Dave Smith

A forest in silhouette down low with fog and low clouds behind and above. Beyond that two forested ridges recently dusted with snow. Under very cloudy skies ☮️ Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. -Pema Chodron

southeast of Gates, Oregon

A small grouping of purple Crocus’s are amongst the newly arrived greenery! They are wonderful little pops of happy! 😃

Joyous greetings in the garden today! 📷 🌱

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

Send in the clowns!

BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.

A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

SMUT FROM COMMUNISTS

Some excellent headlines from the April 1963 National Eagle, the Portland, OR newspaper edited by the future chair of the Oregon Republican Party.

Yep, those bridges were reopened in 2023 and in the fall of 2025 the state put down new gravel from Pluvius to Lebam, so that section is in excellent condition!

In a narrow city alley, a masked pedestrian walks past a slender vending machine glowing with the promise of coffee, while another figure lingers in the distance. The black-and-white frame turns an ordinary street into a study of quiet routine and modern solitude.

Alleyway Boss (Tokyo, NOV 2024)

📷 Nikon Zf B&W mode
🔘 Nikon 24-70mm f/2.4

#urbangaze #humansofbluesky #Nikon #NikonZf #ClassicMono #B&W #photography #streetlife
#streetphotography #Tokyo #Japan #スナップ写真 #白黒 #モノクロ

Such a fantastic trail! I rode from Adna to Pe Ell and back today. Last week I rode from Pe Ell to LeBam and back...the new gravel in that section is super nice!

Amtrak would be an awesome way to get close to this trail. It goes all the way to South Bend, Washington!

A gravel trail covered in leaves stretches out to the horizon.

The railing on a bridge extends from the foreground to the background. The chain link resembles a spider web

A red cab semi truck hauling a load of logs heads along a tree lined road.

A bicycle on a tree lined gravel road covered in leaves

Nice day for a little gravel ride on the Willapa Hills Trail.

#bikesky #fujifilm #gravel

Hakeem Jeffries calls it “unforced errors.”

As Oliver points out here, it’s called stealing every headline.

Idrees Ali @idreesali114 X.com There are now 12 U.S. warships in the Middle East. This does not account for the Ford Carrier and its support ships, which have not entered the U.S. Central Command area. 12:40 PM • 2/24/26 • 9.3K Views

Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe X.com Abraham Lincoln Canberra Delbert D. Black Frank E. Petersen Jr. John Finn McFaul Michael Murphy Mitscher Pinckney Santa Barbara Spruance Tulsa Plus the Ford carrier strike group and two additional destroyers (Bulkeley and Roosevelt) nearby in EUCOM.

There are now 12 US warships in the Middle East, and the Ford carrier strike group and two additional destroyers are nearby to the north in the Mediterranean.

Such massive US military buildup has not taken place since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

The mist has cleared above the tree line bringing Winter’s blue sky into view. Mid tree line the mist is heavy and only visible because of the Suns rays flowing through creating a burst of morning light.

A feeling of two worlds joining forces 📷🕊️ ….

It would be cool for the Democratic Party to be culturally normal by normalizing trans rights, affordable housing, universal healthcare, abolishing the DHS, and taxing billionaires.

AG Rayfield takes action to protect voting access

“This just adds new hoops to jump through to vote. For married women whose birth certificates don’t reflect their current legal names, this could mean extra costs, paperwork, and hurdles just to register. We can keep our elections secure without making it harder for eligible Oregonians to participate.”

AG Rayfield and a multistate coalition are urging the U.S. Senate to reject the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, warning the legislation would unlawfully nationalize election administration, impose sweeping new barriers to voter registration, and disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans. If enacted, this act would effectively eliminate online, mail-in, and automatic voter registration nationwide.

This legislation would disproportionately harm working-class Americans, rural voters, young people, and people whose legal names no longer match their birth certificates – including nearly 80% of married women. This is an unprecedented power grab that would strip states of their long-recognized authority over elections and dismantle modern voter registration systems that voters and election officials across the country rely on.

We are urging the U.S. Senate to reject the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. This legislation would threaten mail-in voting, unlawfully nationalize election administration, and disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans.

"The President Must Be Removed From Office"

Zeteo is calling today for Donald Trump to be democratically removed from office, via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The evidence, as laid out by Zeteo's @andrewperez.bsky.social in today's First Draft, suggests he is unfit.
zeteo.com/p/time-for-t...

A purple lupin amid greenery in the sunshine

A tiny pink flower sits in the grass on a sunny afternoon

A dirt path through oak trees, with a stream to the right from recent California rains

Small bluish flowers bloom on a tree

Seen on a hike today

Oh my bad!

The scenery definitely made up for the cold conditions!

Is that the cheek wing 5000?

Carving in a wooden door featuring people kneading something in a bucket, a bicycle with small creature on it, and a lot of X's.

Wooden door panel carved by Dada Areogun of Osi village, Ekiti State, Nigeria
1924

My Kona Sutra LTD bicycle leans against a fench. There is snow on the ground. A golden meadow with silver green trees is in the background.

A young light colored bison trots through a muddy pasture.

A golden meadow with a large solitary tree. The sky is blue with some puffy clouds.

A bull and cow elk graze on grass in a meadow.

Wintery Ride

Chilly conditions yesterday on the Willapa Hills Trail, but I saw the bison and a herd of elk!
#bikesky #fujifilm

Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.

1. Major corporations — including General Motors, State Farm, JPMorgan Chase, Delta, and Microsoft — are bankrolling a political ad from Senate candidate Andy Barr featuring a white nationalist slogan.

A solitary, leafless tree stands on a grassy hill against a cloudy sky in black and white.

Quiet resilience

#photography #blackandwhite

A dog sits centre on a rock in a rusty coloured landscape, snow covered Lakeland fells in the background, a glimpse of Coniston water to the right

A black and white dog poses sideways on standing on a make shot cairn (pile of rocks) snow covered Lakeland fells behind her the snow line like it’s been drawn on with a ruler

Looking down on a tarn, surface smooth as glass, surrounding landscape rust coloured bracken

A frozen tarn surrounded by rusty brown low fells, ahead in the distance snow covered Lakeland fells

No cafe today, just glorious views
#cumbria

Macro photography of a bronze cicada with a black head and red eyes clinging to a plant in a Tennessee forest

#ForestFriday #Macro #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin

Will made this self-portrait by running over a bulb that tripped the shutter of his camera.

From our Flickr page, which you can find in the LinkTree in our profile. 🔗🌲👆🥸