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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've never heard of Adolfo Kaminsky before. I wonʻt forget him as long as I live. Read the article please.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well crap, hereʻs another one for us. Image from nhc.noaa.gov

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's been difficult to hold back until #WaterfallWednesday, but here we are! Cottonwood Falls, Mount Thielsen, #Oregon. The spring that feeds the falls only pops out of the ground about 50 yards upstream! 🤩 I'd been planning and dreaming of visiting this spot for YEARS. #Hiking #Nature

A photo of an alpine landscape featuring a wide waterfall at middle left tumbling over a rough cliff and splashing across the cliff face on its way down to the lower left corner. Bright green mosses border the falls, while to the falls right all the way to the right edge of the photo is a jumbled slate like cliff face with occasional small plants hanging on between the light ashy tan rocks.
The upper portions of the photo above the falls and cliff feature tall narrow green pines on the upper left, their tops reaching out of frame, and similar smaller green trees on the right. And behind the small right side trees towers a formidable high craggy mountain face in the strong sun. It's rocky cliffs vary between ashen white and shades of dark charcoal, including the twin summit areas jutting into the rich blue sky.
The Sun strongly illuminates the scene from off frame to the far left, allowing the tall trees to cast shadows toward the right on the forest floor.
This is within The Mount Thielsen Wilderness in Oregon State. The peak is Mount Thielsen, which stands at 9,184 ft (2,799 m)

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A new Vireya blooming in the Poʻaha Garden today. This is Vireya "Java Rose", a double flower selection. Very nice. #Vireya #rhododendron

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was so into my camping situation yesterday, I forgot #Waterfall day! So here is a grab bag of sights from today's hikes! #Hiking #Nature #PNW #Forests

A photo of a tall waterfall dropping down a green moss covered cliff and blasting into a pool below. Small rivlets tin down the cliff alongside the main falls to it's right.
Tall green pine trees sit atop the cliff.
From the waterfall pool, a vigorous stem runs down toward the center of the image. In the foreground either side of the view of the falls are several small young green pines. And in the lower foreground are some green leaved plants with some of their leaves turning gold. And a big dark wet rock at lower right.

A photo at a downward angle of a curtain of waterfall dropping off a low portion of a cliff. The higher parts of the cliff rise to either side, with the left side more visible showing tall regular pillars of basalt columns in light grey. The right side cliff face is obscured by a tall pine tree trunk in dark grey, and lots of green brush.
Above the cliffs are a variety of sizes and ages of green conifer trees that fill the view upwards.
Below the falls are scattered boulders, all covered in evenly colored green mosses, while the pool below the falls runs off from it's right side back toward the center bottom of the image in vigorous white.
The bottom foreground is a smattering of green leaved native rodidendrons and a very small fir tree.

A photo of a brightly sunlit forest of tall green pines teaching into the bright sky.
The sunlight comes in from the upper right.
Foliage of the forest floor green brush practically glows in the light. Up from the bottom right is a brown path that disappears into the brush at middle bottom, with a few bright spots from the sunlight.

A photo of a wooden painted sign with arrows pointing upward that says 'CAMPING", and to the left that says "PICNICKING FALLS".
A wooden split trail fence starts in front of the sign and runs left off frame.
A grey paved single lane road runs from lower right, and disappears behind the sign.
To the left of the sign is a tall shrub with green narrow leaves and visible branches teaching up from the ground.
Big brown conifer tree trunks rise behind the sign, and a few smaller bushy young green conifers to the right.

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago" ~ WW Loch Voil

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Eleven avocados, some salt, lemon juice, garlic, tomato, ceelantrow, jalapeno peppers and voila, guacamole. About four pounds of it. My lunch and dinner side for a while... Teaspoon for scale. #avocado #guacamole

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My maʻafala ʻulu tree is pumping out fruit this year. I eat only a few so must find someone to share with.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s #WorldShorebirdDay and this Greater Yellowlegs is celebrating with some interpretative dance! #Birds 🪶

A Greater Yellowlegs lands in a very shallow marsh. The water is very calm so there is a reflection, and the yellowlegs looks like it’s running with its one leg up and its wings out for balance. The water is green and yellow as it reflects the colour of the early Fall reeds on the shore.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fun! Two cat4 hurricanes splitting the difference north and south of the islands. Hopefully Kauai will be safe.

