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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

12 ore fa

#Today 24 pt2

Good day!

I went out for a short hike, maybe a few miles. I returned after 7.4 miles (11.9k) and 1,591 feet (485m).

That, plus a good

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#Today 24 pt2

Good day!

I went out for a short hike, maybe a few miles. I returned after 7.4 miles (11.9k) and 1,591 feet (485m).

That, plus a good night’s sleep last night, and editing now, is how I battle depression since I can’t take medication.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday #Montana

The few looks over pine forest and down a valley where a river flows, the mountains lining the valley appearing like layers. The sky is hazy.

An older blonde woman wearing a light hat, sunglasses, blue bandanna, and light blue shirt stands atop Milltower Ridge.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover #montana #mountainmonday

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

21 ore fa

#Today 24

Good day!

Some days…

Okay, so yesterday was “a day,” too. So, I’ll fight my way through this day. I’ll survive. That’s what I do.

And no

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#Today 24

Good day!

Some days…

Okay, so yesterday was “a day,” too. So, I’ll fight my way through this day. I’ll survive. That’s what I do.

And now I’m going to shut up before I make this a day for everyone else, too.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday

Dark gold grassland dotted with the occasional pine tree gives way to a ridge that alternates between grass and forest. Behind the ridge is a mountain, a wooded ridge extending from it to the left. The sky is partly cloudy.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover #mountainmonday

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 giorno fa

#Today 23 #SilentSunday

Good day,

I can’t believe it’s been twelve years since I visited Glacier National Park. In its honor, I’ll share a some view

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#Today 23 #SilentSunday

Good day,

I can’t believe it’s been twelve years since I visited Glacier National Park. In its honor, I’ll share a some views.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Montana #GlacierNationalPark

A view of a stream cutting through a defile, pine trees in the background on the right, a tree with changing leaves on the left, a mountain slope behind it. The sky is hazy.

A placid lake is framed by trees that have largely lost their leaves. Lining the lake on the right are pine trees and larches. In the background, mountains stretch into the distance beneath a clear sky, though clouds are in evidence in the distance.

Taken in autumn, the view looks over trees adorned in red leaves, one with golden leaves lining the border on the left. Peaks rise from a forest of color in the background, the mountains silhouetted, the sky mostly clear.

On the far side of a grassy field are a line of short pines. Beyond them, beneath a mostly clear sky, are a line of rocky peaks made up of sedentary rock, talus slopes around their bases. The layers in the peaks are obvious.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #silentsunday #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover #montana #glaciernationalpark

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

2 giorni fa

#Today 22

Good day!

Our geology is linked to that of Washington thanks to Glacial Lake Missoula.

An ice dam created the lake, but then broke and dr

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#Today 22

Good day!

Our geology is linked to that of Washington thanks to Glacial Lake Missoula.

An ice dam created the lake, but then broke and drained it—100 times.

Where’s our silt? Scoured and carried to Washington. But we have shale, and even a few erratics of our own.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A closeup of shale on Blue Mountain showing stratified shale that’s a light blue, or even green.

What I believe is a glacial erratic sitting alone on a grassy slope on Blue Mountain, pine trees behind, the sky blue.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

3 giorni fa

#Today 21

Good day!

Full disclosure: I didn’t bend the tree on the left, but can snap twigs.

Touches of autumn, yet we’re having several days of ho

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#Today 21

Good day!

Full disclosure: I didn’t bend the tree on the left, but can snap twigs.

Touches of autumn, yet we’re having several days of hot weather. Hopefully, this will be the heat’s last gasp.

In August, though, the heat seems less severe here.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #FootpathFriday

A trail in the pine forest passes a bent tree on the left and passes between light red brush on the left and a deeper red brush on the right.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover #footpathfriday

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

4 giorni fa

#Today 20

Good day!

You’d think that endless evergreens would mean sameness, but the forest the forest floor, the undergrowth, has its ways of chang

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#Today 20

Good day!

You’d think that endless evergreens would mean sameness, but the forest the forest floor, the undergrowth, has its ways of changing with the seasons.

It isn’t New England in October, but I enjoy it.

The forest here introduces one autumn color at a time.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Looking through the pine forest, there are the brown tree trunks, green needles, beige grass, and red brush.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

5 giorni fa

#Today 19 pt2

Good day!

Well, my physical playtime is over after 6.4 miles (10.3k) and 1033 feet (315m). What a beautiful morning.

They keep turnin

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#Today 19 pt2

Good day!

Well, my physical playtime is over after 6.4 miles (10.3k) and 1033 feet (315m). What a beautiful morning.

They keep turning up the autumn a little more each time I hike. It’s in the air, hints of it all around.

Now, I’ll edit my blog post, then move on to Book-6.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography

The view down a pair of legs wearing dark leggings to where gray and blue hiking shoes are atop a log. The trail is to either side of the log.

The trail on the right passes a boulder on the left, bright red brush behind it. Ahead is pine forest, the sky blue.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

5 giorni fa

#Today 19

Good day!

Global warming…

There are bear warnings for the city. Our mild winter produced a poor berry crop in the mountains, and so bears

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#Today 19

Good day!

Global warming…

There are bear warnings for the city. Our mild winter produced a poor berry crop in the mountains, and so bears have been venturing near.

They’re asking that people not pick berries.

This coming winter is expected to be even warmer.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Clouds hide the Bitterroot Mountains, but it’s clear over the valley and above the clouds, creating layers of white and blue.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

6 giorni fa

#Today 18

Good day!

The price of compassion.

American healthcare has reached a point where anything a doctor recommends, the same question passes t

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#Today 18

Good day!

The price of compassion.

American healthcare has reached a point where anything a doctor recommends, the same question passes through my mind:

“Are you recommending this for my health, or for your profits?”

The answer is the same: the end of trust.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Beyond a wooden fence is a field of golden grass, clusters of evergreens, and wooded mountains where clouds still cling, the sky partly cloudy.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 17

Good day!

We have clouds again. Hooray for clouds! The heat is weakened, but remains most day.

Typical summer. Well, it is now.

Even if

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#Today 17

Good day!

We have clouds again. Hooray for clouds! The heat is weakened, but remains most day.

Typical summer. Well, it is now.

Even if these aren’t typical times. I suspect the world is going to be holding its breath for the next few months.

We must not falter.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Beyond a mountain’s grassy slope on the left, clouds sit between woody peaks that are silhouetted. Above those thick clouds, the clouds are thin, blue sky visible.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 16 #SilentSunday

Nature’s frames are windows we should look through once in a while.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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#Today 16 #SilentSunday

Nature’s frames are windows we should look through once in a while.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Montana

The view is through pine trees high in the mountains in summer. Across a broad valley is a mountain (Stuart Peak), the side of it sheared off, snowfields still present. The sky is mostly cloudy.

The view is through a wire fence, ice coating the wire to create a "barbed ice" effect. Blurred in the background is a field, a fence running along the side of it. Beyond that, where there should be mountains, there are clouds.

The view is through the snow-laden branches of a pine tree that crowd the image, but reveal a wooded peak that's also laden with heavy snow to create a dark gray texture. The sky is cloudy.

The view is through the golden needles of larch trees, a few pines in evidence. Beyond them is a towering peak that is covered in snow, but bare rock is visible. The sky is mostly cloudy.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #silentsunday #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover #montana

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 15

Good day!

Cooler nights. I can sleep. All the more so because Evie Cat snuggles and purrs at this temperature.

The smoke has moved on. I

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#Today 15

Good day!

Cooler nights. I can sleep. All the more so because Evie Cat snuggles and purrs at this temperature.

The smoke has moved on. I can breathe. No headache brings renewal and renewed determination.

Summer wanes. Autumn whispers. This is my season of creativity.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

An old forest road curls from right to left through pine forest, the sun splashing the scene with brightness to contrast with the shadows, the grass turning golden, the woody brush adding red to the scene.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 14 pt2

Good day!

AQI is down to 52. After ten days of smoke and over a month of drought, we’ve had glorious rain all morning.

I walked in it

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#Today 14 pt2

Good day!

AQI is down to 52. After ten days of smoke and over a month of drought, we’ve had glorious rain all morning.

I walked in it and can report that it is in fact glorious. My senses are alive with it.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #Montana #Climate #Rain #Drought

A boxelder maple leaf with drops of rain on it.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover #climate #montana #drought #rain

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 14

Good day!

Where the grassland meets the forest.

Blue Mtn. Is a popular place to hike. It’s easily accessible and has lovely views.

Yet,

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#Today 14

Good day!

Where the grassland meets the forest.

Blue Mtn. Is a popular place to hike. It’s easily accessible and has lovely views.

