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**yami** @yamini@india.goonj.xyz · Aug 2, 2024

Aug 2, 2024

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
Do you also enjoy watching nature jus like me?
Does it relief your stress as well?
#nemophilist #nature #travel #environment #mastodonindians #trekking #goa #music #monsoon
@mastodonindians

**Melody Wainscott** @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us · Jan 24, 2023 *

Jan 24, 2023 *

Melody Wainscott @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us

Bridges are portals.

Barnes Creek

I’m standing at the foot of a sturdy, wooden footbridge that crosses a swift creek. Today it’s surprisingly sunny, the day after many drizzly days. The winter rainforest I’m in is wet and sparkly. It’s cold but not freezing and the air has a clean bite from the Doug Fir.

There are leafless, deciduous “moss” trees on both sides of the bridge, some sprouting from the creek bank on my left where I’m standing and a few up ahead on the right bank all the way across the creek. Their trunks and branches are furry with dramatic moss carpets, lush, neon, dripping. #Kin moss loves the big leaf maples #kin is growing on.

The bridge stretches out before me, and it’s red, from the crushed autumn leaves off the maples and the wood, too, is a shade of red. I’m just not sure if it’s redwood.

I hear more than see the creek but it’s barely viewable from my peripheral vision on both sides as I look all the way across the bridge.

I see a guardian Doug fir trunk just past the maples, up on the left and a good trail disappearing in the evergreen forest ahead.

#Bridge #Footbridge #Portal

**Melody Wainscott** @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us · Jan 17, 2023 *

Jan 17, 2023 *

Melody Wainscott @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us

Meet the mighty Elwah River out on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s not just another pretty place but also the sight of the world’s largest dam removal project.

*Update March 2023: Work officially began on the Klamath River Restoration, now the world’s largest dam removal project.

A thin line of horizontal low clouds bisects this rich landscape. Above this line is a steep mountain covered in a verdantly green coniferous forest; a brilliant blue sky with white clouds fills the background. Below the thin line a river enters the photo mid frame flowing southeast off the landscape, its surface frothy in places with small rapids. Unexpectedly the river appears silver and a light shade of green. Its shores are lined with leafless birch, boulders and one large leafless big leaf maple tree on the left. There are a few rocky bars exposed in the river. The combination of leafless trees and autumn colored vegetation on the shores with evergreen trees on the mountain is intensely beautiful, evoking a desire to protect this living river, its inhabitants, its landscape.

#River #Elwah #Fluviophile

**Melody Wainscott** @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us · Jan 13, 2023

Jan 13, 2023

Melody Wainscott @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us

If you have ever gone
to the woods with me,
I must love you very much.

—Mary Oliver

A vertical landscape of mostly deciduous trees gathered in a circle-like grove are surrounded by an evergreen forest. It’s winter but the green in this rainforest is deep, penetrating. The bare branches and trunks are long, graceful and mossy. The forest floor is red with composting, autumn big leaf maple leaves. A blue sky peeks through the branches that stretch to the top of the landscape. Certainly these trees were dancing a tree reel only moments before I arrived.

#Mosstodon #OlympicPeninsula #PNW

**Melody Wainscott** @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us · Jan 10, 2023

Jan 10, 2023

Melody Wainscott @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us

Sunrise from Olympic National Park, today.

An unseen deck supports the bottom frame that moves up into shadowy shore and into a smooth lake. Sunrise over the steep and deeply evergreen forested mountains that begin just a half a mile away, reflects pinks, peach and orange into this first layer of the lake. There’s a pier and floating deck in the lighted lake, then darkly reflected mountains all covered in a thin layer of clouds at the base of the mountains. Blue sky is peaking through above the mountains to the right. Clouds casting the sunrise are to the right. The view is due south.

#Forest #Lake #OlympicPeninsula

**Melody Wainscott** @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us · Dec 31, 2022

Dec 31, 2022

Melody Wainscott @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us

I bet y’all love a water element in your woods. If you’re drawn to flowing water you might be a “fluviophile.” The word origin for Middle English “fluvio” is the Latin fluvialis < fluvius, a river < fluere, to flow. “Phile” is Greek from philos for “dear, beloved.” This lovely flowing pool is on Barnes Creek in the lowland old growth forest near Crescent Lake, WA, out on the Olympic Peninsula.

A small creek enters from the lush green forest in the mid top third, looking like a trickle. Its flow rounds into a bowl mid portrait then flows widely into the southeast quadrant, running off the capture in a mini waterfall. A fallen log sprouting green seedlings crosses the southwest quadrant. Above it is a smaller log encrusted in fluorescent green moss. Moving clockwise are the trunks of evergreens and moss covered branches bordering the shallow, bowl-shaped pool. A few large moss covered rocks lie in the pool. Your inner child is telling you to have off with your boots and splash around in the shallow pool but your adult self says nah, don’t disturb the water sprites and moss fairies.

#Mosstodon #Fluviophile #Fluviophiliac

**Melody Wainscott** @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us · Dec 30, 2022 *

Dec 30, 2022 *

Melody Wainscott @MelodyWainscott@zirk.us

One of my favorite mossy forest haunts out on the Olympic Peninsula in the PNW. It’s an old growth lowland forest along the shores of Barnes Creek near Lake Crescent, WA.

Barnes Creek splashes through the bottom half of the composition towards the southwest quadrant. A reddish wooden bridge with fine sturdy railing crosses the creek at the top of the creek’s entrance onto the photo. The banks are red. A forest surrounds the river on three sides of the photo, west, north, east. It’s a winter old growth forest but lush green with moss covering deciduous tree branches and there are evergreens, too. The moss creates a gold-green glow on the photo centrally moving northwest. Definitely looks like some of those trees aren’t really trees but could be ents.

#ForestFriday #Mosstodon #PNW

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