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Jim/James Go Cubs Banner - Graffiti reading "Do Wat feels Bien or Don’t” in Oaxaca, MX PFP - A man in a t-shirt & cap sits on a log facing the water on a beach. Next to him a bike leans against a palm tree.

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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Crow routine: 1) Land in peanut-designated planter. Find it empty. 2) Make good and sure human inside sees him/her and remembers they forgot daily peanut delivery. (b/c it’s raining). 3)) Peanuts delivered. 4) Fly to nearby tree. Wait for human to go back inside. 5) Peanuts obtained. #corvids
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(and thank you for giving us all the opportunity to remember our beloveds and share)
A calico cat sits in the headless lap of a person in a black quarter zip shirt at a counter in front of two shot glasses of tequila, with the bottle also sitting on the counter.  The headless human holds a sign that reads "Happy 21st birthday, Derwyn!" that also has pictures of Derwyn at various stages of her life.  Top Left going clockwise: A picture of Derwyn as a kitten fresh of the streets of Pilsen, sitting on a couch looking away from the camera while casually playing with a piece of string; Derwyn's intake papers at the vet stating the exam date of 12.21.1998,  her guesstimated birthday of 9.28.1998, her gender (F) her oolor (calico) where she was found (on a playground [at the Chicago public school where the headless human's mother taught 2nd grade, napping in the sun on the school principal's jaguar]) and her weight (1.95kg/~4.25lbs); a picture of Derwyn sitting in a birdcage with an open door. The bird was fine as it was not in residence at the time. She swears she was just bringing a housewarming gift to say hi so they could be friends; a close up of her face, lying on someone's lap; a picture, partially obscured by the headless human's fingers, of her sprawled and luxuriating on a radiator in front of a red curtain. She discovered covered radiators late in life, and wondering why the humans had deprived her of such pleasure for so long.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
6am, Shilshole Ave. #photography
In early morning darkness on a foggy day, A cement mixer truck with a forest green cab and a white-with-orange stripes mixing barrels sits with it's headlights shooting yellow beams into the fog  in front of an industrial  building with a tower labelling it SALMON BAY.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Foggy morning. #photography
Along a curving two lane road lines with trees on a dark foggy morning, intermittently illuminated by street lamps, two vintage cars sit along the left shoulder in front of an auto shop style building converted into a home. The front window is warmly illuminated and the two cars are a silver Lincon Continental on the left of the frame and a eggshell blue Dodge A100 van in the middle of the frame.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Foggy morning #photography
On a fog dense morning, a man in dark clothes walks uphill after a small white dog through a field of yellowing grassing under a tree with leaves turning yellow for the season.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mountain almost came out this morning. #photography
Mt Rainier is just visible through a morning for that catches the sunrise light and infuses the air with a pinkish golden glow. The mountain itself appears pinkening with alpenglow above a purple bank of fog, seen across the water of Puget Sound, with a beach at low tide in the foreground, a tide pool reflecting the sky.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not-quite-full Moon. #photography
A moon that appears for all intents to be a full moon is actually only A 95% illuminated waning gibbous moon appears in the blue morning sky  along with some tattered  white clouds.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fancy sky. #photography
A sky full of pink lit clouds at sunrise over Elliott Bay, with Mt Rainier visible in the distance. In the foreground, small waves break over a narrow beach lined with driftwood.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well damn, Seattle.
The Seattle skyline, downtown buildings and the space needle, seen from across a a park with a playground on a blue sky day.  A few parents and kids are at the playground, one kid is riding a bike, another kicking a ball; another parent and child are doing some kind of activity at a picnic table.  The sky is a clear blue except for one fluffy backlit could edging in from the left of the frame. Mt Rainier is not visible due to haze.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unnerving encounter in the dark this morning. Absentmindedly walking, I heard skittering before seeing a pair of glowing red eyes hovering ahead. More skittering and two more sets of eyes. The way they’re curiously assessing me . . . to what ends I didn’t want to find out. I crossed the street.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hunter / hunted #photography
A minimalist rusted metal sculpture of a Viking striding with a long sword across the rocky breakwater protecting Shilshole Marina. It is morning and the sky is full of pink clouds, the pink light reflected in the water of the marina. The ends of docked sailboats and their masts line the edges of the frame.