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here are some views I enjoyed on my Sunday hike near Mount Hood, Oregon! Also visible were Mount Adams, Washington & Mount Jefferson in Oregon with thick smoke around it's base. You can see tiny Mirror Lake in the selfie shot! #MountainMonday #MountHood #PNW #Hiking #Portland #Oregpn #Nature

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My favorite image from this past week's partial Lunar Eclipse! The crows, The Moon and Earth's shadow still rising over the lower slope of Mount Hood, the clouds, the silhouetted trees! 🤩 #Stunday #PNW #LunarEclipse #Crows #PDX

A photo of the partially eclipsed Moon rising over a distant sloped mountainside.
The top side of the Moon has a string of small clouds across it's face that are the same deep dusky blue color as the darkening sky.
The Moon itself has a pale ruddy color, and darker features are visible on its surface. The exposed lower portion is a gradient of blue.
Above and around the Moon are several scattered crows flying.
The foreground has silhouetted trees in the nearby landscape.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You want to see if an anti-Trumper conservative can actually be trusted? Ask them if Trump's judges should be removed. Then, I would suggest, stop being suckered.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Naught but a leap to the left And then a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo! It ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Lat us doon the Tyme Warpe agayne!

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Six blosooms on my Koki'o ke'oke'o, Hibiscus arnottianus! Rare, scented hibiscus native to Hawaii. Tough to grow as the invasive beetles strip the leaves. But I use cheap solar lights to keep them confused.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Finally ripe and harvested. Blue Java banana. Big week for fruit here, banana, pumelo, pineapple, soursop, papaya and peanut butter fruit. #banana #tropicalfruit #bluejava #bluejavabanana

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Green Lacewing Eggs on a green papaya. Thought they were a slime mold fruit initially but the interweb corrected me.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some sentence just sound better with the word "idiot" appended. "Yes, vaccines really work, idiot." "Yes, you have a blinker on your car, idiot." "Yes, the stripper really thinks you're different from the others, idiot." I'm not saying they're more effective that way. Just that they sound better.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The hurricane did not even touch my bananas, thankfully. I have this bunch of blue java and two more large bunches of Bluggoe or burro bananas in the goat pen. This bunch is almost ready to cut down. #bananas #bluejava

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Morning! Today's #WaterfallWednesday brings is to Crooked Creek Falls at Mount Adams! A real alpine charmer dropping into flower filled meadows from springs above. #Hiking #Nature #PNW

A photo of a waterfall centered in the image that drops over a modest cliff face of grey volcanic stone into a V shaped meadow full of wildflowers and green grasses, with a few scattered small conifer trees.
The top of the cliff is filled with taller green pointy alpine firs and pines. The sky above has featureless white clouds to the left half, and pale blue sky to the right.

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Carl Prothman | Landscape Photographer @carlprothman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sol Duc Falls surrounded by the lush forests of Olympic National Park. I especially like how the bridge adds scale to the scene. #PNW #WaterfallPhotography #NaturePhotography

Sol Duc Falls plunges through a narrow rocky gorge beneath a wooden footbridge, surrounded by tall evergreens, moss-covered rocks, ferns, and dense green foliage. A fallen tree angles toward the silky white water created by a long exposure. The scene feels cool, peaceful, and deeply immersed in the Pacific Northwest forest.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

So far I am surviving Lala. Sideways rain and constant wind. But almost through it.

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I didn't forget #WaterfallWednesday! Just been busy and knackered. This is Crooked Creek Falls at Mount Adams. It made for a really lovely finish to this hike through alpine meadows. #Hiking #MountAdams #Alpine #Waterfall #Nature #Wildflowers

A photo of a waterfall dropping from a modest cliff face into a V shaped meadow of green grasses and multicolored wildflowers. The cliff is a light grey with horizontally trending layering.
Tall narrow green alpine conifers populate the top of the cliff against a half clouded sky to the left and blue open sky to the right.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Trap got two piglets this morning. Three more to go. Saw all five when I checked at daybreak. Now if I and my house can survive the coming hurricane, things might be looking up. Today though, it sucks.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another of my Grammatophyllum scriptum orchids, this one perched on a lava stone pilar under the monkeypod tree. Very happy there. Love green flowers. #Grammatophyllum #orchids #tropicalflowers

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Guess who decided to start blooming? Canʻt wait for some longan. The tree may be a dwarf, it is only 2m tall but probably 6 years in the ground. #tropicalfruiit #longan #Dimocarpus

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This #WaterfallWednesday I bring you to a falls on the flanks of Mount Adams Washington! This one is the top tier of a falls called "Hellroaring Falls"! I was surprised by the bedrock it flows over being a shade of orange! #waterfall #Hiking

A waterfall dropping over short steps in it's orange bedrock down the center of the image. Tall green conifer trees rise up on either side, allowing a narrow view of a pale blue sky in between at center.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My Hedychium greenii, from the ginger family, finally bloomed its bright orange blossoms this week. I think I had it in my garden on Whidbey so it is a temperate ginger. AKA Red Butterfly Ginger. #Zingiberaceae #Hedychium #flowers

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Grammatophyllum scriptum, blooming in the monkeypod tree. Away from the demon piglets. Plus a singapore plumeria not caring at all.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Beautiful day, but watching the hurricane to the north of us. You can just see the very top of the outer edge of the storm, about 500 miles away. The swell is increasing and will probably hit in a day or two.

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A throw back #Stunday post for you! I've been lucky enough to visit #CraterLake a lot over my years, and for the image from this visit I had packed all my camera equipment to be able to get these! The #PhantomShip! (Link in the comments) #Oregon #PNW #NationalParks #Hiking #📷 #Geology #Nature

A close up of a blue lake surface with a jagged tall peaked small island with a few green conifer trees growing out of the rocky soil in a few places. The conifer trees are not as tall as the very abrupt pointy rock spires, of which there are four major ones. The whole island looks like it is composed of the same grey rock that rises steeply from the lake waters.
The shallows around the island have a green hue. The island's spires are reflected in the lake waters in dark blue.
The trees all seem to catch the sunlight, while most of the steep rock faces are in shade.
The water above and beyond the island is reflecting some other features in a blurry way that only gives the impression of colors and shapes.
This island is seen inside Crater Lake, Oregon in the USA.

A wider perspective on the jagged spired island in the lake.
The small island appears darker, with it's few small trees still in sunlight, but the rock of the tall spires and faces of the island are a dark grey to almost black. The islands reflection in the lake appears more mirror like in very dark blue. To the island's left, there is a small section of land almost the distance of the entire island away, with hues of green indicating shallow surface under the water.
Towering over the whole scene of the island in the lake is a sheer mountainous wall rising across the lake and up into the light blue sky overhead. From the shoreline of the giant cliff face to about one third of the way up are many green shrubs and trees clinging to places they can make do on the steep surface. The rest of the cliff face is a light tan to grey, and even some light reddish grey. Above all the plants clinging to the cliff are areas too steep or strewn with tumbled down rock to allow plants to thrive. In these areas there are many rock outcrops, and vertical cliff faces in shadow from the high Sun out of frame. Also above the plants are a few large snow fields toward the left, and one down low near the shore on the right.
U along the top of the cliffs is a mountain top to the upper left the descends a little to the left, and much more of the descending slope running to the right. A few small patches of snow cling to the base of the steepest cliffs and near the tops of the mountain slopes. The height of the mountain can be seen by how small the full grown trees look all along the upper edges.
This is seen inside Crater Lake, Oregon in the USA.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Chased these two out this afternoon by opening the back gate and scaring them to run that way. Other piglets, at least 2 or 3 are on the outside of the new fence so they socialize in the evenings. I are smarter than baby pig...

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In the cloud forest, headed down to the Peruvian Amazon. 2015

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Jos Buurmans | New Zealand @josbuurmans.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Reaching Goblin Arms - Taranaki, New Zealand. #photography #landscape #nz #halloween

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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Epic landscapes in Kyrgyzstan.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #AmongTheRipples here's an Ae'o making some of her own. :) #birds 🦉🌿📷

An Ae'o bent in feeding position over a mirror-still Kealia Pond, with ripples spreading from the point her beak touches the water. There's green pickleweed in the background

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Good morning Bluesky people! It's #WaterfallWednesday! This is Sahalie Falls on Oregon's McKenzie River! A very popular stop on the river, and one of two big falls on this section. #Hiking #Oregon #📷 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Forest

A photo selfie with me in a blue t shirt and a baseball cap with a big white beard, smiling and looking into the camera.
In the background is a big broad waterfall spilling over a tall cliff with a dense tall forest of green conifers at it's top. The ledge of the cliff is visible with an exposed grey stone ledge that runs right and left of the falls. Below the exposed ledge the cliff is undercut behind the falls with a lot of bright green mosses and ferns.
The falls widens out at it's bottom where it hits the pool of the river below, and spray shoots out all around.
In the foreground to the right are a couple logs covered in moss sticking out at upward angles over the river below.
The sky above the falls, and between the treetops is lightly overcast so that a little blue is visible through the clouds.
The lighting is fairly even and the sun is shining from high above out of frame.

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Kam Carlson @kamcarlson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Love hearing the surf crashing at night, and during the day for that matter. Taken 2/2024 at Honolulu Ahupuaʻa, about two kilometers from the house.

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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Well that was unexpected! 🤯 #Aroura #MountShasta #NightSkyPhotography 🧪 📷

A broad night sky photo with shades of mainly magenta across a large amount of the sky, and some red below that closer to the bottom of the frame, and a hint of green at lower right. Two bright magenta pillars of Aurora pierce downward in the sky, one just left of lower center, and another on the far bottom right. At the far left bottom is Mount Shasta riding from nearby smaller forested mountains that stretch all the way across the bottom of the image, and rising a bit on the lower right side.
Stars can also be seen through the colorful Aurora.

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 03/07/2026

In a wilderness where gale force winds & furious weather reign supreme, Patagonia's mount Cerro Torre is bathed in the warm light of the rising moon, while the stars reflect beautifully in its still waters. #photography #travel #nature #bluesky #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography

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