the headshot is black and white.
June 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“The forest knows
Where you are.
You must let it find you.”

David Wagoner

#Forest #Landscape #Photography #OlympicPeninsula #PNW
A small creek splashes vertically down the photo running off the bottom. Many moss covered rocks direct its path; a steeper bank on the left is yellow green with moss. Trees trunks rise up in the background.
June 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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“Green, how I want you green,
green wind, green branches […]
she dreams on her balcony,
green flesh, her hair green,
with eyes of cold silver.”

Romance Sonámbulo
Federico Garcia Lorca

#PNW #OlympicPeninsula #Landscape #Photography #Poetry
A forest grove of newly leafed out big leaf maples, trunks wooly with moss, dance creekside in a wild forest. Blue sky modestly peeks through their top branches.
June 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Rockin’ out with Rocktopus in Port Angeles, WA 🐙

#PNW #Photography #OlympicPeninsula
A giant pacific octopus made from cement embedded with pebbles sprawls across a rock, one tentacle wrapped around a bollard. The display is surrounded by a chain hung with colorful locks that almost look like Xmas decorations. Background is trees and water; above is blue sky.
June 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Last week’s garden jewels, wild iris. Their superpower is photosynthesizing on either side of their leaves 💜

#Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Botany #Landscape #Photography
Wild purple iris in a green meadow have no beards. This pic is portrait on center flowers.
June 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Lake Crescent teaches us reflecting is a beautiful.

#OlympicPeninsula #Landscape #Photography #Scape
Foreground is a crystal clear mirror lake with deciduous tree bookends. The lake stretches towards the horizon of verdant, evergreen mountains topped with fluffy clouds and blue sky. The lake’s reflection of the mountains is more green than the mountains and it is dazzlingly difficult to see exactly where reflection and mountains begin.
May 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Waterfall Wednesday from last week’s hike on Sol Duc River.

#OlympicPeninsula #PNW #Landscape #Photography
A river cascades into a waterfall and a narrow gorge brilliant with moss. Forest surrounds the river. Perspective is from standing in a bridge in front of the fall looking back through the forest at the river before it falls.
May 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Last night’s finale song from The Last of Us took me back to this day in 2017 when I watched a street artist creating this iconic headshot on the south side of Easy Street Records in West Seattle.

#ChrisCornell #Seattle
A street artist is painting a headshot of a beautiful white man with long hair on a brick wall. Background is red and the headshot is black and white.
May 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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A blue sky day, today 🦋

#Aquaphile #Landscape #Photography #OlympicPeninsula #PNW
Smoothly rippled lake waters rise to verdant mountaintops touched by cotton clouds. A brilliant blue sky rests above.
May 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I’m into kindness, inclusivity, and sharing beauty.
Have a rare blue poppy! 💙

#Bloomscrolling #FlowerPower #Kindness #Inclusivity #PNW
A rare paper thin 4 petalled flower with a starburst center of yellow anthers and a very tall pistil are still sporting dewdrops on a sunny day. Green oblong leaves are the foreground, evergreen forest and a peekaboo blue sky are the background.
May 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Happy coffee #Caturday!

#Art #FoamArt #Photography #Seattle #PNW #ShotOnIphone
My latte in a white cup and saucer has a cat in foam art. The foam is a portrait with face, paws and toe beans, and a long tail whisking right to left. The cup rests on a sage green table with companions, a small bouquet of pink flowers and my purple-lensed glasses.
May 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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One more of Eden, a Thomas Dambo troll playing her flute on the edge of this forest next to The Whale Trail on Puget Sound. She plays to summon resident orcas home.

#ThomasDambo #NorthwestTrollsWayOfTheBirdKing #PNW #Seattle #Photography
Full body shot of a 16 feet tall female wooden troll’s right side. She stands in a coastal forest of green leaves, mossy trunks and sandy gravel playing a troll flute, eyes closed in concentration and bliss.
May 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM