love, em

making each day a little more beautiful

[naturalpalettes]

Mt Rainier by Anthony Samaniego

[naturalpalettes]

Tetons by Ty Newcomb

[love---em]

Just a daily dose of existentialism

[twallisstone-deactivated2018063]

On the Road to Boise- Beginning Seattle to Mt.Baker/Snoqualmie National Forest #washingtonstate #sketches #vacation #trishwallistone (at Washington)

[love---em]

Livin’ in golden hour with you babe #shotonmoment @moment . . . . . wonderful things can’t last forever / for they are dulled by repetition and cease being wonderful/ this quote always helped me deal with endings/ and now it’s got me afraid that a life this wonderful can’t possibly last/ teetering on the brink again, knife edge of our young world/ [cohabitation is the best] & I know I’m not supposed to charge another soul with the weight of my happiness/ but can it be, given the joy and light reflected between multifaceted hearts/ that for us, there’s anything less than eternal sun? (at Cle Elum, Washington)

[worshipgifs]

[sixpenceee]

This is what the highest point in the path of totality looked like to the naked eye. Borah Peak, Idaho 12,500 feet. (Source)

[richardwrights]

This is cool as FUCK

[househunting]

so there’s a new bikeshare program in seattle where you can just leave the bikes anywhere when you’re done. the one that took up a ton of parking spots and only allowed you to return bikes to docking stations in gone. hypothetically you leave the bikes like this:

but people have been leaving them inconvenient places:

and it is cracking me up. things like this are why iluvseattle.

[traverse-our-universe]

Terzan 5 | European Southern Observatory “Peering through the thick dust clouds of the galactic bulge an international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar cluster known as Terzan 5. The new results indicate that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge’s primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of the very early days of the Milky Way.” More at eso.org | ESO/F. Ferraro

[peppermintmonster]

In Washington State killing Bigfoot is a felony but in Texas Bigfoot is considered an invasive species and can be hunted at will.

This sounds like one of those cutesy funny cryptid posts but that is actually the legal status of Bigfoot in those two states, you can look it up.

[kittyperson]

Texas Bigfoot is a cattle rustler and must be brought to justice

Washington Bigfoot enjoys hiking and is a naturalist

[urbnite]

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[foodffs]

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[seattlethings]

Go home,  ferry, you’re drunk.

[conifae]

[the-gardens-of-lorien]

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream”. Vincent van Gogh

[wornwear]

The Grandfather. Yvon Chouinard, Ventura, California

Dear Patagonia,

Little did we know this blue prototype fleece developed in ’76, which we referred to as rare Siberian blue poodle fur, would be the grandfather of all fleeces.

I knew that people like myself were seeking the joys of outdoor activities in greater numbers and they needed warmer, lighter, quick-drying clothes that did not bog down with moisture as did the  cotton and wool garments then commonly in use. I came to believe that the solution was synthetic layers: a base layer to wick, a fleece layer for warmth and an outside layer for wind and moisture protection. Once we came to that conclusion, Patagonia’s team proved they were up to the task of creatively identifying and developing the necessary fabrics.

As they say, “necessity is the mother of invention,” the “necessity” in this case being the need for a nonabsorbent insulating layer and the “invention” representing the resourcefulness of my wife, Malinda Chouinard, who was willing to try even an ugly fabric intended for toilet seat covers because we suspected it best fit our needs. That's  how synthetic fleece was born. We made the first fleece jackets out of a near-bankrupt company’s left-over inventory of muddy, nondescript tan and bilious blue fleece, but it did indeed work, although it pilled badly, which made it look even worse. It has evolved, through trial and error, from that “base” into today’s fleeces. 

This first fleece jacket hangs proudly on the wall at Patagonia headquarters, but I had to take it down and try it on for old time’s sake.

―Yvon