A minimalist rusted metal sculpture of a Sea serpent slithering across the rocky breakwater protecting Shilshole Marina. It is morning and the sky is full of pink clouds, the pink light reflected in the water of the marina. The ends of docked sailboats and their masts line the edges of the frame.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Caught snacking, looking like a dog that just grabbed something off the counter.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Abstracted morning sky in unstilled water, variation #2. #photography
A photo of a cloudy morning sky reflected in barely disturbed water, taken at a slow shutter speed. Smears of overexposed highlights gone to nearly white with some hints of golden sunlights,  dashes of orange red on an overall background made of various tones of green blue water.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
West Point Lighthouse, low tide at sunrise. #photography
A white, two-story lighthouse is seen in the distance across a beach at low tide. The sky is pink and purple at sunrise and is reflected in the shallow water that covers the beach in the foreground at low tide.  In the distance across the water of Puget Sound is a low range of forested hills and beyond that the just-visible silhouette of the Olympic Mountains.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Goat context.
Mt Tahoma (Rainier) peers over the top of a low ridgeline of scree and scrubby alpine vegetation.  Three mountain goats can be seen grazing if you look long enough.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Saw some mountain goats. I've seen them other spots in the Cascades, but first time seeing them here. A benefit of sitting in one spot and looking for half an hour. #photography
A mountain goat stands amidst rock and scrubby vegetation staring straight back at the viewer with its inscrutable black eyes. Do not look too long into those eyes.Two mountain goats sit in a strip of shade among scattered rocks amidst scrubby alpine vegetation, looking back at the viewer with their depthless black eyes.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Went to visit Seattle big-bottomed girl the other day. Took 8 hours to cover an ~11 mile loop because it was a day for stopping and just . . . stopping. Crazy busy but hang around someplace long enough there'll be moments and even long minutes of solitude while it all just happens.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This crow friend likes to double fist their peanuts. #corvid
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Splittin‘ the G on a Friday afternoon, as one does when recently unemployed.
A glass of Guinness where the level of Guinness splits the G on the Guinness label etched on the glass. If you manage to do this in one go on your first drink you are cool.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just Fall now, I suppose. #photography
In the early morning, fallen and scattered golden leaves cover the street in front a restaurant in a small white house between retail shops on a commercial strip. A white fence enclosing empty tables along the sidewalk and lone streetlight, pole posted with bills, casts light on the scene.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Haven’t been up here in a bit, but not a bad place to start my first full week as a not-by-my-choice unemployed person since, oh, 2002? #photography
A sunrise sky seen from The classic view from Kerry Park in Seattle, treetops fill the foreground overlooking downtown Seattle highlighted by the Space Needle on the left of the frame but Climate Arena and a bit further off the waterfront ferris wheel and the arched supports of the football and baseball stadium roofs are also visible among the mix of skyscrapers and apartment buildings, with an alpen-glowing Mt Rainier in the distance. Elliott Bay is visible on the right of the frame as a ferry approaches the terminal.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Damn, Daniel.
A brilliant sunset sky full of of pink and gold and purple clouds over a dark line of trees and a mountain range.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yep. Chicago suburbs born and raised while spending a lot of time over the last 25 years with NE Iowans who sound like a amalgam of MN/WI.
A color coded map of the United States showing I sound most like someone from the upper Midwest, with some California thrown in and least like someone from the South. Cities most like me all tied at 53% are Milwaukee, Chicago and LA and last like me are New Orleans, Atlanta and Houston.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sky currently doin’ stuff.
A golden sunset sky. A purple blue mountain range sits behind A dark row of trees under a golden sky streaked with purple grey and pink clouds.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Add Bardhahl. Do it. Do it now. #photography
A conversion van with a brown body, 4 black tinted windows on the body and  flames painted on the front fender sits parked in front of a brightly colored 3 story industrial building with a red neon sign reading ADD BARDAHL on top. The front of the building is bright green and behind the curved roof of a yellow painted warehouse.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not a bad place to watch a game. 1st time at Mariner’s park. 1st professional baseball game since like 2019. Very rude of Randy to do that and ruin it for me. Happy for the kids who got to experience it tho. Also, totally forgot Bregman played for the cheating Astros. Respect for the booing.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Low tide, Discovery Park Beach. #photography
A sunrise photo of Mt Rainier. The mountain is in the center of the frame, with one flank partly hidden by the forested slope of the Magnolia neighborhood on the left of the frame. The foreground shows the tidal flats exposed at low tide, with a tide pool reflecting the sky, trees and dimly, the mountain, beyond which lie the waters of Puget Sound.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Keep repackaging my nostalgia for my young adulthood and sell it back to me and I will keep giving you my money. Also helps if I can sit on a blanket in the grass and sip rosé on a beautiful summer evening while I'm doing it. The Breeders at Woodland Park Zoo.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Operating on the solid principle "You'll have to pick up your phone at some point", this was my Mom's cat Belle attempting to get pets from my cat-allergic but tolerating gf.
