#Paradise Meadows

[mountrainiernps]

This week brought fresh snow to Mount Rainier, including to subalpine areas like Paradise. Some fall foliage still lingers in the meadows, and low elevation forests are brightened by a mix of yellow-orange vine maples, devil’s club, vanilla leaf, and other plants whose leaves are turning. Remember conditions on the mountain can change quickly! When planning a visit, always check weather forecasts, bring the 10 essentials (including food, water, and warm clothing), and know how to navigate if you encounter snow-covered trails at higher elevations.

For those that have already visited, what was the highlight of fall for you this season?

NPS Photo of Mount Rainier from Paradise, October 2024.

[thestarfishdancer]

Rewind to Recharge: Entry # 1

Last year, after the mass evacuation of Yellowknife because of the wildfire situation, I eventually made my way to Vancouver Island, which I’d planned before everything went, well, the way it went. Finding myself in need of a reset and recharge this year, for different reasons, it made sense to go to my happy place and do the same. So here I find myself again in Courtenay, in the delightful cozy…

[theodoreangelos]

Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography – Paradise Meadows Mount Rainier National Park, Washington Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography Gallery

“Paradise Meadows” by | Elliot McGucken

Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

[gina025]

Relax your mind

[lovehina019]

[fairytaleprincessart]

[willdmallow]

Red poppies and sunrise ♥️

[eliotbw]

the paradise meadow of glacier national park. @eliotbw

[jaytoons7]

Captured Charles AU: Trouble in Paradise Part 3

Introducing the gals! They were just having a chat when they caught Burt being a creep (Went kinda short and sweet for this one)

The Captured Charles AU belongs to @capturecharlesau

[lilysandhyacinths]

Outer Banks Plot but with the Slytherin Skittles

I WANNA SEE THEM TREASURE HUNTING, LIVING ON AN ISLAND AND SURFING

[arborius]

[beljar]

I love the rainfall on the women of distant meadows. I love the glittering water and the scent of stone.

Mahmoud Darwish, from "Addresses for the Soul, outside this Place", diwan "Fewer Roses" (1986), Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (Translated and Edited by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and A mira El-Zein)

[thestarfishdancer]

Planned Retreat #3

[wildfiresofchaos]

"I'd love to live inside your head"

No you wouldn't, seriously... Inside my brain there's a beautiful meadow, it's all whimsical and shit ya know real fairytale stuff and nothing can hurt you in a fairytale right? Wrong. Under this gorgeous field is an infinite number of landmines and you have no idea where any of them are.

Why not just stand in the single patch of grass you spawned on? Because if you do nothing for too long you die that's why, so you gotta move forward, good job you spawned with the immune to landmines ability isn't it?

Again no. While you can't actually be killed by one it will render your avatar completely frozen for an undetermined amount of time, okay that's not too bad... Wrong Again! Remember if you do nothing for too long you die? Yeah that's also an undetermined amount of time too, so you spend the whole time you're frozen convinced if it lasts a second more you'll die.

Now what happens if you somehow make it across the field? Well then it's great there's loads of other worlds for you to explore behind an infinite amount of doors. Some you can stay inside for an hour, some a week, and a few give you a few months break from the minefield meadow. But there a some doors that will just teleport you straight back to the middle of the field, and even worse sometimes it's the doors to your favourite worlds.

Yeah my head isn't a fairytale landscape of whimsy at all, it's a majestic minefield meadow surrounded by hundreds of thousands of millions of doors that keep you alive by being opened but at any point any of the doors could send you back into the minefield. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it snows and sometimes the sun shines deliciously with a calming breeze almost convincing you that the beautiful meadow surrounding you on all sides is nothing but innocence and whimsy, a paradise without pain, suffering or hardships.

Oh and all your actions inside both the minefield meadow and the many worlds you explore have consequences on those you love and care about, your friends, your family, your colleagues and even total strangers but I won't get into those.

~ CJ ~

[gina025]

Meadow sunset

[lovehina019]