Tim Johns

@timjohns

I characterize the emergent behavior of complex systems and react accordingly. That could be debugging code, culture building, or coaching for organizational change. Other interests include security and privacy, photography, and road trips.

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Tim Johns@timjohns· 21d

Just another stunning Edmonds waterfront sunset. This place is a cheat code for beauty, and especially with the cool breeze tonight, it was another all-around spectacular summer evening. We are lucky to be alive; we are lucky to be here, now. #edmonds #marina #dock #sunset #boats #photography

Sailboats in their slips at the Edmonds Marina dock just after sunset, with a deep orange glowing sky near the horizon, transitioning to blue. The Olympic Mountain range is in the background, across Puget Sound. There are a few distant wispy clouds out over the Olympics.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Jul 7

Can't tell if my watch is just sleep-shaming me...or maybe thinks I'm dead?

Garmin fitness tracker watch on my wrist showing "Still awake?" followed by "Sleep is the best way to recharge and recover from a stressful day. Try to clear your mind, relax and get some sleep."

Tim Johns@timjohns· Jul 5

Seems like the vast majority of us stragglers took it all in stride, and appreciate the @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov crew that are going to be working late to get us home. People are playing cards, taking naps, laughing and joking.

Stragglers waiting at the Kingston terminal in lawn chairs and on blankets.

Tim Johns@timjohns· May 20

I took the #scenicroute on a #roadtrip from Southern California, zig-zagging back and forth across the state. We spent one of the nights in Fort Bragg, California, where I caught this #crescentmoon setting over the #puddingcreek trestle. #photography #california #moon #trestle #sunset

Very thin sliver of a crescent moon setting over the Pudding Creek trestle in Fort Bragg California on May 17, 2026 just after sunset, with birds flying above the trestle silhouetted against the sky, which ranges from deep blue at the top to orange near the horizon.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Apr 23

OK so this hits just a little too close to home...

Meme showing kids in dirty clothes and a smiling well-dressed woman standing around a messy table in a run-down room with peeling paint and drywall and a broken window, with the caption "Mom, how did we get so poor?" "Your father spent our life savings on Claude code and shipped nothing."

Tim Johns@timjohns· Mar 22

It cleared up later, and I ran down to the water hoping to get a dramatic shot out over the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. Got a potential Aurora alert, too. No dice. Got a fun little photo bomb by The Pleiades, but no Aurora and the moon was hilariously obscured by the ONLY clouds left 😂.

The Pleiades over Puget Sound (with clouds on the horizon)

Tim Johns@timjohns· Mar 9

Current radar is doing an amazing job illustrating the point (expand photo for full screenshot). Tonight's is a beautiful PSCZ, and that blue circle is my location.

Screenshot of weather radar showing a textbook Puget Sound Convergence Zone running East from Edmonds/Lynnwood into the Cascades, with a blue circle representing the poster's location in Lynnwood.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Mar 9

Find someone that looks at you like my granddog Minty looks at me. I'm smart enough to know that I'm not the MOST important humans in this big beautiful brindled beast's life (my daughter-in-law is), but she sure makes me feel like it.

A beautiful brindled beast of a dog looking up at me with LITERAL big puppy dog eyes.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Mar 2

I took this shot of the moon tonight while trying to get my settings dialed in, but it's quite possibly in vain. The Pacific Northwest weather: Making a mockery of humans trying to witness celestial events since at least 13,000 BC. #wawx #pnw #eclipse

Close-up of the nearly full moon from Sunday, March 1

Partial screenshot from weather.com, of the weather report for the night of Monday March 2 for the Seattle area, showing "Partly cloudy skies in the evening, then becoming cloudy overnight.", which indicates it's likely to be cloudy for the lunar eclipse. Also shows Low of 47F, Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph, 18% chance of precipitation. 84% humidity, UV index 0 of 11, Moonrise 5:22 pm, Moonset 6:33 am, Full Moon.

Partial screenshot from timeanddate.com, showing a table with seven rows, each of which is one of the stages of the lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of March 3, along with the footnote "The Moon is above the horizon during the eclipse, so with good weather conditions in Seattle, the entire eclipse is visible."

(Poster's note: the Seattle weather at this time is expected to be cloudy)

Tim Johns@timjohns· Feb 9

Apparently Lynnwood, WA appreciates the outcome of tonight's game. #seahawks #superbowl

Tim Johns@timjohns· Jan 2

Watching Shadows Under the Market at seattlepublictheater.org was easily one of the highlights of 2025. Criminally underrated. I still can't believe this just ran for a little over a week and didn't go insanely viral, at least regionally. Such a great show. #theater #seattle

Night photo of the dimly lit front of the historic Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake, with the brightly lit marquee showing "Shadows Under the Market, August 1 to 9, seattlepublictheater.org" over the closed front arched double doors. No one is in the photo, giving it a dark lonely vibe very appropriate to the play.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Dec 26

I am pretty sure my daughter has the most photogenic dog on the planet.