A torty cat lies on a table covered in a festive red holiday tablecloth  with her head on an iPhone in an attempt to get inadvertent pets when the person sitting  in front of her with their hands in their lap very much not wanting to touch the cat has to pick up the phone.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The smoke is back, I guess. I just saw the news about the Grand Park fire in Rainier, one of my favorite places in the whole park. Fire season sucks. #photography
The morning sun, filtered thru a haze of wildfire smoke that has again settled over Seattle, glows a muted orange red in a sky of the same tone, and is seen under the trusses of the I-5 interstate bridge as it passes over Lake Union , the waters of which mirror the color of the sky.  Apartments and the buildings of the University of Washington campus frame the sun below the bridge.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
At a certain point, when they've been together long enough, a car will begin to resemble to house it belongs to. #photography
An old white pick-up truck with a lovely patina of rust on its upper half sits parked on the brown grass lawn of a small house that has an artful patina of worn paint above the front door.  The golden light of sunrise filtered through the haze of fire smoke tints the morning dew coating the trucks windows and gives the scene a warm glow.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sunset, Saturday night at Golden Gardens Beach. #photography
The sun sets behind the Olympic Mountains across Puget Sound. The sky is orange gold and cloudless and the mountains are in blue shadow.  A slice of rocky beach is visible at the bottom of the frame.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I need to start practicing better library hold list hygiene, b/c I am not a fast reader and suddenly I'll have 4 books ready in a week's span. On top of the stack of bought books in the tbr pile. Also, I learned of each of these books/authors on Bluesky. If a follow mentions a book. . .
A stack of library books on a table. From top to bottom:

It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over - Anna de Marcken (novel)
The Vivisectors - Missouri Williams (novel)
A Long Game. Notes on Writing Fiction - Elizabeth Mckracken (non-fiction)
This Vast Enterprise - Craig Fehrman (non-fiction)
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yacht "dockminiums". A "condo" for your car. "a private-access waterfront destination at lands’ end, created for automotive enthusiasts, yachtsmen, entrepreneurs, creators, family offices, and true connoisseurs of life." "A secure social sanctuary" Tax the rich. Or eat them. I don't care which.🤷‍♂️
A billboard behind hurricane fencing on a empty lot advertising new luxury development called Terminal One Motor and Yacht club with "car condos' and "yacht dockminiums" where wealthy people with car collections and super yachts will be able to pay lots of money to store their possessions while down the road people live in their cars.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Eerie stuff, man. #photography
In an eerie pink-orange light filtering through the smoked hazed sky just after sunrise,  utility pole cuts the scene in half with the attendant lines and cables slicing up the frame at various angles as a person stands, back to camera, at a railing in a small pocket park on the right that overlooks the just visible waters of Lake Union, and beyond lows tree covered hills, Lake Washington.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is how I get looked at just walking thru my Mom's house, where I lived for the first 20+ years of my life, and where, Jennie, a foster, very much Does Not Live. Tho Jennie is something of a permafoster at this point. Somehow this charming personality has yet to find a forever home yet.
A grey and white cat crouches low on top of a cat tree, the lower half of her face concealed so all you can see is her eyes, which are level with your eyes, which stare back at your full of feline hatred, and her ears pinned down in the posture of rage.  

You have done nothing but walk past the room this cat is in.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Looks like the smoke generated by significant chunks of the rest of the state being on fire finally reached us today. #photography
The sun appears in the center a orangey smoke-tinged sky above a row of buildings. The Seattle Space Needle rises on the right of the frame.Across some train tracks, above 5-6 story apartment buildings, the morning sun appears in an orange, smoke-tinged sky, level with the top of the Seattle Space Needle. The whole scene is infused with the orange tint of the sky.A reflection of the morning sun is seen in the orange tinted water of Salmon Bay behind the Ballard Locks spillway, while thru the railing lining the catwalk above the spillway, the actual sun in the orange tinted sky sun stars.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Cooling my feet after a hike on a day of changeable weather. Sometimes hot and sunny, sometimes spitting rain, sometimes cool and gusty; just like it's supposed to be in the mountains. But at least no hazy smoke.
A person with their back to the viewer wearing a black shirt and a khaki brimmed hat stands hip deep in the turquoise water of Diablo Lake, just off a rocky beach, looking across the water and the tree covered, overlapping mountain slopes and the white puffy clouds in the blue sky.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Went hiking on Saturday and this was my view for most of it. That's our friends' Maine Coon, Lord Balthazar.