Yet, as I’ve discovered, few people explore. They mostly hike the same few trails.

This year is notable because there are fewer people.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A trail through the woods creates a border between the grass slope that climbs to the left and the pine forest to the right. Too, the grassland grass is golden, but the forest grass is a deep green. The sky is hazy.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 13 pt2

Transition day.

It’s clear in the valley, the sun hot, but the strong wind is cold, summer and autumn coexisting.

We had a brief rain

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#Today 13 pt2

Transition day.

It’s clear in the valley, the sun hot, but the strong wind is cold, summer and autumn coexisting.

We had a brief rain overnight, but the clouds retreated to the mountains.

The AQI has plummeted to 59, but I’m still clearing smoke out of my head.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

The scene looks over the top of a garden, sunflowers on the left. In the distance beyond scattered trees, the mountains are hiding in the clouds, but the sky overhead is clear.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 13

Good day!

Photo from two years ago this month.

The smoke largely cleared out last night (for now) and there’s a chance of rain.

I had a

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#Today 13

Good day!

Photo from two years ago this month.

The smoke largely cleared out last night (for now) and there’s a chance of rain.

I had a restless night with tortured dreams that are lingering on the edge of conscious thought, like something important I must recover.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

The view looks down a succession of deep green, wooded mountain shoulders to a valley cloaked in haze, the mountains stretching into the distance barely visible as they poke up out of the smoke. The sky above the smoke is clear.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 12

Good day!

Missoula prior to the smoke, the university’s stadium (right) at the entrance to Hellgate Canyon.

It’s the only university in t

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#Today 12

Good day!

Missoula prior to the smoke, the university’s stadium (right) at the entrance to Hellgate Canyon.

It’s the only university in the country that owns a mountain, Mt. Sentinel, from which I took this picture (at Glacial Lake Missoula high water mark).

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

From a rocky perch on the side of a mountain, the view looks down a steep slope, a city spread out below. The view then extends across a broad valley to distant mountains.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

1 settimana fa

#Today 11

Good day!

The forecast continues to hold. Our weather is supposed to start changing tomorrow night.

Current AQI = 177.

This reminds me o

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#Today 11

Good day!

The forecast continues to hold. Our weather is supposed to start changing tomorrow night.

Current AQI = 177.

This reminds me of the oxygen deprivation I had with HP. You think you’re okay, but you’re not.

That kind of sums up global warming, I guess.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A forest view with a deadwood tree extending into the view from the left and disappearing in the red brush growing up around it. In the foreground is beige grass. In the background is a wooded ridge of evergreens. The sky is clear, but hazy.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

2 settimane fa

#Today 10

Good day!

AQI this morning is a not wonderful 186. I miss clouds. I miss sleeping well. I miss sanity.

Relief might be on the way Thursda

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#Today 10

Good day!

AQI this morning is a not wonderful 186. I miss clouds. I miss sleeping well. I miss sanity.

Relief might be on the way Thursday with cooler temps and a strong chance of rain, if the weather is to be believed.

Meanwhile, there’s editing.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday

In a photo from last week…a field of golden grass with hints of green stretches to scattered evergreens that then become a forest. In the background is a mountain shrouded in smoke, the sky hazy.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover #mountainmonday

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Christina Anne Hawthorne

@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange

2 settimane fa

#Today 09 #SilentSunday

Good day,

You’re human, hold onto choice, hold onto freewill. Create, explore, but most of all, think.

Be everwell.

#Writ

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#Today 09 #SilentSunday

Good day,

You’re human, hold onto choice, hold onto freewill. Create, explore, but most of all, think.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

An old forest road climbs into the mountains and the clouds, the grass a dark gold, the pine trees that climb the slope disappearing into the mist.

A trail traverses a wooded ridge where the grass and undergrowth is lush, yet it's possible to see through the old growth pines to where the dip in the ridge starts to climb again, the trail still visible.

High in the mountains, a trail is visible through the gold grasses where nothing else grows, the view unrestricted and show a broad valley below. In the distance is another mountain range beneath a cloudy sky.

A trail skirts the edge of huge talus on the left, passing between it and the brush on the right with gold leaves, but also evergreens mixed in. High to the right are a series of spires that reach towards the partly cloudy sky.

#hiking #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #silentsunday #today #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #aging #healthyliving #healthylifestyle #getoutside #trails #hikingadventures #naturelover

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