Steve

@steve-d.bsky.social

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Traffic engineer and dad of triplets. Nerd about lots of stuff... hiking, PNW, weather, science, photography, baseball.

View of a cliff face above a forested valley with a mountain goat traversing the ledges.
Garfield Mountain rises in the background under a mostly clear sky and above the Middlefork Snoqualmie River with blue-green water and gray boulders in the foreground and a tree lined riverbank in the middle.
Dan Auerbach playing guitar on the far right with Patrick Kearney on drums under an illuminated marquee above the stage. The duo played a few songs before the rest of their crew joined in.
Tall grass, yellow Balsamroot, and purple Lupine face toward a distant Mount Hood on the other side of the river gorge.
Passengers sitting and standing on one of the first westbound 2 Line trains ever leaving the South Bellevue station.
A partly cloudy sky reflects in a lake.
A telephoto shot of distant red and brown cliffs with shadows from scattered clouds in the distance. In the foreground, a barren plain is broken by a deep crevasse with a glimpse of the banded canyon walls carved by the Colorado River.
A high contrast scene looking into a shadowy slot canyon under a bright sky. The canyon is approximately 10 feet tall carved through tan and reddish banded sloped rock. The floor of the canyon is sandy with footprints and broken rocks.
The white topped dome of Twin Brothers with an orange and red banded base peeks through canyon walls in bright sunshine and in front of a blue sky contrasting with the dark shadows on the walls in the foreground.
Julio Rodriguez and Ichiro Suzuki chat while stretching during outfield practice
A pink and white swirled dome rock formation in the center and foreground, three boys sitting with arms raised on the peak, and distant rainbow color rocks in the Valley of Fire.
Photo taken near the West Tiger 1 summit looking northwest with the timber line in the foreground, West Tiger 2 summit with radio tower on the right, Puget Sound, Seattle, and Bellevue in the center, and the Olympic Mountains in the distance.
A pale yellow (brown-lipped?) snail with a yellow and black shell rests on a fallen leaf
Lenticular clouds undulate downstream of a snow-capped Mount Rainier with a yellow-orange sky from the low winter sun and a tree line at the bottom near side of the photo.
Orange and red light reflects off cloud bottoms with a sky gradient of blue to orange, with rolling waves and a darkened shoreline below.
A large white and green vehicular ferry is mid-journey in the foreground with the City of Everett behind it and snowy Whitehorse Mountain and Three Fingers in the background.
View of sky reflecting off the water through tall pines. Scattered clouds with orange and yellow sunset colors seen near the horizon with mountains in the distance.
Broken clouds with patches of blue sky reflect on a still lake surface with a centered composition, and the far shore of the lake with houses and trees with some fall color in the center.
View from a cliff edge overlooking a blue alpine lake with snow in the forested shadows of a mountain to the right and fall colors and bare talus to the left, with a valley scene and distant snow capped mountains in the background.
Larch trees turning yellow on a steep rocky slope above a lake, with larches on the other side of the valley and mountains in the distance.
View of Mount Rainier looking southwest from the road to Sunrise with a meadow and conifers in the foreground. Little Tahoma is on the left, with Emmons Glacier draped on the mountain in the center, and the peak obscured by a wispy cloud hovering under broken clouds above.
Ice-capped Mount Rainier seen in the distance under clearing skies in the late morning. Fog fills the valleys including Snoqualmie Pass in the foreground in front of Tinkham Peaks and Mount Catherine and behind a ridge lined with conifers at the bottom of the image.
Wind formed waves in the sand surface represented by alternating dark and light bands of sand, with clumps of grasses and distant evergreens under a sea fog covered sky.
A large yellow and black banana slug in the dirt on the side of the trail. One of about a dozen seen.
Photo near the top of a mountain with rocky and treed slopes to the left and a large conifer to the right. Ice capped Mt. Rainier is in the far background with the City of North Bend at the bottom of the valley.
View toward a mountain valley and lake from near the edge of a cliff with a boulder in the foreground. Broken clouds overhead and an expanse of conifers beyond a blue and green lake.
Photo framed by conifers on both sides looking down through a forest at a lake reflecting an overcast sky, with tree covered mountains behind the lake and a snow capped mountain, partially obscured by clouds, in the far distance.