Big beautiful brindled beast of a mutt, looking lovingly and forlornly at the photographer as if she were the puppy Mona Lisa herself.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Nov 13

Project Plowshare might disagree with your definition of "better done". Which reminds me, I have been to both the beach and Exploding Whale Memorial Park in Florence, but I still need to check the Sedan crater off of my bucket list.

Me beside the "Exploding Whate Memorial Park" sign at Exploding Whate Memorial Park, Florence, OR

Tim Johns@timjohns· Oct 11

Starting to regret not watching this game...

Several BlueSky posts referencing the Mariners/Detroit ALDS championship game apparently very much in extra innings

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 29

Calling it a Day #stunday #photography #sunset #sky #water #smoke

Small powerboat in Puget Sound, with a very red orange setting sun in a smokey sky above the Olympic Mountains

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 27

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

Classic screen from the game Oregon Trail, showing monochrome green block graphics of a covered wagon, with the text caption "You have died of dysentery."

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 25

10% waxing crescent moon that set at approximately 242 degrees at 7:46pm tonight, Sept. 24. Ferry is the M/V Kaleetan. Colors and haze courtesy the Bear Gulch Fire. Still looking for that one perfect shot, though. Back out next month! #photography #wawx #moon @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov

Crescent moon after sunset, barely cutting through smoky haze from the Bear Gulch Fire, setting behind the M/V Kaleetan docked at the Edmonds ferry dock.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 22

G'night, summer. #stunday #photography #edmonds #pugetsound #summer #fall #sunset #clouds

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 21

It's the heron's world and we're all just living in it. #photography #birds #pugetsound #wildlife

Great Blue heron sitting in Puget Sound, watching a giant cruise ship passing by in the hazy and obviously distant background.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 17

Smoke plume from the #beargulchfire on the Olympic Peninsula, rising behind a docked Washington State ferry, as seen from Sunset Ave in Edmonds, WA. #wawx #smoke #fire @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov #photography @watchduty.org #wildfire #wildfires #wawildfire

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 14

Just another Puget Sound sunset. The universe, or God, or nature, makes the art. I'm just incredibly lucky to get to be here to press the shutter release sometimes. #stunday #photography #edmonds #ferry #sunset

Sun setting behind the Olympic mountains across Puget Sound, with a ferry at the dock and the silhouette of a man looking on in awe, alongside his child, who is presumably looking at something else just as fascinating nearby on the beach.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 13

The Walla Walla departing Edmonds for Kingston at sunset, Friday Sept. 12 #photography #washington #pnw #ferry #wallawall #sunset #goldenhour @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov #wsdot #wsf #nikon #z50 #summer #fall

The Washington State ferry "Walla Walla" departing Edmonds, Washington for Kingston, Washington, illuminated by the sun setting behind the Olympic mountains across Puget Sound

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 7

Good turnout today at the #Edmonds Car and Motorcycle show. This blue 1967 Chevy Malibu was my personal favorite, as it reminded me of my brother's car, and one of the first insane road trip dates I took my future wife on. #carshow #washington #classic #cars #photography #roadtrip #chevy #malibu

Crowd on Edmonds Washington's 5th Ave South, at the Edmonds Car show.

Full shot of blue 1967 Chevy Malibu, with the trunk and hood open at the Edmonds Car Show

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 1

August may have been good, but I don't know because I was flying back from dropping a kid at college. Priorities; no regrets. I did take this shot out the airplane window on my Pixel 7a, somewhere over central California. The next night the smoke from the Bear Gulch fire was in the way.

Crescent moon and clouds at sunset, through an airplane window.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Sep 1

One of my (many) attempts from July, still too far north and the clouds weren't right.

Crescent moon setting over the Olympic mountains across Puget Sound at sunset.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Aug 31

We used to call #Edmonds, Washington "Deadmonds", and joke about rolling the sidewalks up at 6pm. Not for a while now, though -- vibrant nightlife on a cool end-of-summer Saturday evening. #photography #nikon

Nighttime view looking up well-lit Main street in Edmonds, Washington, with all of the parallel parking taken, trees along the street in the foreground, dark blue sky in the background, and a few cars also traveling up and down the street.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Aug 22

Bishop, California cannot possibly be real. Nobody likes to have to navigate around road construction, but when this is the background...well maybe that's not so bad. #bishop #california #mountains #yosemite #sierras

Some stunning mountains after sunset, as seen while looking down the street past some road construction in Bishop, California.

Tim Johns@timjohns· Aug 10

I'm Still Here, A Shadow Under the Market #photography

Backlit slightly wilted flower with barely visible wisps of cobweb

Tim Johns@timjohns· Aug 3

Living a few miles inland of Puget Sound feels like a cheat code for #stunday.

Sailboat on Puget Sound with orange sunset in the background

Tim Johns@timjohns· Aug 2

Opening Night Vibe Shadows Under the Market -- a teen horror comedy, at the Seattle Public Theater #theater #theatre #seattle #openingnight #greenlake