Seagull showing off its fish by the Pt. Defiance ferry terminal. #tacoma #washington #pacificnorthwest #birds #pugetsound
Tugboat in the passage
Not a black and white photo.
http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2012/05/ww-tugboat-in-passage.html
I was glad to see Harvard take a stand against the Trump administration, and am now very happy to see so many colleges and universities sign on to this statement about academic freedom:
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement
In particular, I'm happy to see several institutions I've worked for or attended there: the University of Wisconsin -- Madison; the University of Puget Sound, and my upcoming Macalester College.
(Hey, University of Minnesota, my PhD institution: you should sign too!)
WW: More oyster mushrooms
Never gets old.
http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/04/ww-more-oyster-mushrooms.html
#beach, #blessing, #food, #hermitcraft, #maple, #mushroom, #PugetSound, #wildedibles, #WordlessWednesday
Container ship at the end of the rainbow on Puget Sound. Unusual thing is it's a US flagged ship coming from Kodiak Alaska. #pugetsound #seattle #Containership #rainbow
It is the fourth calf born to the southern resident orcas since December. Two of the four have died already.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/endangered-baby-orca-spotted-pacific-northwest-j-pod
#KUOW #News #Orcas #EndangeredSpecies #PugetSound #Animals #Environment
This 8x8 oil painting on canvas board of the puget sound on a hazy day is up on my shop for sale now! all varnished and ready to go.
https://maggiepaintsnprints.etsy.com/listing/1885938252/puget-sound-blue-8x8-original-oil
The penultimate of the North America #Petrofuture maps...Washington State.
Melted ice caps on a vintage Shell gas station map.
The #Petrofuture map of Seattle...we’re getting close to the end of the North American Petrofuture tour. Melted ice caps on a vintage Shell gas station map.
Now in Washington State, we’re getting close to the end of the North American tour. The #Petrofuture map of Tacoma. Melted ice caps on a vintage Mobil gas station map. More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/ #climateChange #maps #cartography #climateCrisis #greenWashing #WashingtonState #worldBuilding #pugetSound #Tacoma
View of tonight’s storm maker from the GOES West satellite.
NOAA has posted a severe #Thunderstorm watch for western Washington and part of Oregon.
#WAwx #ORwx #Seattle #PugetSound
Professional weather guy Michael Snyder has posted his daily YouTube video for the unusual #lightning and #thunderstorm event that will be rolling through Oregon and Washington later today and tonight. His videos are always very informative.
#WAwx #ORwx #Seattle #PugetSound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZNk3D8aez0
A few photos from the #beach this weekend, visiting #HarstineIsland. The last photo was taken at
Raggedy Ass Point, which is a FANTASTIC name.
"Sound" teableau for 13Mar25
A nod to some of the things on or in Puget Sound: Lighthouses. Giant Pacific Octopus. Sailboat. People who paint Giant Pacific Octopuses on spoons.
"Sixty years later: More than 100,000 tires from failed reef plan are coming out of Puget Sound" https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/thousands-tires-failed-reef-plan-puget-sound/281-dae51aef-0db7-4ca0-9af4-7bd90f1afdf8
Kind of sounds like back in the day, they were like "hey we have all these old tires. Why don't we dump them in the ocean and call it an artificial reef?"
forgot to post this one on friday
this part of the overlook makes way more sense in person to me
plus I like the two-colour sky
