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@the-schlem.bsky.social
Maker, Photographer, Cyclist, Curious Sort...
Retired Firefighter / Paramedic
Cascadia
The last day of August found me riding through a cathedral of Bigleaf Maples, on the South Skagit Highway, beside the gorgeous, sinuous Skagit River.
September 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
45 years ago today, Mount St. Helens erupted. The anniversary of that eruption is celebrated as Cascadia Day, a day chosen to join together to celebrate, educate, and raise awareness of #Cascadia and bioregionalism. Good day for a bike ride too.
May 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I met most of my #pinhole photography posse on Txitter, but that has decomposed into a feculent stew of hate, so many of us have come here.
Here's us making exposures today, on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.
#wppd #pinhole #pinholista #gittogether #filmphotography
#skagit
April 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I rode the Klunker yesterday cuz PRs and KOMs aren't everything. But you know I still Strava that shit.
April 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A quick out-and-about, riding between the raindrops, ducking beneath the wind.

Confession, I never cared for the desert-turquoise hits of color on this MASI frame. Until I got a carpet, in the form of a water bottle, that tied the room together.

#abide #fakeitalian #phil
April 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I took #Morlock out for a sunset spin tonight. My modern #scorcher, super fun to ride fixed.
#fixie #fixedgear
April 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM
April 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Spring Legs on the Cascade Trail. A perfect spring day, drenched my feet in a creek crossing, and met a Trail Pig. A banquet of spring smells.
April 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I'm organizing a social ride.
100 quarter mile laps.
Hello Springtime!
#bikes #lapdog #atownvelo
April 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
La Connor, on the Swinomish channel, has a charming waterfront. City fathers recently made 1st Street one way, which puts northbound traffic over a hill above the waterfront on 2nd St.
#cascadia #salishsea #bikes
#skagit
April 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
And to think I almost talked myself out of riding today...

#salishsea #cadcadia #bikes
March 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Amazingly, it happened again. Every winter I worry that spring will never come...
March 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Gotta ride between the raindrops and around the wind in this Slow Spring.
I feel like a kid waiting for Xmas
#skagit #bikes
March 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Was hoping for a longer ride today, but a clamshell fragment robbed me of time spent patching a tube. It was a lovely pre-spring day, not the worst flat tire experience.
#bikes #bikesky
March 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A winter sunset, Cypress Island, and the San Juan Islands, and a Washington State Ferry.
#skagit #salishsea #cascadia
February 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Still waiting for spring...
Here's My Little Pony, a 2004 Surly 1x1 singlespeed. I built it up new with Clydesdale 36h wheels, and it's been a favorite. It now has a Rohloff 14 speed internal gear hub and CF 650b wheels, and it's going to carry me for another 20 years.
#bikesky #bike #skagit
February 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
If you see this, post a bridge.
#skagit #bikesky
February 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Still feeling crummy. But thinking about warmer weather and riding my bikes. Here's my Jones LWB with a truss fork, on the shore of the Salish Sea.
#skagit #bikes #bikesky
February 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I don't give a shit about football. And I never saw "Rocky".
But I did go for a fantastic #bike ride today on this chilly, windy Sunday.
#skagit #bikesky #owlsuperb
February 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Delight from the Salish Sea

Oysters from Taylor Shellfish
#oysters #cascadia #skagit
February 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
pissoirs
January 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I make a lot of soups. This is a chicken vegetable, about which, I am very excited. Thighs, since you asked... Best damn part of a fucking yardbird. Also carrots, potatoes, sorry, garlic, potatoes, zucchinis, cabbage, bay leaf, peas, corn, green beans. Giving away secrets here.
January 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
January 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Celebrated Governor Ferguson's inauguration at the Washington State Capitol last night. Great food, great crowd, great music, no fascism at all. None. It can be done!
January 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Here's some #Cascadia #Bike shit
...and a Trumpeter Swan
January 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM