This is actually funny...wondering what the bird was thinking 🤔

Love me some dogwood, especially pink!

Nice capture...I can smell the lilac scent!

"I think I cannot preserve my health and spirits unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the #woods and fields absolutely free from all worldy engagements".- Henry David #Thoreau

#optoutside #wander #forest #restore #breathe #ecology #PNW #hike

#Frogs were croaking, barred #owls were checking me out and screeching above, while the #forest floor was entering an explosive phase of spring growth and color. It was a nice sunny Friday #spring #hike to start the weekend ahead.

#pnw #ecology #environment #nature #zen #optoutside

Many thanks for this compliment 🙌

Last weeks sweet walk in the forest, where trillium, wood sorrel and lady fern were all kicking into high gear, tall trees, hooting owls and the warmth of the sun was just icing on earth's cake.

#nature #ecology #forest #environment #wildflowers #hike #optoutside #pnw #landscape

Take daughter, add a little sunshine, hit the trails to the Camas Lily Fields as they're just starting their annual color splash, add gnome...blend and enjoy the family moments...ahhhhh, tasty.

#pnw #ecology #hike #spring #wildflowers #environment #family #nature #camaslily #photography #forest

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." – Theodore Roethke

#wildflowers #nature #pnw #forest #landscapephotography #naturescape #ecology #environment #pnwphotography #zenmoment #trillium #optoutside #hike #walking #relax #naturelover

If you love in SW Washington like me, the Trilliums are out, likely at peak the next two weeks!

A Zen kind of afternoon in the PNW. The forest is unfurling one flower, one fern at a time... "March-ing" into spring 😀

#nature #ecology #fern #trillium #forest #landscape #photography #PNW #environment #spring #zenmoment

Hidden in the shadows, just off the sidewalk, a lone magnolia blossom, with its gentle curves and folds, brings soft color and light to the dark corner.

#magnolia #spring #nature #pnw #landscapephotography #optoutside #environment #flower #zenmoment

Petals and blossoms, delicate and small, land with the breeze, ushering in another phase of spring and showering the passerby with spring-fetti.

#spring #blossom #nature #landscape #naturescape #environment #ecology #seasons #walk #optoutside #zenmoment #pnw #photography

So close it might make me sneeze! What a shot!🙌🙌

#Spring keeps emerging one #blossom at a time. Down in the forested #woodlands by the river, if you look up it's still very much winter ...but if you look down it is very, very much spring, one wild #rose, one #trillium at a time...

#ecology #forest #environment #nature #optoutside #hike

On this International Day of Forests, I took to the trail to celebrate what's essential to my well-being, and to raise awareness about the vital role that forests and trees have. Get out there, hug a tree, and tread lightly. #ecology #sustainability #climateaction #biodiversity #education #forests

It’s up to us to make love for our lands, natural habitats, and wildlife that depends on them a priority.
#conservation #nature #naturenearyou

Perfect quote...applies to so much 😍

Thank you! Love me a great oak tree!🙌

My comment sir is that perhaps you should have not moved the Trilliums illegally...take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints.

Ummm...ok😲

Thats funny! Some local nurseries have offered Trilliums but they are finicky regarding soil type, shading and moisture conditions

Out of the wet #forest floor shadows, the #mushroom shoots upwards overnight, while the first #Trillium of the #spring dots the emerging greenscape in the filtered sun...ahh, spring...bring it on!

#ecology #nature #pnw #environment #optoutside #Washingtonstate #naturescape #hike

“Between our two lives, there is also the life of the cherry blossom.” – Bashō Matsuo

Cherry blossoms in full regalia as spring slowly takes over the landscape.

#spring #cherryblossom #naturelovers #landscapephotography #zen #environment #ecology #urban #optoutside #pnw

earth's favorite color is spring
spring's best-loved color is green
and green himself loves to party
with yellow, red, orange, and pink
~Terri Guillemets, "Parti-colored," 2008

Indian Plum shoots greeting the forest in the muted afternoon light...

#nature #forest #landscapephotography #spring #zen

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also" — Harriet Jacobs.

#spring #nature #reflections #water #naturephotography #environment #zenmoment #optoutside #landscape #pnw #ecology

"There is no repose like that of the green deep woods." — John Muir

On the cusp...waiting out the rain for spring wildflowers...

#naturephotography #spring #fungi #pnw #rain #ecology #environment #zenmoment #johnmuir

Help us secure a 5,000-hectare legacy for the Nigeria-Cameroon #chimpanzee. 🐒

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#endangered #cameroon

"Look,exquisite white blossom, bathing in the sun- the scents of Spring,cross my path, a magnolia blossoms a sunlit bouquet" © Brian Strand

Star Magnolia alighting the neighborhood in early spring...

#blossom #magnolia #nature #Spring #optoutside #environment #pnwphotography #March #zenmoment

"I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees."-Pablo Neruda

Spring is slowly unfolding, one blossom at a time here in the Pacific Northwest

#cherryblossom #spring #nature #springvibes #pabloneruda #naturescape #ecology #environment ##urbanlandscape #pnw #optoutside