“Rooted Man”
Olympus TG-6 @ 9mm, f/4.5, 1/50s, ISO 1000. Oregon Manroot growing over a fern along the trail at Mount Pisgah.
“Pristine”
Olympus E-M10 IV with M.Zuiko 40-150mm lens @ 125mm, f/11, 1/259s, ISO 200. Safety railing around the railroad tracks in Truckee, seen from the window of the California Zephyr.
#mbjune Day 10: rail 📷
“Lost on a Yellow Planet”
Olympus TG-6 @ 11.9mm, f/5, 1/250s, ISO 125. Tiny fly in a balsam root flower along the trail at Mount Pisgah.
“Peeled”
Olympus TG-6 @ 18mm, f/6.3, 1/100s, ISO 800. Harvest Brodiaea (I think) along the trail at Mount Pisgah.
RFK Jr. fires CDC’s independent vaccine advisors
I’m selfishly happy that my own kids are old enough to have already gotten all their immunizations. But I fear for the next generation under this profoundly stupid and anti-science regime.
I see Apple has announced the size of this year’s tailfins. I’m super happy that I have no reason to pay attention to this nonsense any longer.
The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True
You can’t make this shit up. And hopefully you wouldn’t want to if you could. (And no, drinking bleach does not cure cancer, COVID, or autism.)
‘I would’: Trump says he’d arrest California Gov. Gavin Newsom
As far as I can tell this is not “arrest for a particular charge as required by the 6th Amendmen.” Rather it seems to be “arrest my political opponents so they can be disappeared.” More next-level dictator shit as expected from Trump.
Finished: The Boys of Everest, by Clint Willis 📚. A history of (some) British climbers from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. The author is a climber himself, and this book focuses quite a bit of attention on the innter mental and emotional states of various climbers. Some of this comes from interviews, some is inferred from letters and other documents or (I suspect) the author’s own experiences. Rings true and makes for a distinctly different climbing book, though it will be impossible to ever know how accurate some of this stuff is.
Pam Bondi’s brother crushed in DC Bar Association election
Take the tiny rays of sunshyine where you can get them.
“Good Morning”
Olympus TG-6 @ 8.4mm, f/4.5, 1/30s, ISO 1600. Columbia Lily along the trail at Mount Pisgah.
“The Trail Entices”
Olympus TG-6 @ 4.5mm, f/8, 1/50s, ISO 200. Trail at Mount Pisgah.
“Sand in the Gears”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/10, 1/125s, ISO 125. Driftwood near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
#mbjune Day 9: wood 📷
One sign that I’ve been vegan for many years: tofu-based “cheese” sauce actually tastes pretty good on noodles.
“Candystick”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/100s, ISO 2000. Close-up of the weird and wonderful candystick plant along the Rainbow Falls Trail.
“Who Dat?”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 15mm, f/8, 1/40s, ISO 320. The best travel is foot travel. This is me on the Cummins Creek Trail a few months back.
#mbjune Day 8: travel 📷
“Bears and Diamonds”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/16, 1/1250s, ISO 2500. Diamond Peak over flowering bear grass along the Eugene to Crest Trail.
“Moonscape”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 14mm, f/8, 1/400s, ISO 250. A high-intensity burn scar on the Eugene to Crest Trail along Bunchgrass Ridge.
