It's always interesting running a course in reverse—familiar sections are made novel with the new perspective. It's a good reminder to look at my life from a new angle once in a while: try to see what others are seeing, look for details I've missed, try to see the good in the things that have caused me pain and the beauty in the things I've taken for granted.
Another skyward-perspective of a magnificent tree 🌲 I like how the lighting of this shot makes it so that the undersides of each branch are so dark as to appear black, yet the glow of daylight illuminates the outside edges, giving each branch a green halo of sorts.
If you only knew how often I look at a tree like this and imagine myself as some anime ninja, springing from branch to branch, climbing the Tree of Heaven to the realm of the gods 🥷😅
Washington State Ferries reports payment network outage impacting entire system. Backup payment processes in effect. Current price for walk on passengers to Seattle from Bainbridge is one turnip, vehicles under 22 feet in length will cost, at a minimum, one small to medium sized goat. #wa#seattle
One of the great things about trail running is finding these places that feel like worlds unto themselves, where one can run forever and forget the hard reality of life off the trail.
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"The weather fair which is the first fair day since we left Fort #Vancouver#WA. Proceeded with a fair wind after breakfast and continued all right (night?). When we encamped below the Island, one of the Calves from being confined in the Boat all day was lame.
"Monday. Proceeded at half past 5. Weather fine, steady breeze all Day, and encamped above the Grand Rapid. I have now being going up & down the Columbia for four years and.... #HistoricJourney#Books
The ferns adorning this mossy tree remind me of the frilly gills of an axolotl, and I imagine this capture as the plant-axolotl Dragon of Kaiser Woods 🐉🌲
Every time I see this image, I think of the second album from Red Sparowes:
"Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun"
Wildly out of context here, I know—that record is a concept album about the Great Leap Forward and the Great Sparrow Campaign—but somehow the title feels right for this image 🍄☀️
Clusters of this orange jelly fungus (Dacrymyces chrysospermus, I believe) can be found on nearly every stump along the trail. If you look closely, you can see more orange-yellow clusters growing on the stump in the background. Despite how common it is in the Pacific Northwest, this stuff still looks so alien to me 👽🍄🧡
#PublicTransit 🚋 advocates, #cyclists 🚲 & #Urbanists throughout #Washington state needed to provide online public comment for the WSDOT’s Highway System Plan, which will seek to promote walking & #cycling and reduce vehicle 🚙 miles traveled.
There's no sign on the forest road that tells a person this trail exists; but if you climb up the hillside from the road and into the forest, you can hop on and run parallel to the road, through the forest, almost to the peak of Rock Candy Mtn.
The things you'll see when you leave traveled roads for barely discernible paths through the woods 😅🤩
I wish you could hear this scene: the sigh of a breeze through the trees; the swish of fallen leaves dancing with that gentle wind; the pitter-patter of a recent shower's raindrops falling from the canopy to the understory below; the even quieter, almost imperceptible sound of leaves shaking free of their trees and landing among piles of other fallen leaves; the occasional chirping of a squirrel, the carefree song of a bird. No sounds of humankind this far into the woods, this deep into autumn.