#summer pnw 2023

[endaandfiona]

It's been so nice out. Enjoy the sound of enda eating peanuts+

[worshipthedoll]

[photozoi]

Nosy boys trying to see whats up at the neighbours.

Jeep, Borzoi the Imp, Silken Windhound

[faeriebitescreations]

ENERGY AROUND ME 🌞🌻🌱

The suns at its finest allowing everything to grow & bloom faster! Tons and tons of abundance, positive energy thrown out, and love spread all around… aiding in growth, prosperity, and protection!

NOW AVAILABLE TO CLAIM

[imfuckingwasted]

I ran off to Washington

[bittersweetfae]

[pnwfunguys]

Glammor shot, dried up xanthodermus (yellow stainer) || Southern Oregon

[etakeh]

...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * - WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with maximum temperatures up to 95 possible. Minimum temperatures of 65 are possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. * WHEN...From Saturday afternoon through Monday evening

Let's get this summer started! Yay! Heatstroke and heat islands and heat rising from every surface!

fuuuuuck I hate summer. Used to be, you could play outside during the summer. Now, you go outside for more than 10 minutes and you start smelling roasted long pig and go "wow, who's cooking human flesh around here? I thought I left that back in my home town of [redacted]" and then realize it's YOU that's cooking and everyone thinks you're weird for recognizing the smell.

ugh.

Anyway, be safe out there. If you can, stick a couple of frozen water bottles in your car/bag for the people on the street.

[flame-point]

“Resurrection Fern” ink 2023

Another piece from my Life from Death series. I love ferns. All ferns; all kinds of ferns. I’m not the best at taking care of them, but thankfully they often bounce back after a good soak. Here in the PNW, they even live under sewer grates, dying back in summer and coming back green when the rains return in the fall.

[endaandfiona]

Have you ever seen a wild pigeon sunbathe before?

[worshipthedoll]

[photozoi]

Homecoming

[wilderwinsky]

"Washington Summers" original acrylic painting WYLDIR June 2023

Description: I was inspired to paint this because of Washington's beautiful natural scenery. The summers are always full of vibrant colors and I knew I had to paint this to capture the feeling.

[charminglyantiquated]

Hello! I love your sailing posts and have started trying to work towards my long time goal of working on/with ships. I took a sailing class, started volunteering with historic wooden boats, and am planning to work towards my keelboat certification in the coming year. I would love to eventually work on a schooner but I have a cat and would just need to do day trips or shorter week long trips and not live on board. If you have any tips or advice around finding a space like that I would greatly appreciate it! I've found one schooner on Lake Superior that looks attractive and a few sailing education orgs here in the PNW though they don't have schooners...

Oh congratulations! And good luck with the certification!

Day sailors are probably the way to go, whether commercial or educational - they’ll be back at the docks every night. (Windjammers have to fit as many multi-day trips as they can into the season, so living on board is mandatory and the turn around between trips is about ~24 hours max).

My experience with day sailing is that the hours more forgiving (you often start at 9-10ish), you can go home at night, and you have days of/work a specific schedule/ can potentially get a day covered if you have to. I had crew who worked one day a week and crew who worked five; some were full time career sailors and some had picked it up for a fun summer job or a side gig. It seems like that might be a good fit!

Finding boats that could work: in addition to searching ‘location you’d like+tall ships/sailing tours’ (usually my go to lmao), check out Tall Ships America Billet Bank! Filter by Deck Unlicensed for deckhand/educator jobs that don’t require official certification, which is the majority of deckhand jobs on day sailors. Marlinspike Magazine has job postings too. This is a good time of year for it, since everyone’s working on getting a 2023 crew together! I know in New England especially, just about every coastal town with some tourism draw has a few traditionally rigged boats that do day tours.

[bittersweetfae]