Melody Wainscott
@mrwainscott.bsky.social
botany | toxicology | literature
funga • flora • fauna
i spend time in old growth forests
co-auth pubs: plant biochem, ecotox
she/her
📸 by me ✨
PNW 🌲🦉🫐🏕️📚⚗️
funga • flora • fauna
i spend time in old growth forests
co-auth pubs: plant biochem, ecotox
she/her
📸 by me ✨
PNW 🌲🦉🫐🏕️📚⚗️
Pinned
Melody Wainscott
@mrwainscott.bsky.social
· Aug 14
You don’t have to earn this place and nothing is thrown away here. The moss and the rot, the fern and the fallen, all of it breathing together, makes the forest.
#ForestFriday #OlympicPeninsula #PNW #scape #LandscapePhotography #Photography
#ForestFriday #OlympicPeninsula #PNW #scape #LandscapePhotography #Photography
In case of interest she tells her incredible story here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
September 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM
In case of interest she tells her incredible story here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
PRECIOUS BABY SCAMPERING!!! 🐣 🪶
September 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM
PRECIOUS BABY SCAMPERING!!! 🐣 🪶
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
There is no kingdom like the forests.
September 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
There is no kingdom like the forests.
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
“…wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness…”
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
September 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
“…wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness…”
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
What a wondrous presence Annie Dillard’s words of piercing aliveness and immersive attention have been in my life and in this world. Grieving and cherishing her in her passage today.
September 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
What a wondrous presence Annie Dillard’s words of piercing aliveness and immersive attention have been in my life and in this world. Grieving and cherishing her in her passage today.
“…wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness…”
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
September 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
“…wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness…”
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
—Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard died today.
She arrived at a hinge in my life and I never separated the two.
Annie watched hard things and looked at the whole landscape, giving horror and beauty the same care.
#AnnieDillard
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
Hate to break it to y’all, but eventually… we’re gonna have to do something.
March 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hate to break it to y’all, but eventually… we’re gonna have to do something.
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
“Sky water. It needs no fence.”
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
September 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“Sky water. It needs no fence.”
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
Knotted roots
#RockinTuesday #scape
#Twosday #ThickTrunkTuesday
#ColorADay #BlueTue
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKn…
#RockinTuesday #scape
#Twosday #ThickTrunkTuesday
#ColorADay #BlueTue
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKn…
September 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
#RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue
You need to squeeze through, over and around lots of rocks on the Bishop Peak trail in San Luis Obispo.
#ECK #Hiking #BishopPeak #WestCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #SanLuisObispo #Rocks
You need to squeeze through, over and around lots of rocks on the Bishop Peak trail in San Luis Obispo.
#ECK #Hiking #BishopPeak #WestCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #SanLuisObispo #Rocks
September 15, 2026 at 2:35 PM
#RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue
You need to squeeze through, over and around lots of rocks on the Bishop Peak trail in San Luis Obispo.
#ECK #Hiking #BishopPeak #WestCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #SanLuisObispo #Rocks
You need to squeeze through, over and around lots of rocks on the Bishop Peak trail in San Luis Obispo.
#ECK #Hiking #BishopPeak #WestCoastKin #Photography #LandscapePhotography #SanLuisObispo #Rocks
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
Vibrant blue on warm terracotta 🌱🌿
Wishing you a wonderful day 🫶
#ColorADay #blueTue #Flowers #MacroMonday #Photography #Art #Nature #bloomscrolling #ECK #ThelittleThings #Scape
Wishing you a wonderful day 🫶
#ColorADay #blueTue #Flowers #MacroMonday #Photography #Art #Nature #bloomscrolling #ECK #ThelittleThings #Scape
September 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Vibrant blue on warm terracotta 🌱🌿
Wishing you a wonderful day 🫶
#ColorADay #blueTue #Flowers #MacroMonday #Photography #Art #Nature #bloomscrolling #ECK #ThelittleThings #Scape
Wishing you a wonderful day 🫶
#ColorADay #blueTue #Flowers #MacroMonday #Photography #Art #Nature #bloomscrolling #ECK #ThelittleThings #Scape
“Sky water. It needs no fence.”
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
September 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“Sky water. It needs no fence.”
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
— Thoreau, Walden, The Ponds
#ColorADay #BlueTue #Lake #Mountains #Art #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #ECK #OlympicPeninsula
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub.
Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
September 15, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub.
Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣
While reading Paul Stamets I found Herbert’s Dune melange is a metaphor for psilocybe mushrooms and Arrakis is a metaphor for the fungal lifecycle.
It’s not buried in a lost interview. Stamets put it in Mycelium Running (2005), Chpt 9, in a “Musings on Using Spores.”
#vss365 #melange
It’s not buried in a lost interview. Stamets put it in Mycelium Running (2005), Chpt 9, in a “Musings on Using Spores.”
#vss365 #melange
September 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Hi, these are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.
A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.
Last week I […]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.
Last week I […]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
September 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
We are co-leading a coalition of 21 AGs suing to maintain protections for endangered and threatened species imperiled by the federal administration.
September 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
We are co-leading a coalition of 21 AGs suing to maintain protections for endangered and threatened species imperiled by the federal administration.
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
They really are doing their best to dismantle what's left of American democracy, aren't they. My lord.
WA folks will be able to consult a list of drop box & voter center locations as of Sept 18.
WA folks will be able to consult a list of drop box & voter center locations as of Sept 18.
WASHINGTON STATE BUT ALSO EVERYONE
Know how I said you should vote early & if, at all possible, deliver your ballot in person (here: bsky.app/profile/emil...)?
THIS IS WHY.
WA's list of drop box & voter center locations isn't live yet, but will be on Sept 18: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...
Know how I said you should vote early & if, at all possible, deliver your ballot in person (here: bsky.app/profile/emil...)?
THIS IS WHY.
WA's list of drop box & voter center locations isn't live yet, but will be on Sept 18: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...
September 9, 2026 at 2:34 PM
They really are doing their best to dismantle what's left of American democracy, aren't they. My lord.
WA folks will be able to consult a list of drop box & voter center locations as of Sept 18.
WA folks will be able to consult a list of drop box & voter center locations as of Sept 18.
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
This merlin just flew into my house and landed on my desk while I was taking a zoom call.
I now have at least one colleague who thinks I need to come up with better excuses to get out of meetings.
I now have at least one colleague who thinks I need to come up with better excuses to get out of meetings.
September 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
This merlin just flew into my house and landed on my desk while I was taking a zoom call.
I now have at least one colleague who thinks I need to come up with better excuses to get out of meetings.
I now have at least one colleague who thinks I need to come up with better excuses to get out of meetings.
all my skills of the hearth
an inheritance from grandmother
gathering brown eggs
cooking them in olive oil
decades of bacon fat
layered like a palimpsest
season her old cast iron skillet
a ghost in my breakfast
#vss365 #palimpsest
an inheritance from grandmother
gathering brown eggs
cooking them in olive oil
decades of bacon fat
layered like a palimpsest
season her old cast iron skillet
a ghost in my breakfast
#vss365 #palimpsest
September 7, 2026 at 12:46 PM
all my skills of the hearth
an inheritance from grandmother
gathering brown eggs
cooking them in olive oil
decades of bacon fat
layered like a palimpsest
season her old cast iron skillet
a ghost in my breakfast
#vss365 #palimpsest
an inheritance from grandmother
gathering brown eggs
cooking them in olive oil
decades of bacon fat
layered like a palimpsest
season her old cast iron skillet
a ghost in my breakfast
#vss365 #palimpsest
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
And in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
September 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
And in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
Two years ago today, David celebrated the release of his #1 album Luck and Strange by streaming tour rehearsals in Brighton on YouTube, including Between Two Points featuring @romanygilmour.
See the full track on David's YouTube, and let us know your best memories of the album/tour.
#LuckandStrange
See the full track on David's YouTube, and let us know your best memories of the album/tour.
#LuckandStrange
September 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Two years ago today, David celebrated the release of his #1 album Luck and Strange by streaming tour rehearsals in Brighton on YouTube, including Between Two Points featuring @romanygilmour.
See the full track on David's YouTube, and let us know your best memories of the album/tour.
#LuckandStrange
See the full track on David's YouTube, and let us know your best memories of the album/tour.
#LuckandStrange
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
I watched Von Trapped during its making, thrilled to connect that time to this album. Seeing The Webb Sisters performing w/you in ‘Live at the Circus Maximus’, Sheldon, Richard Wright in ‘Luck and Strange’, and ‘Great Gig in the Sky’ w/Romany and Louise Marshall — it is cathartic & spellbinding.
September 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I watched Von Trapped during its making, thrilled to connect that time to this album. Seeing The Webb Sisters performing w/you in ‘Live at the Circus Maximus’, Sheldon, Richard Wright in ‘Luck and Strange’, and ‘Great Gig in the Sky’ w/Romany and Louise Marshall — it is cathartic & spellbinding.
Reposted by Melody Wainscott
Reading in a Landscape,1896 by Finnish painter Ada Thilen #WomensArt
September 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Reading in a Landscape,1896 by Finnish painter Ada Thilen #WomensArt