Love the outdoors, hiking, fishing, rockhounding, birding, the ocean and just being in nature. Author of "Washington's Pacific Coast; A Guide to Hiking, Camping, Fishing and Other Adventures." Former reporter at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Daily World and AOL. Every photo I post is my own unless otherwise noted.
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Last Notes npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…6gxq I think my dad’s experiences as a 20-year-old on Okinawa never left him, I’m convinced they shortened his life. He did his best to walk away from it, and he accomplished a lot, but it shaped the rest of his life. He didn’t encourage my brother and me to serve. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…hsl0 Just tonight, in our own way, youngest son and I. He’s a soldier and I asked him if he thought he would be deployed, told him how worried I was. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Current view from camp, Point of the Arches, Olympic National Park. #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…dyu0 It had a limited production/supply area for a long time, it wasn’t available in the PNW until maybe the late 70s or early 80s. So we always wanted it, occasionally friends would bring some back from trips to CO or elsewhere it was available. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…prl4 I don’t follow many big accounts either, other than some news people and I think one or two politicians, tend to avoid accounts that follow very few but have tons of followers. Just ‘cause I’m wary of what they’re preaching/selling. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…prl4 Could you have just blocked the bridgy account? Not criticizing but wouldn’t that be an option? What I did. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…s67t I think that’s probably true, but also Trump actually admires nationalistic thuggery and wants to be just like Pooty. Also, he hates Zelensky. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…s67t Just disgusting what our lying, corrupt dictator is trying to do. 🖕🏼 him. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…rl4d @nprofile…h4mp Read the story, the biologist has a hypothesis on that. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…rl4d That's nuts, wolves are so smart. @nprofile…h4mp check this out. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…vgqe Do you have javalina there? That would be my guess. Seems too long for a coyote skull and the canines are wrong. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…s67t That’s awesome. What variety of grape? npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…s67t Where do you get the grapes? Or do you grow them? npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston On our return from a successful fishing campout, grandson and I hiked the Lake Lenore Caves. They’re spectacular and compelling, served as shelter to hunting parties of the Sinkiuse and perhaps earlier cultures, created by ancient basaltic lava flows and then epic Ice Age floods. #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Messy pile of monster driftwood serves as a dry crossing of a creek on the Olympic Coast, for #ThickTrunkTuesday #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Leftover pics from the last week. Go #Mariners! #Hiking #Birding #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…wuyc It could be a young tom, it’s difficult for them to find their own territory, the older toms push them into marginal habitat and they’re often the ones that get into trouble around civilization. I worked a few times with a Washington state wildlife biologist who specialized in cougars, that’s what he would say, “probably a young tom.” npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Saturday morning beaver frolics, these two are wrasslin, splashin, rollin and tumblin, creating quite a ruckus. Maybe later they went into the lodge and got frisky, I don't know! 👀 #Hiking #Beavers #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Finally got an OK photo of a belted kingfisher, a male, not terrific due to very gray skies and poor light, and found this wet raccoon creeping around the reeds. Our kingfishers are noisy and busy but never close enough! #Hiking #Birding #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Critter pics from hikes over the last few days, another shot of Sunday's barred owl. #Hiking #Birding Please use #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Tahoma capped by a lenticular cloud, with a good look at two of its glaciers, Nisqually Glacier on the left, Cowlitz Glacier on the right, split by the Cowlitz Cleaver. I think I shot this from Camp Muir, 2006. #MountainMonday #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Little greenie on this morning’s ramble. #Hiking #Birding #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Double batch of MegaGrega blueberry zuchini muffins, add twice as many blueberries and vanilla extract, extra pecans, replace some of the white sugar with brown sugar and honey and whole wheat for one-third of the flour. 😋 #Gardening #GrowYourOwn npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…lvhv yep, a friend last year helped me install Mint on my 2012 MacBook Pro, which I hadn’t used in five or six years. It’s again my primary device. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…fe4j Just opened two warmblueberry/zuchini muffins, but cut em with a knife and slathered em in butter. 😋 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston As I’ve mentioned I have no cats! Therefore I give you this trippy turquoise specimen for #SaturFrog. It the subject of a rare genetic condition known as axanthism, it lacks the ability to produce yellow pigmentation. Our fav bullfrog, we’ve seen it twice in our local wetlands park. #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Trail through the basalt along a series of caves, in Central Washington, for #FootPathFriday. #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…fe4j had a discussion with my granddaughter about that, her not wanting to talk or be touched quite often, told her I get it completely. Sometimes I dont want to talk and need some social distance. She has been diagnosed as autistic, I never was. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…sh24 love columnar basalt, we’ve got a lot in the inland NW. hope your recovery is speedy. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…aqq5 I’ll ask my friend @nprofile…9nlx. Tanya? 🙂 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…3z5d Gemacht. Ich will es nicht nackt lassen. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Hurry up dammit! #Gardening #Tomatoes #GrowYourOwn npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…ufmf I voted, always do, but don't like summer elections. People are busy enjoying the weather, vacationing and such, not thinking about voting. This was an important local election too, three city council seats for me, including my favorite who is in a tough race, King County exec, important county parks levy. These all have an impact on lives, on quality of life. Next fall, 2026, people need to get off their patooties and vote or we're twice fucked. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…fe4j Like me planning things when drinking. Not always a good idea. 😅 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…ufmf Dump Nelson, I'm not a Seattle resident, but I hope voters demote her to the City Dump Board, with JP and Gertrude. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…ufmf We hear owls every so often. Yesterday though in the middle of the day a pack of coyotes in the nearby woods set off howling like crazy for several minutes. Sounded like a dozen or more. We haven't seen them lately but assuming a family with pups. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Spotted a green heron for the first time in months on the morning ramble, and it performed a feather floof for us, as well as various other poses. #Hiking #Birding #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston My sweetie spotted these boys out lounging in the shade behind our place, delighted since we are in the process of being surrounded by $2 million-$3 million McMansions. We don’t see them as often and I’m certain soon we will not see them much at all. Privileged though to enjoy them around us for as long as we have. #BackyardWildlife npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…sh24 such a cool ruin, when we hiked it there was no one else around, pretty special. That’s a terrific shot. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…sh24 Hovenweep? npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Curious sightings on the Sunday morning ramble, a bullfrog so magical if I were younger I might've caught it and gave it a lick. And, after hearing but not seeing Virginia rails for weeks, got lucky and spotted one in the open. This is why I #GetOutside. #Hiking #Birding #Alttext npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston We jammin’! Raspberry yesterday, blueberry today, all berries from last year’s crop, had em in the freezer. Canned 16 half-pint jars. #Gardening #GrowYourOwn npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Raspberries headed for the freezer, we are overrun, with blueberries too. #Gardening #GrowYourOwn npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…ysde Cancun Cruz, what a sleazebarrel. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston First pesto of the season, basil and garlic from the garden. I did not grow the pine nuts or make the Parmesano Reggiano. 😅 #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston The base and swell of a near -record Sitka spruce tree in the Queets Rain Forest for #ThickTrunkTuesday. #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…wuyc I would like to seed my lawn with clover, it grows naturally but I’d like to get it thick. It doesn’t require much watering, attracts pollinator and looks cool. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…0g46 same thing has happened to the size of Chinook salmon in runs all along the West Coast, from Oregon to Alaska. Fisheries tend to select for the largest, from nets, trolled lines and even to killer whales, which prefer the biggest fattest kings. Plus the way humans have destroyed their prime habitats has had a huge impact on wild runs, leaving smaller hatchery Chinook in the majority. It’s sad. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…79d7 An essential native shrub of the maritime NW. Lot of my youth was spent roaming forests full of Oregon grape and salal. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…ufmf Not a resident of Seattle but don't much like Nelson. Taggers will find these billboards fun I'm sure. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston So excited I've coined a new word, I'm ecstatical! Spotted the first PNW native western pond turtle I've ever seen, classified by Washington state as a species at risk. It is the subject of a reintroduction project and apparently it's working. All I've seen here before are several introduced turtle species. Did send pics to state fish and wildlife. Also saw on the morning ramble another native that I see often, a blacktailed deer, in the marsh grass. #Hiking #AltText . npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Still harvesting garlic, these are Chinese pinks, just pulled from the soil. #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…ysde Shit is about to get real. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…79d7 such a fabulous park, definitely one of the jewels of Seattle’s parks. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…rrhg The DNA doesn't lie but I'm still wigged out by the provenance of the skull. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Gnarly old bigleafed maple from yesterday’s hike for #ThickTrunkTuesday. #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…rrhg Reminds me of the various reconstructions of Cheddar Man, which I looked up last night after eating English cheddar cheese. It always makes me think of Cheddar Man. 😅 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…eeal Nice! I’ve never been up there. Was close once, there are a couple nice lake hikes a bit beyond Spada, maybe the Grieder Lakes? Was hoping for an early season backpack but it was too early for those trails so did Lake Dorothy. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…eqw3 5-2 and a mile high 🙏🏻 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…eqw3 thank you for standing up for America 🇺🇸 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz Good to see the sky skipper out and about. He’s a pilot yeah? npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Nice morning light in the woods on today's hike through one of our local parks. If you're allergic to the color green this place will give you hives. #Hiking #GetOutside #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz It's hard to hear that, my 1st sergeant son just shipped out to Korea for nine months, his wife and two daughters bawling their eyes out. He's served in Afghanistan and two other "'stans," as he says, Thailand, Philippines, Germany, Kuwait, twice before in Korea. So far he hasn't suffered what Summer's pal has, but it each time he leaves it doesn't get easier for family, it gets harder. Meantime the fascist in charge calls soldiers and vets "suckers" and "losers." Makes me so mad. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Some pics from recent hikes, the sapsucker was from this morning's jaunt, the others last week. #Hiking #Birding #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…8hjr I’ll have to ask my son about that, he works at UPS. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Some curious sights on the morning ramble, usually I don't take pics of the bun buns because they're everywhere, but this one was posing nicely. We saw much more I wasn't able to capture well through a lens, like an osprey diving successfully on a fish. #Hiking #GetOutside #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz Sounds line your raised an amazing human being, all the effort she puts in, dahlia expert, protesting regularly on the street. 🙏🏻 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Mega frustrated after the morning ramble, seeing and hearing lots of migrant tweeties, yellow and Wilson's warblers, warbling vireos, common yellowthroats, western peewees and others. They torment me with sweet song but flit and flit and never sit still. Did get one shot of a western tanager, so colorful! Fun hike though, saw lots of beavers too. #Hiking #Birding #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday #Hiking #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…ufmf Good song, reminds me of growing up in the Great Northwet. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Everything’s abloom in the PNW right now and although I suck at macro photography, lately I make a (feeble) effort. Mainly because the stinkin’ migrating tweeties refuse to sit still. So here are great camas (extremely important to indigenous people), Pacific ninebark and western trumpet honeysuckle, all NW native species spotted on the morning ramble. #Bloomscrolling #Hiking #GetOutside #AltText npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…79d7 I’ve got some tomatoes, cukes and zukes indoors under lights but they won’t go out right away, the tomatoes not until June. I do have some beans in the garden that I started indoors and lots of onions, plus the garlic I planted last fall. Worried a bit about this rainy cool-down in the forecast for the next several days. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…79d7 I tried to search the meaning but search engines are so bad anymore, even DuckDuck sucks. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Keep seeing on Bloosky but do not fully understand the hashtag #EastCoastKin. Anybody? npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Yikes, apparently four climbers coming down off a single anchor point that failed, three dead. Too sad. #Climbing #NorthCascades npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Good morning for warblers down at the lake, plus beavers were active around their huge mud and log condo, so big we now call it a townhouse, it has two entries and we suspect two chambers. Only got a shot of a yellowthroat, but we heard/saw also yellow and Wilson's warblers, plus a warbling vireo. Also spotted a brown creeper at home. #Hiking #Birding npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz what vegies did you plant? Granddaughter and I planted some pole beans today. We had started them indoors a week or two ago in peat pots. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…79d7 have two in my yard, one next to the porch. Helped myself to them from a clearcut on the coast when they were small, about 15 years ago. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz @nprofile…p73g hoping I can sleep better and not wake up sniffling and snotty. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz @nprofile…p73g Pollen is bad here too, just got an air purifier for the bedroom, we’ll see if it helps. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Ginormous Sitka spruce at Fort Columbia State Park for #ThickTrunkTuesday. #Hiking npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…gu6d They are just the coolest birds, striking, swoopy as they fly and occasionally goofy. Once I came upon one in early winter in an apple tree hammering on a rotten brown apple, boy the sauce was flying! npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Found woody hammering away on the morning nimble bimble, plus mama ducks and beavers. #Hiking #Birding #GetOutside npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz Just discovered my raspberry bushes have orange rust, they’re toast for the year, I’m crushed 😢 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz My sweetie right now is making a raspberry-blueberry pie, we have to use up last year's berries! I just finished putting up trellises for the beans, planning to grow extra this year because of the way things are going. Getting ready to give the garlic a drink of fish fertilizer. Hope Summer's pal is feeling better. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Knocking about the south #WashingtonCoast this week, clamming, #Hiking and stuff. #GetOutside npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Inspired by a #MountainMonday post from @nprofile…7w93, here's yours truly atop the rim of Looit, or Mount St. Helens, in July of 2006. Climbed it as a trainer for Tahoma (Mount Rainier), which I climbed a couple weeks later. Anyhow, Brian I encourage you to get up there. And take our buddy @nprofile…tk32! It is a fabulous experience, that was my third climb up there. #Hiking #GetOutside npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday #Hiking #WashingtonState npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston More shots from hikes in the last week, five otters and a big beaver’s big tail. #Hiking #GetOutside npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Homeland Security Barbie can’t even secure her goddamn purse, loses $3000 and passport to thief. Another administration cartoon character. 🙄 npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston #SilentSunday #Hiking npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston @nprofile…xzjz the geese sure are flying, was out on the coast last three days, saw and heard lots of honkers. Also saw uncommonly large numbers of dowitchers foraging at the edge of the surf, they must be migrating too. npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Son, grandson and gramps went razor clam digging on the morning minus tide, here we are with one limit, we all got our limits (15 clams each). #WashingtonCoast #WashingtonState #GetOutside npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston Good evening from Moclips. #Sunset #WashingtonState #WashingtonCoast npub1xr0hmnjm6sdf5h7mcwdnekqgzcpy8fz43mw84zetsqlspytjm59slwgaev Greg Johnston My old house, 125 South Academy, was shabby then, $200/month rent, lots nicer than its derelict condition now. Had a front mud room with windows, great for our house plants. Almost four years there, while working my first newspaper job. Drove by today, time changes everything.