A grey and white Maine Coon sits looking out of a a cat backpack as he is toted up a train through trees and ferns by a man wearing khaki shorts and a burgundy jacket.A grey and white Maine Coon in a cat backpack turns to look at the trail ahead, as he is toted up a train through trees and ferns by a man wearing khaki shorts and a burgundy jacket.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The rugged peaks of the North Cascades. My legs were quite sore when I got to camp that night. I was never a pro athlete or even close, but hiking/backpacking does give me some small insight into the "Why can't my body do the things it used to do, I feel the same?" mentality. #photography
A dirt trail through, low, scrubby alpine vegetation, scattered with stunted evergreen trees leads the eye toward rugged black peaks, some still patched with snow, in the near distance, all under a clear blue sky.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Josaleigh Pollett at Conor Byrne last night. Great show, great place to watch a show. We were happy to find seats at the bar b/c we're aged and my hip hurts sometimes. There for @brosaleigh.bsky.social but now on bandcamp adding to @elliottgreen.bsky.social , Strog & Spyglass stuff to the cart.
Three piece band on a stage. Stage left is a person in a ball camp, a tank top revealing sleeve tattoos, with a lovely smile, playing guitar and singing. Stage right is another person in a ball cap and black tee, playing guitar and surrounded by a laptop and a keyboard (? Idk I'm not musical). The drummer is there but not visible behind the kit. The stage is bordered by two faux streetlamps and a chandelier hangs overhead. The light is purple-red and the audience watches intently from the floor.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Rose in the morning sun. When you're trying to remind yourself like taking photos, flowers are an always reliable place to start. #photography
A red rose catches some morning light, backgrounded by some dried out brown fronds of an unidentified (by me) tree.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sea-Mar/Space Man. #photography
An industustrial building, flat tan in color with a band of white above a line of gridded windows, where the name SEA - MAR appears. Tree shadows fall in from behind the viewer, and a stencil of a the torso and head of space man is painted on the grey industrial doors in front.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I decided so long as it didn't approach a tent, I'd let everybody sleep in ignorance, rather than start a panic. Everyone had properly stored their food, so it lumbered harmlessly thru, eventually climbing a tree in search of some bugs to eat. I did let a ranger know on my way out what I'd seen.
A black bear (with cinnamon colored fur) scene among branches as it scales an evergreen tree, nuzzling the bark in search of insects to eat.A black bear (with cinnamon colored fur) sitting up an evergreen tree among branches.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It was 6:45am, and only 2 other campers were awake. They'd barricaded their campsite with branches against a bear completely uninterested in their existence. I tracked the bear from a safe distance as it wandered thru camp, debating whether or not to raise the alarm by shouting "Bear!"
A black bear with cinnamon colored fur lumbers across a dirt path among stubby evergreen trees.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Phone reminded me it was 5 years ago, that, lost in thought, walking back into Sunrise Camp, thinking about the sunrise I'd just seen from 2nd Burroughs, I stopped short, annoyed not only had someone (illegally) brought a dog, but let it wander around off leash. Then I looked again. . . #photography
A scrawny black bear (tho it is cinnamon brown in color) sniffs at at evergreen sapling while standing next to a dirt path through a campsite.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How we pack for a beach day. 2 small camp chairs, sun tent, cooler with beverages, two small towels, two hats, two books, sunscreen.
Two bikes on a beach; one a black acoustic mountain bike lies on the sand, the other, a silvere-bike with a moped shape, stands propped by a kickstand with a brown milk crate strapped behind the seat, full to overflowing with the listed items secured by bungee cords. The water is calm and flat, the sky scattered with fluffy white clouds, and low hills visible across the water with mountains beyond those.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Saw the Golden Gardens Beach shuttle bus gassing up at Chevron yesterday.
The green and gold shuttle bus that serves Golden Gardens Beach this summer sits at a Chevron gas station next to the gas pumps.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
3am sky over Basin Creek. The campsites weren't much to speak of - hot, dusty, no views - but their namesake creek made up for it. The hike in and groundsleeping had my moderately arthritic left hip acting up all night so I put my sleeplessness to use and tried my hand at some night sky #photography
A black and white photo of a creek, the water blurred by a long exposure, rushing through a bouldered bed between overlapping, tree covered slopes toward a vanishing point, beyond which is a double-peaked mountain, all under a night sky full of stars.
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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The original photo. It definitely crops in a bit, to account for camera movement, I imagine, and loses a bunch of detail in the process from the same, but maybe a small bendy tripod balanced that could've worked (if I'd had one) where a full-sized wouldn't fit could fix that. Something to mess with.
A wilderness scene of the waters of Basin Creek rushing through a rocky creek bed to a vanishing point below a double peaked mounted bathed in evening alpenglow in North Cascades National Park. Thick vegetation covers the slopes on either side of the creek.
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