#RuralScenes
Morning spent birding & enjoying early fall color which is mostly Sumac & blooming Rubber Rabbitbush (yellow), both very common on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation…
#easternWashington #AutumnVibes #PNW
#fallcolors #rural #ruralscenes #landscape
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#naturephotography
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM Everybody can reply
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Mt. Adams gets first full blanket of snow Oct 2-3 which is good news during this historic drought…irrigation water shut off for junior users October 6, with 2 projects already shut down and senior users rationed…
#easternWashington #PNW #farming
#rural #ruralscenes #water #snow
#WestCoastPhotography
October 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM Everybody can reply
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All of those promising looking clouds yesterday and no rain…hear Seattle kept it all…friend’s rain gage collected an inch in 2 days…such is life in a drought on the dry side of the Cascade Mountains…
#easternWashington #PNW #clouds
#ruralscenes #rural #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #landscape
October 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM Everybody can reply
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If you’ve followed me long enough (apologies to those that have), you’ll know I can’t resist mundane infrastructure. Quite excited to find this cabinet-type, final distribution, electrical substation on my travels.

#photography #electricalsubstation #ruralscenes #scotland #Rattray #Blairgowrie
September 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM Everybody can reply
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Things seen while birding: recycling concrete, beekeeper collecting hives at season’s end, frog was hiding under fallen leaves, Yakima Valley Apple harvest…
#easternWashington #photography
#rural #ruralscenes #bees #fruit
#WestCoastPhotography
September 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM Everybody can reply
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After not being visible for a few days Mt. Adams is finally giving us a peak…other views of what’s up in the neighborhood…
#easternWashington #PNW #stunday
#clouds #ruralscenes #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #landscapes
September 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM Everybody can reply
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Birding on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation…sagebrush and Great Basin Wild Rye Grass, a very old grain storage building…sagebrush and scrub oak…day was short on birds, long on scenery…
#easternWashington #rural #landscape
#ruralscenes #photography #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM Everybody can reply
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Things seen during my morning walks in the lower Yakima Valley…
#easternWashington #rural #ruralscenes
#clouds #WestCoastPhotography
#photography #landscape
August 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM Everybody can reply
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Reflections at the gravel pit pond near Harrah, WA…often has a nice bglass-like surface but well fenced and posted against trespassing so have to photo from the road…
#easternWashington #rural #water
#ruralscenes #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #landscape
August 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM Everybody can reply
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Hard to take a morning or evening walk here in the Yakima Valley without scaring up at least one if not an entire flock of California Quail…
#easternWashington #birds #rural
#naturephotography #ruralscenes
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
August 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM Everybody can reply
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The western sky in the lower Yakima Valley early this evening…had a few drops of rain during my walk…warm and muggy too…not very pleasant…
#easternWashington #PNW #sunset
#goldenhour #clouds #rural
#photography #ruralscenes
#WestCoastPhotography
August 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM Everybody can reply
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Massive Cottonwood tree that blocks my morning sunrise view a good part of the year…gravel berm between it and a pasture gone to seed…cattle will tramp seed into the ground this fall to renew the pasture next spring…
#thicktrunktuesday #trees
#easternWashington #photography
#rural #ruralscenes
August 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM Everybody can reply
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Things seen when out birding: rusting fuel tank in collapsed shed…your next steak…apple orchard with the Rattlesnake Ridge slide background…abandoned farm equipment…Yakima Valley…
#rural #ruralscenes #landscape
#easternWashington #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography #cattle
#photography #vintage
August 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM Everybody can reply
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8:10pm August 20, 2025…nice evening for a walk in the Yakima Valley…Mt. Adams appearing regal as always…second highest peak in the state…
#easternWashington #mountains #rural
#ruralscenes #sunset #photography
#WestCoastPhotography
August 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM Everybody can reply
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Spotted this while out for an evening walk…memories…50 years ago helping
my new husband build pasture fence…true test of wedding vows…
#easternWashington #rural
#ruralscenes #photography
#womenphotographers
August 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM Everybody can reply
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This Chipmunk, caught among the leaf budding wild roses, was a bonus caught while birding the Upper Wenas Valley in Washington state…
#easternWashington #ruralscenes
#PNW #mammals #rural
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
August 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM Everybody can reply
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Things seen when out birding the lower Yakima Valley, WA….reflection on gravel pit pond, old, rusty junk, unique gate, irrigation ditch with wild flowers & hay field background…
#easternWashington #rural #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
#AugustAdventures2025 #photography
#ruralscenes
August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM Everybody can reply
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Had some early clouds which made walking here in the Yakima Valley much nicer…didn’t last long…headed for 98 today…will feel like 100+…
#easternWashington #clouds #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography #skyline
#photography #ruralscenes
August 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM Everybody can reply
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Things seen while birding the lower Yakima Valley…Bison cow feeding her calf while herd naps & hops in background…bet there’s a story here…just liked the view…cattle herd on dry-land pasture…
#easternWashington #ruralscenes #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#landscape #mammals
August 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM Everybody can reply
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Fly fishing the Yakima River last week for wild cutthroat and rainbow trout…coho, sockeye and summer chinook salmon are making a comeback…
#easternWashington #rivers #rural
#landscape #WestCoastPhotography
#photography #ruralscenes
August 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM Everybody can reply
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Things seen out walking: weir box dam on irrigation ditch & invasive purple Loosestrife, Canada Thistle seed head, sunlit neighbor’s hay stack through trees, evidence of misbehavior on the road…
#easternWashington #weeds #clouds
#silhouette #rural #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #ruralscenes
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM Everybody can reply
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Timothy Hay is down and curing before it’s baled…great timing with 100 degree temperatures coming to the Yakima Valley…took this photo in the golden-sky-moments right after sunset…
#easternWashington #sunset #rural
#ruralscenes #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #summer
#photographersofBlueSky
August 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM Everybody can reply
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