Let me introduce you to Malfouf Mashi, stuffed cabbage leaves, Levantine style. Unbelievably delicious! zaatarandzaytoun.com/malfouf/

Portland’s Vaux’s Swifts have returned! 🐦‍⬛🪶 @koin6.bsky.social #Portland #Swifts

The Vaux’s Swifts have returned to #Portland 🐦‍⬛🪶 #september #autumn #birds

A 10-acre vegetation fire, that could be seen across the Mid-Willamette Valley, burned a trailer and a few cars in the Victor Point Road area south of Silverton on the afternoon of Sept. 16. www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/l...

breathe This week I am posting images from the New York Public Library

Exciting update.

"Count Basie Poster", Pittsburgh (1953) Photo: Pittsburgh Department of Public Works

There seems to be a belief that English muffins weren't invented in England: claiming that the Thomas' brand, founded in 1880 in Manhattan by a British baker, were the first. This may be the oldest EXISTING brand, but there are recipes for 'English-style' muffins in English cookbooks from 1747.

New Kids on the Block

‘My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed—my dearest pleasure when free.’ Today marks the birthday of English novelist Mary Shelley. Born August 30, 1797 in London.

Department of Embarrassment of Riches from today's NY Times Book Review

Make your family independent FOR LIFE by raising chickens in Irving Park, 1909.

The "Big Beautiful Bill" requires federal agencies to ramp up logging, "but it also includes a provision requiring 'all monies' from those new timber sales go into federal coffers. That could mean nothing from new logging contracts will be shared with the counties that house those forests."

Transportation officials are warning drivers in Portland to allow extra travel time if they’re passing over the Steel Bridge, as its lanes will close during the day starting Monday.

“It looks like you are trying to stop me” #originalart #pixelart #art

Let's normalize the belief that people don't have to suffer in order to deserve a good life.

As a reminder, the world is not black and white and nuance and subtlety is everywhere. Be wary of neat narratives and confirmation bias. Complex systems rarely have single factor determinants .

It’s on the side of the road, on overgrown lots and parks, and sometimes in backyards. It’s the Himalayan blackberry. Oregonians may have a thorny relationship with the blackberry, but a Portland group says might as well eat it.

Smoke has arrived in Seattle, primarily from the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula. Time to close the windows and turn on the air purifiers...

Some Monument Valley #photography from a while ago. Thought the light made it look like copper.

Oregon's state parks are getting increasingly expensive. -The big one here is that 21 places that used to be free to park, largely along the Coast, will now cost $10 for Oregonians and $12 for out of staters. -Cost of yurts/cabins also going up www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2...

Roosting. #chickens

Creating a 100% pedestrian link between the waterfront and Pike Place Market was the best thing Seattle has done this century.

If you haven't read this book, do it. It is so good! Also, read Leah's latest, The Blazing Eye Sees All. I didn't want it to end...

Blind Pilot, on the Seattle waterfront.

Last week when I was searching for photos of the #GrandCanyon, I discovered more than 500 photos from the 1870s by John Hillers. They enticed me, so I had to learn more. This week's essay is about him & what those photos might mean and provoke. #southwest #history www.adamsowards.net/capturing-th...

Have you ever wanted to eat lutefisk, the Scandinavian dried cod dish and bane of my Tacoma childhood? Well the Ballard SeafoodFest and its lutefisk eating contest are this weekend! For the low low price of $10 you can compete to eat 2 lb of slippery cod! www.seafoodfest.org/lutefisk-eat...

The official 2025 Seattle Bike Map shows a network finally coming together (in places) #SEAbikes #Seattle

Great horned owl near Enterprise, Oregon, while birding with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

AIR QUALITY ALERT: The Oregon DEQ issued an air quality advisory for the Portland area on Monday due to high smog levels.

If you didn't pay close attention to the Portland protests in 2020, and you want to know how bad the ICE protests in LA could get with federal troops on the ground -- I worked on a podcast that recorded the worst of it as it happened. "The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight" on all the things.

View of Mt. Hood from our nearby duck pond in outer NE Portland.

Out today: Blazing Eye Sees All, my investigation into the wide spiritual world of the New Age. It is an unintentional story of extremism, feminism, climate change, deception, power, myth and the very nature of believing. I hope you read it. bookshop.org/p/books/blaz...

Chocolatey doomscroll break!

Here’s the recipe for the canelés. You’ll need a mold, but you don’t have to spring for the $$$ copper ones; I bought silicone (way cheaper) and they work fine Recipe makes about 12

It's just the third location McMenanins has closed since the Barley Mill Pub debuted in 1983.

Studebaker Hall, Fine Arts Building, Chicago (ca. 1898-1900) Photo: Frederick O.Bemm / Chicago History Museum

So grateful to the Friends of the Burke-Gilman Trail who have been replacing invasive plants with pollinator habitat. It's beautiful. Balmy summer weather is here, so if you'd like to get outside and play in the dirt, sign up at www.seattleparksfoundation.org/get-involved... (search for "Burke")

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

Chuckanut Drive rockslide repairs could last until July, official says

Sure; that's what they're called at this stage (or puffballs): deadgoodpoets.blogspot.com/2018/10/dand...

Vast sin-concealing chaos

The Trump administration has branded yield-increasing conservation techniques, like limiting tillage, planting soil-enriching cover crops, or installing water chutes to control erosion, “far left climate” activities.

A nice article for Portlanders Places in the metro area to see flowers & when

I assume you’re all following darth already, but if not a) what are you waiting for and b) this wake up thread is a perfect fiesta of people sharing their new puppies and other such news

(11/12) Read the full story:

Weeeeee!!!!!!!! #pdx #energysky www.opb.org/article/2025...

Tribal leaders, environmental advocates, timber representatives and local government officials were among the 21 members of the Northwest Forest Plan federal advisory committee. On Thursday, officials told committee members the agency was likely to dissolve the group in the coming weeks.

Columbia Gorgeous