C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 10hSteptoe Butte in The Palouse -- Eastern Washington near Colfax. The butte's summit is 1,000 feet above the surrounding countryside. You can drive to the top. I took these with my phone (thus the underwhelming image quality) in February 2012. 050
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 11hWashington State gets a new Boomer USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) arrives this week at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor with a full complement of 24 Trident II D5 nuclear missiles -- switching places with USS Pennsylvania, which will now be permanently homeported at Kings Bay, Georgia. 210
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 12hFun factoid: did you know that the Mar-a-Lago face, popular with female MAGAs who frequent Mar-a-Lago, was first introduced in the sci-fi film THE FIFTH ELEMENT? 020
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 13hBeing a Canadian right now must be what it's like to live over a meth lab being run by a motorcycle gang. 131
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 16hAbove the Sunrise Visitor's Center Mt. Rainier National Park. Sometime in 2008ish or 09ish. Was with my father when I took this. Sunrise is at 6,400 feet of elevation on the 14,411 foot mountain. 070
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 16h47 Years Ago This Week.... I became a US Marine after graduating from bootcamp aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. Becoming a Marine was the single best thing I ever did for myself. 010
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 17hThe Bourbon Bar at Q in Seattle Tucked away next to the DJ booth it featured over 125 whiskeys. My biz partner didn't understand why I wanted to build this bar when I built the club. It ended up a popular ultra high dollar profit center, in spite of being tiny with just a 25 person capacity. 040
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 19hIts Fogtober in Seattle. When I lived in Seattle's Blue Ridge nabe, on the hill way up above Puget Sound, I'd watch the fog roll in over the water and it was often like a horror movie it was so creepy and so fast. 1320215
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Was out on the Ohio River with Declan, my 8 year old nextdoor neighbor, and shit suddenly went off the rails. 090
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Twenty-Eight Years Ago Tonight Never forget. Never forgive. 071
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Mountain was out and supervising the landing pattern on Lake Union in downtown Seattle this week as one Kenmore Air floatplane takes off and another lands. 020
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comA Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyJim Bakker is dead, at the age of 86. Among the grosser religious grifters of American history, Bakker was a pure thief, someone who may or may not have really believed in his version of far-right C... 020
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/202620 Years Ago This Week Lava dome building was underway inside Mt. St. Helens after the eruptions of October 1, 2004. Starting this week in 2004 and ending in 2008 the volcano extruded 92 million cubic meters of material, forming the famous dome (pic) -- which reached 1,500 feet in height. 160
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Look who scratched at my front door this morning. Miss Coco from next door! She made a break for it when 8 year old Declan left their door open and she came straight here to hang out on my bed and watch our stories together on TV. 250
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"If it isnt a Boeing I ain't going." 1200 Stewart Street in the Denny Triangle, Seattle. 020
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gramercy Park NYC It's a private park that you need a key to get in. Apartments in buildings around the park are deeded keys. Keys can add a half million to over a million to the resale value of an apartment versus unkeyed apartments. 030
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/202622 Years Ago This Week Mt. St. Helens sprang to life again on October 1, 2004 for the 2004-2008 eruption. This is a photo taken by the USGS of the very first steam and ash explosion of that 2004 eruption. 010
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cornell University would have expelled all of those fucking rapists if, instead of saying "free pussy," they had said "free Palestine." 020
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A seagull harassing an eagle near Elliott Bay. 090
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Airport Hottie It looks as if he was a bit slow using the safe word.... 010
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy birthday, Gus! Nice...ummmm....sunglasses! 040
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My neighborhood pizza joint on Bleecker Street for 25+ years. Large sausage with extra garlic. One of THE best pies in town. "No Slices!" #IYKYK 020
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Doin' the Puyallup" The Mountain dressed up and wearing a couple of stacked lenticular clouds as seen from Puyallup. #IYKYK 030
C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My stepmomz has her own antique steam powered stern paddlewheeler. She's the current CEO of the Belle of Louisville -- launched in 1914 -- its "the most widely traveled steamboat in American history." I love riding on The Belle. 010