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Steve
@steve-d.bsky.social
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Traffic engineer and dad of triplets. Nerd about lots of stuff... hiking, PNW, weather, science, photography, baseball.
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Evening light on the Admirality Inlet and Olympic Mountains seen from Whidbey Island, Washington. #pnw #landscapephotography #scape
View of sky reflecting off the water through tall pines. Scattered clouds with orange and yellow sunset colors seen near the horizon with mountains in the distance.
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Cloud reflections in a nearly still Thompson Lake in Howell, Michigan. #photography #landscape #stunday
Broken clouds with patches of blue sky reflect on a still lake surface with a centered composition, and the far shore of the lake with houses and trees with some fall color in the center.
October 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Theseus Lake near Stevens Pass, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest as the season tips from fall to winter. #hiking #pnw #nature #photography
View from a cliff edge overlooking a blue alpine lake with snow in the forested shadows of a mountain to the right and fall colors and bare talus to the left, with a valley scene and distant snow capped mountains in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Larches above Lake Ann on the Maple Pass Loop trail in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, North Cascades mountains. #pnw #hiking #landscape #photography
Larch trees turning yellow on a steep rocky slope above a lake, with larches on the other side of the valley and mountains in the distance.
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Early morning lenticular cloud on Mount Rainier. #landscapephotography #photography #nps #wawx #pnw
View of Mount Rainier looking southwest from the road to Sunrise with a meadow and conifers in the foreground. Little Tahoma is on the left, with Emmons Glacier draped on the mountain in the center, and the peak obscured by a wispy cloud hovering under broken clouds above.
September 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Mount Rainier and Tinkham Peaks above cloud inversions seen from the Pacific Crest Trail near Kendall Peak. Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington. #pnw #hiking
Ice-capped Mount Rainier seen in the distance under clearing skies in the late morning. Fog fills the valleys including Snoqualmie Pass in the foreground in front of Tinkham Peaks and Mount Catherine and behind a ridge lined with conifers at the bottom of the image.
September 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Grasses in the sand at Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. #pnw #hiking
Wind formed waves in the sand surface represented by alternating dark and light bands of sand, with clumps of grasses and distant evergreens under a sea fog covered sky.
August 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Some amazing patches of wildflowers along the Goat Ridge trail in the Goat Rocks Wilderness from this weekend. #pnw #hiking #wildflowers
August 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Not many views with haze and clouds on Tiger Mountain yesterday, but there was some interesting wildlife to see. #pnw #hiking
A large yellow and black banana slug in the dirt on the side of the trail. One of about a dozen seen. Interesting black mushroom with brown mushrooms growing on the inverted top along the trail. A heron and ducks sit on branches sticking out of an algae covered pond seen through foliage. A small black and green garter snake crosses the dry, rocky trail with sparse dead leaves.
August 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Did the Kamikaze trail up Mt. Teneriffe today. It’s called that because of 2,300 feet of gain in the last 9/10ths of a mile. Overall hiked 10 miles with just over 4k of gain. View of Rainier from near the top. #pnw #hiking
Photo near the top of a mountain with rocky and treed slopes to the left and a large conifer to the right. Ice capped Mt. Rainier is in the far background with the City of North Bend at the bottom of the valley.
August 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Rattlesnake Lake from the first ledge. #pnw #hiking
View toward a mountain valley and lake from near the edge of a cliff with a boulder in the foreground. Broken clouds overhead and an expanse of conifers beyond a blue and green lake.
August 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Olallie Lake with Mount Rainier in the distance. Taken from the trail to island lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. #hiking #pnw #landscapephotography
Photo framed by conifers on both sides looking down through a forest at a lake reflecting an overcast sky, with tree covered mountains behind the lake and a snow capped mountain, partially obscured by clouds, in the far distance.
