Greg Johnston

@gpjohnston.bsky.social

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Retired newspaper reporter and author who loves being outside, hiking, birding, fishing, photography.

Bullfrog laying flat on the surface behind a lily pad, huge eyes and Jabba face, lookin as tho he don't care what you are or was or will be.
A pretty pink cone of a hardhack blossoms, the flower of a bush called Douglas spirea, a pod that looks like hundreds of tiny flowers, with a fuzzy black and yellow bumblebee hovering near it. You can see the bee’s blurred wings and aentenna and the shot is close enough that it shows its furry-fuzzy body.
Closeup photo of a little brown bird clinging to a tree trunk, looking left with a thin curved pointed beak and long tail feathers that support it on the tree. The light is soft which brings out details in its pretty tan, brown and buff feathers sort of cascading down its back.
A beaver swimming toward the camera, providing a close up of its face.
Alt text A tall classically pointed mountain full of rocky ridges on its flanks, with glaciers and snowfields in the folds. In the foreground is a series of lower, forested ridges between the mountain and the photographer, hazy blue sky above.
A guy is jumping feet first from a rounded cliff into the blue green waters of a lake on a hot summer day, where another guys is swimming, having just also jumped.
Pictures of a pretty river flowing gently through a green forest, blue sky above.
A backpacker with trekking poles pauses to look at the ocean shore and sea stacks ahead.
Two large beavers, one with reddish fur and the other almost blond, in the water of the stream with their faces against each other, their noses together and in the air, while playfully wrestling.
A vine maple in autumn lights up a green forest with scarlet tones, pinks and yellows with its tall, delicate foliage.
A young black-tailed deer buck stands in a meadow of tall grass with its head raised while chewing on leaves and white flowers of a dogwood tree.
A small bird that is mostly yellow with a black mask across its face, perched on a limb.
A brilliant almost psychedelic sunrise above a lake, with a point of land projecting out into the water.
A backpacker wades a muddy stream in a narrow, twisting red rock canyon.
A woman leans against a tree while photographing a rainbow rising above the sea after a rain squall.
Photo of a large Chinook salmon in shallow water of a small stream. From the attached story.
Several long stems topped by pretty blue flowers, atop a mound in a meadow.
Crazy wavy purple and pink clouds beyond a pasture and above a forested hill, just after sunset and before darkness, horizontally under a fading blue sky.
Two nice-sized blond morels held in an open hand, the classic pitted cone shape, laced with curly ribs.