It’s gorgeous here today! Only 55 degrees but I’ll take it.
#PacificNW #WesternWA

🚨 #WesternWA 🚨High wind gusts🚨forecasted 📢

Power outage painting reveal.
#artsky #westernwa

More Fungi from the trail 🐾

#westernWA #donteatthat 🍄

Tall Garry oaks with straight upright trunks and typical oak leaves, most of them still green. Garry oak can also spread wide and become quite gnarly, with twisted branches. Photo taken at Turtleback Mountain Preserve, Orcas Island, October 15, 2025.

Short, probably 3-year-old Garry oak sapling with crinkly brown and yellow leaves, growing amid dry grass. Enclosed in wire mesh to prevent browsing by deer. Photo taken at Turtleback Mountain Preserve on Orcas Island on October 15, 2025.

First-year Garry oak seedling amid fallen oak leaves, fallen madrona leaves, moss, grass, and other plant species. Madrone (locally madrona, Arbutus menziesii) is abundant in Turtleback Mountain Preserve on Orcas Island, where this photo was taken on October 15, 2025.

Our Garry oak, about two feet tall when we planted it five years ago. Now about eight feet tall and still green. The mesh surrounding it protects it from deer and rabbits. Garry oak is late to leaf out in spring; leaves turn brown and crinkly in late autumn but most remain on the tree through winter. Photo taken October 17, 2025. Hoping for acorns next year!

Garry oak (Quercus garryana) aka Oregon white oak, prime #native #habitat, used to be common in #westernWA, but the usual culprits nearly eliminated it. Some remain in San Juan Islands, eg Turtleback Mountain Preserve on Orcas, where oak seedlings are protected from deer to assist #restoration.

An image of a computer screen with the message, "Installing Washington summer." Followed by, "Installation failed. Error 404: summer not found. Summer is not available in your state. Please try California."

And yet, I will recall this rainy day fondly on Monday, which is forecast to be in the upper 80s.

#PacificNorthWet #WesternWA
#WashingtonState

PSA the Puget Sound Beekeepers Associate will provide Western WA locals with free pollinator seeds in bulk on their website!

I’m handing a few out to friends and giving out the rest to neighbors

#seattle #westernwa #pugetsound #gardening

An image of old, eroded pier pilings protruding from the water. Port Gardner Bay in Everett, WA.

Port Gardner Bay, Everett, WA.
#photography #outdoors #landscapephotography #seascape #nature #PNW #PNWphtography #travelphotography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #westernwa

Good skies today. #pnw #wawx #westernWA

Adrift at Saltwater State Park in Des Moines, WA.
#Photography #Saltwaterstatepark #sunset #seascape #art #blueskyphotography #PNWphotography #nature #solitude #WA #westernwa #stateparks

Kid's art! on busses, on an almost-Spring day in Bellingham. 🌳🌈🍄‍🟫🌤
#publicart #kidsart #publictransit #westernwa
#photography #colorphotography

Recent weather reports indicate that a storm is expected later tonight (March 26), with hail predicted to reach up to 1 inch in diameter.

Check out the graphic below for the Washington State Department of Agriculture's recommendations to stay safe during the storm.

#federalway #westernwa #weather

Well shoot...Grab your broomsticks and bikes, everybody, and look out for flying monkeys... 🧙‍♀️🧹🚴‍♂️🌪

...cause we have a 2-4% chance of a...TORNADO?!?! tomorrow(!!!)
#westernwa #pnw #seattleweather

I’m a #westernwa native but have always been obsessed with #centralwa. (That’s right - it’s not just western and eastern WA- we’ve got a whole middle!!)
The geological history and #ruggedlandscape is #beautiful. And I ❤️ the mighty #Columbiariver.
#landscape #rollinghills #ariverrunsthroughit #home

Good morning!🦋💙We have a little more snow.❄️Stay strong! #WesternWA #Resist

I'm Tru. Nice to meet ya! #PugetSound #WesternWA area. #Elder-millennial , lez, lib. #Houseplant #gardening addict. My blood type is ☕️. #MushroomForager I like animals more than most ppl. Hoping to #homestead at our #HohRiver #OlympicNationalPark cabin soon. My gf & my son are my everything. #RBT

How are all my #PNW peeps doin? Hope you have power and no damage #WesternWA over 500k without power. Stay warm #PSE says it could be days to fully restore. #OR and #BritishColumbia hanging in there?