July 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Upper Comet Falls along the trail to Mildred Point at Mount Rainier National Park from yesterday 7/17/25. #nps #nature #landscapephotography
View from the bottom of a steep valley bordered by evergreens with a waterfall in the bottom center. Just above the waterfall are distant bright green meadows broken by dark green conifers. In the distance is Mount Rainier with glaciers, ice cliffs, and melting snowfields under a clear blue sky.
July 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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And Collective Soul rocking out in the chorus of Shine.
July 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Our Lady Peace at White River Amphitheater finishing with Starseed.
July 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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George Kirby vs. Paul Skenes was a great pitching matchup yesterday. Mariners defeated the Pirates 1-0 on a Randy Arozarena solo home run in the 6th. #mlb
July 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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A group of Bald Eagles hunting for fish on Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park. Taken yesterday on a family trip to tour beaches on the peninsula. #nps #birding #photography #pnw
A close up photo of a juvenile Bald Eagle with brown and white feathers sitting in a tree overlooking the beach. Three Bald Eagles congregate near the edge of the water at Rialto Beach, with the buildings of La Push and sea stacks visible in the distance. A juvenile Bald Eagle stands on the beach near crashing tide with wings partially raised. A Bald Eagle circles above the ground in front of onlookers with the driftwood and adjacent forest of Rialto Beach in the background.
June 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Macro shots of last hurrah blooms for some of my plants. Trumpet vine, lavender, lithodora, and salvia barely still going. #flowers #pnw #garden
Macro photo of a cluster of orange trumpet vine flowers focused on yellowish stamen anthers, with the blooms lined up in a row and an out of focus flower in the background showing the classic trumpet shape. Parallel dark purple blooms of a lavender plant stretch toward the sunlight along edge of an out of focus pathway. Spring green foliage of a lithodora plant with small bright blue flowers. This plant isn't quite getting enough light where it's located so blooms are muted and its growth a bit stunted. About a dozen tall purple salvia blooms spaced out in a corner of the garden.
June 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Copper Lake from the West Fork Foss River Lakes trail in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness taken last weekend. Looking forward to the real start of summer in the PNW before too long.
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Low clouds obscure the far side of a lake shoreline with granite and talus slopes in the background, with the calm lake seen from a viewpoint next to an old stump and through pine trees.
June 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Upper Granite Lake from a morning solo hike today. #pnw #hiking
Photo of Upper Granite Lake, with the south shore lined by evergreen topped cliffs with a talus slope base from lake edge to half way up the cliffs. Some trees are growing in the talus at the lake edge and other greenery starts about halfway up the slopes. Several large rocks are in the foreground at the near side lake edge. The distant water is a sea green color, with the near side translucent showing brown rocks just below the surface. A blue sky is overhead at the top of the frame. Morning light gives dark shadows on the trees above the cliffs.
June 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Happy little Anna’s Hummingbird visiting the trumpet vine. He came back several times this weekend. #flowers #birds
A green and gray Anna’s Hummingbird gets nectar from a clump of blooming orange and yellow trumpet vine growing in brown lattice
May 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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A lovely creek crossing the Teneriffe Mountain Trail. #pnw #hiking
View from a bridge looking down toward a clear pool of water surrounded by rocks and greenery of the lower forest, with several short cascades of white falls coming down the mountainside.
May 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Jack White at the Paramount last night playing tons of different songs from across his career. Was a great show. And pretty loud.
May 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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More macro shots from the garden. Irises almost done and trumpet vine just starting. Roses will be soon. #flowers #photography
Close up shot of white iris stamen with blue "veins" on the petals Close up of an all white iris flower showing stamen and lines flowing out of the middle of the flower Photo of a blooming all white iris Close up photo of a single trumpet vine flower blooming from a cluster with ten more yet to open.
May 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Exploring the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River area last weekend with my boys. #hiking #pnw
Very bright green undergrowth of ferns and moss along the trail Peek through the trail side trees of a large rainbow over the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River valley View toward the snow topped Preacher Mountain from the west side of Stegosaurus Butte Three boys tossing rocks in the Taylor River below Garfield Mountain
May 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM