Paradoxical, how being suffused in low clouds can make you feel like you've risen above it all, yet it's true...

A vibe captured by me, one December afternoon in Santa Monica.

#art #photography #cloudscape #halo #clouds #sun #California #AmericanWest #PacificCoast #WestCoast #PacificOcean #sea #ocean #coast #sky #skyscape

People complain endlessly about the "gloom" that comes off the Pacific Ocean in the summer, but where else will you get an atmosphere like this? Taken in true color in Florence, Oregon: "A Coast in Grey".

#art #photography #sea #ocean #PacificOcean #WestCoast #Cascadia #Oregon #PacificCoast #PacificNorthwest #woods #forest #fog #summer

I put together a list of accounts that are based on the #WestCoast for an early #FollowFriday! Let me know if you want to be added to the list [or removed].

Alissa Azar @alissaazar
Syria📍PDX
Journalist covering police & far-right violence in the PNW • She/They • Antifascist • Neurodivergent

AI6YR Ben @ai6yr
The account of AI6YR Ben, on his own server. Very eclectic selection of posts. Good weather info.

JustBob 🪖🇺🇸♒️️ @bob
The silence is deafening. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for #homeless people.

Indivisible SF @IndivisibleSF
San Franciscans standing indivisible for a progressive agenda in CA-11 and CA-15.

Led By Gilded Fools @MHowell
White guy living in Indian Country (Suquamish aka Seattle, WA)
#Wilderness, #AntiFacist, #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally, #BLM, #ProChoice, #GunReform #noindex #nobots #noAI

Mungen Cakes ✅️ @Mungencakes
Loose cannon, Fuckstar, the antifa Ray Stevens, #AltText evangelist. Unceded Alsea land.

The Needling @TheNeedling
Seattle's Only Real Fake News (Satire/Parody)

Pete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️ @Petesmom
ANTIFA, ACAB / FUCK ICE
Black Lives Matter! Immigrant Lives Matter! Trans Lives Matter! I believe in DEI! “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” - Maya Angelou

Rachael L @rachael
I live in Seattle with my family and work in tech. I'm also disabled (mostly deaf & blind on one side). I ride the bus, walk or bike most of the time and I care a lot about our transportation system working for everyone. This account is for Seattle, urbanism & regional political stuff!

San Francisco Baykeeper @sfbaykeeper
Defending #SFBay & holding polluters accountable since 1989

Seattle Bike Blog @seabikeblog
Pedaling news up Seattle’s hills since 2010.

Youth Liberation Front Seattle @seattleylf
The Seattle Division of the PNWYLF, a collective in an autonomous network of antifascist students and youth [Note: They have not posted in a while.]

#FollowerPower #PNW #California #Oregon #WashingtonState #SeattleWA #SanFrancisco #PortlandOR #PacificCoast

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, feels like Europe met the Pacific.

#carmelbythesea #california #montereypeninsula #pacificcoast #travel

lost

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

Big Sur, California offers beauty without trying.

#bigsur #california #pacificcoast #highway1 #travel

A time of day on the coast that never fails to make me feel a little bit better...

Captured one February afternoon, "Sun Drawing Lower at Santa Monica Beach".

#art #photography #sunset #sky #skyscape #PacificOcean #California #WestCoast #PacificCoast #AmericanWest #sea #ocean

They really ought to put an anemometer up here or *something*, for when the light hits it just right, the humble Redondo Beach pier looks like the front line between our world and that which lies beyond...

Taken by me one summer evening: "End of the Map".

#art #photography #sunset #sky #skyscape #sea #ocean #PacificOcean #PacificCoast #WestCoast #California