Keven Elliff

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:10:17 -0700

Buckhorn Pass

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:20:19 -0700

Mt. Baker from Yellow Aster Butte

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:34:25 -0700

2025 in a nutshell…

(Marmots at Green Mountain Lookout)

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:23:15 -0700

Hidden Lake

Wed, 14 May 2025 08:11:30 -0700

Empires rise and fall…

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:29:36 -0700

Be the light…

Defiance in the Face of Trumpism

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:22:28 -0700

“Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.

So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary.

It’s something anyone can do. Caring about whether something is true or not, and calling out lies, defies Trumpism. Treating people as humans even if Trumpists don’t think they are is defiance of Trumpism. Refusing to hate and revile Trumpists’ targets defies Trumpism. You can do that.

Fidelity to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and to us all being created equal and endowed with those rights, defies Trumpism. Caring about values and principles defies Trumpism (and also nihilists, but why should they care?). Affirming that how you act matters defies Trumpism.

The rule of law, equality before it, and freedom of expression, conscience, and worship defy Trumpism — whether or not some people have given up on them.

Openly caring about and adhering to values infuriates Trumpists. It spoils their joy. They will never be happy because of it. Keep doing it. Decency is a thumb in their eye.”

From Ken White

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:53:59 -0700

High Pressure with Wood Smoke

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:02:04 -0700

Says, by Nils Frahm

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:01:24 -0700

The last few years prove one of three things. Either:

Time travel does not exist

Time travel exists but people from the future don’t care about us

Time travelers are so prone to accidents that they don’t get to warn us

From Tristan Louis

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:24:21 -0700

An earnest dialogue.

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:39:25 -0700

Had a special day on the waters west of Victoria, BC yesterday, watching a Bigg’s orca superpod (T49As, T35As, T65Bs, T46B1s, and T46C2), along with a lunge-feeding humpback near Race Rocks Ecological Preserve.

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Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:26:49 -0700

Eastern Olympics from Mt Townsend

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:34:45 -0700

Lillian Lake from Grand Pass Peak in Olympic National Park

Varied Thrush and Pacific Wren

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:18:45 -0700

Varied Thrush and Pacific Wren singing this morning, recorded via the Merlin App.

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:04:15 -0700

Vaccines as Vehicles of Lovingkindness…

“Vaccines are not only immensely useful; they also embody something beautifully human in their combination of care and communication. Vaccines do not trick the immune system, as is sometimes said; they educate and train it. As a resource of good public health, they allow doctors to whisper words of warning into the cells of their patients. In an age short of trust, this intimacy between government policy and an individual’s immune system is easily misconstrued as a threat. But vaccines are not conspiracies or tools of control: they are molecular loving-kindness.”

www.economist.com/leaders/2…

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:18:39 -0700

Few things in my life have over-delivered at the level of Cornell’s Merlin Bird ID app. Being able to ID the 40+ birds (!) that spend time near our house BY SOUND ALONE is simply amazing. It has deepened the connection I have with my local ecosystem in a profound way.

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 07:53:59 -0700

Vibe: First Light, by Village of the Sun.

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:36:06 -0700

“I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet. At last, in 2023, I want to tell the tech CEOs and venture capitalists: pipe down. Buzz off. Go fave each other’s tweets.

It’s plain that neither the big tech companies nor the startup financiers are going to produce the “ways of relating” that will matter in the next decade. Almost by definition, any experiment that’s truly pathbreaking and provocative is too weird and tiny for them to suffer. They are trapped in their stupendous scale; lucky us.”

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 10:23:32 -0700

Mood: “Rising up like a beautiful bubble to the surface of the sea”

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 07:55:58 -0700

Last year at this time. Tomorrow we are apparently due for a repeat.

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:01:58 -0700

Current state of mind. And weather. (Also, just a test; please ignore).