Dang, Little Whittle missed me! Two weeks away and I spot it in the creek on the morning ramble. It sees us and swims right up. My fav beaver. They were active today, others munching on fresh reed grass. #Hiking #Beavers #GetOutside.
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I mentioned a couple of days ago that we had a #weather forecast for #rain + #snow possibly quite a bit. It stayed rain longer than forecast, finally going white (for a short time) late his morning; stopped for now, but still a possibility of 10-20cm through tomorrow night. Yesterday afternoon when it was just wet / kinda dark I took a short walk on the acreage- I like the #forest best when it's wet! #mosstodon #GoOutsideForMe #GetOutside #Alberta #Canada #SolaceInNature #nature #BorealForest
65° days demand an after work run on the beach!
I took #photos on #MacroMonday but just getting some posted today! How about #TextureTuesday ? or #TwiggyTuesday #TranquilTuesday
These are Aspen Populus tremuloides catkins just beginning to emerge.
#nature #Alberta #Canada #GetOutside #GoOutsideForMe #BorealForest #spring #winter #sprinter
No free shuttle for me! On days like today when my car is getting worked on, I turn it into a #cycling adventure. After driving to the mechanic with my bike on the back of the car, I cycle home taking a very scenic route. Then return by bike to pick up my car. Do this year ‘round, rain or shine (and it is shining bright today! 
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 8. This giant boulder seems eerily prescient, like something out of a fantasy novel. Perhaps someone (or some thing) threw it off the cliff at the last people who passed this way.
Anyway, for more about how this landscape formed, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 7. You can't go wrong with waterfalls and columnar basalt. Orange lichen on rabbit brush. Also does anyone recognize these giant reeds? Is this invasive pampas grass or something native? I don't know many of the plants here at all. 7/8
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 6. Small video: turn the sound up. It's frog breeding season in the still water of the coulee lakes, and they're going crazy. Some spring birds there too. 6/8
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 5. Here's some closeups of the main rock attraction here: columnar basalt, a result of ancient lava flows (way more ancient than the lakes). I keep wondering where all this lava came from-- the nearest existant volcano is probably Mt Rainier, over 130km away. 5/8
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 4. This is a state park. Strangely, the trails aren't very well marked and in order to see all the good parts you have to drive round the outside to a couple different trailheads. But on a weekday in March, it's blissfully quiet and empty. I saw only maybe 6 people all day. 4/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 3. This place is called "Ancient Lakes" and it's right by "The Gorge" amphitheater (WA people will know this place for its outdoor concerts). Ironically this system of coulees (canyon like flood channels) was formed by post-Ice Age glacial runoff, which in geological time isn't ancient at all-- it's like the day before yesterday. 3/8 #PNW #Washington #hiking #geology #iceage #getoutside #outdoors
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Hiking Ancient Lakes part 2. The Columbia Gorge (which has the Columbia River running through it) is kind of unimaginably huge. The snow capped ridges in the distance are like 50km away and the river itself is beyond the nearer cliffs and lakes, but before the snowy ridges, hidden in a literal gorge some 500(?) meters below any of the ground you see here. 2/8
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First hiking thread of 2025. This is the time of year that those of us in the Puget Sound region get tired of the rain, and after a very waterlogged weekend, I struck out East, across the Cascades, to the Columbia Gorge. 1/8
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@helenclayton Thank you for sharing the phrase “once the lurk has lifted.” #getoutside
Haven’t had one of these for a while, as we head into another week. Glorious spring day once the lurk had lifted.
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Good day!
Cold, with periods of rain, but I’ll walk.
A stranger asked, yesterday, if I had anything fun planned. I mentioned editing, which led to my book & she became excited. As I walked away, I could hear her repeating the title so she wouldn’t forget.
The things that happen when you oversleep & can’t think straight.
Be everwell.