View from the bottom of a steep valley bordered by evergreens with a waterfall in the bottom center. Just above the waterfall are distant bright green meadows broken by dark green conifers. In the distance is Mount Rainier with glaciers, ice cliffs, and melting snowfields under a clear blue sky.
A close up photo of a juvenile Bald Eagle with brown and white feathers sitting in a tree overlooking the beach.
Macro photo of a cluster of orange trumpet vine flowers focused on yellowish stamen anthers, with the blooms lined up in a row and an out of focus flower in the background showing the classic trumpet shape.
Low clouds obscure the far side of a lake shoreline with granite and talus slopes in the background, with the calm lake seen from a viewpoint next to an old stump and through pine trees.
Photo of Upper Granite Lake, with the south shore lined by evergreen topped cliffs with a talus slope base from lake edge to half way up the cliffs. Some trees are growing in the talus at the lake edge and other greenery starts about halfway up the slopes. Several large rocks are in the foreground at the near side lake edge. The distant water is a sea green color, with the near side translucent showing brown rocks just below the surface. A blue sky is overhead at the top of the frame. Morning light gives dark shadows on the trees above the cliffs.
A green and gray Anna’s Hummingbird gets nectar from a clump of blooming orange and yellow trumpet vine growing in brown lattice
View from a bridge looking down toward a clear pool of water surrounded by rocks and greenery of the lower forest, with several short cascades of white falls coming down the mountainside.
Close up shot of white iris stamen with blue "veins" on the petals
Very bright green undergrowth of ferns and moss along the trail
A pink tulip wide open in midday sun
Photo shows two mountains in the background, with the mountain on the right larger and closer, under a sunrise-lit high cloud. In the foreground evergreens line the roadside pullout from where the photo was taken, and stretch into the distance to the base of the mountains.
Gentle eroded slopes of the hills of the western side of Yakima Canyon viewed from the Baldy Mountain trail in the Wenas Wildlife Area.
Photo looking south into the crater of Mt. St. Helens with snow melted at lower elevations in the devastated area.
A cone shaped snow capped mountain is seen behind rock formations of Arches National Park.
Photo of the view from between Tiger 3 and Tiger 2 showing the logged top of Tiger 3 with Lake Sammamish to the right, I-90, and downtown Bellevue in the center, and Lake Washington and the edge of the Olympics in the upper portion.
View looking directly up at the tan and orange Double Arch with blue sky background in Arches National Park.
View looking east through a tan and brown natural arch, with rocky fins in the foreground and valley in the distance under a blue sky.
Photo captures a view from the canyon rim of the sloped Gibbon Falls waterfall as fog clears in the morning. Dead and live pine trees line the bottom of the canyon and frame the photo, with a large tan rock wall to the left and a group of explorers walking in dry spots at the base of the falls.
Point of view photo along a narrow dirt trail cut into the middle of a forested slope near the edge of the tree line looking toward a clearing revealing a mountain in the distance straight past the trail.
Mount Stuart is centered in the photo with a very steep and rocky stop giving way to a forested lower slope as viewed across the valley from a golden larch covered and snow dusted rocky slope under a blue sky.
A high contrast scene of a textured tan sand due filling the bottom two thirds of the photo, with a blue sky and high, wispy stratus clouds.
A high contrast late morning photo of a snow brushed mountain range on the right with a scree filled valley stretching to the left, with emerald conifers and fall colors of orange and red bushes in the foreground.
View of ice capped Mount Rainier from the south seen through a line of pine trees situated at the edge of a pond, with the mountain, emerald trees, and deep blue sky reflected in the water.
A wide angle view of a muddy trail switchback surrounded by a grassy slope above the sandy outlet of the sinuous Salmon River. In the distance morning fog burns off the coastline with high clouds above and white waves crashing through teal waters onto the beach.
Scene from a coastal Oregon forest of a strand of three Sitka Spruce trees with one having two horizontal branches draped in ferns.
A meandering geyser-fed stream with orange mineral stains and green algae is pictured, with tourists walking along a boardwalk in the distance.
A high contrast view looking into sun glaring off the ocean down to a natural bridge framed by pine trees above teal blue Pacific ocean water, with a tree topped sea stack just beyond the bridge to the left.