Chelsea Murphy

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Encouraging a more inclusive and equitable outdoor community while celebrating and representing Black motherhood in the midst of a dominant culture. Join me here.

Shifting outdoor culture. Inspiring joy + liberation.

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Here to help you find your way outside 🌿
🏕️ Black motherhood in the outdoors
🍄‍🟫 30 minutes OUTSIDE everyday
📍 PNW 💌: shecolorsnature@gmail

A mom workout ☺️🤍✨ { sound up for toddler giggles A mom workout ☺️🤍✨

{ sound up for toddler giggles & SHARE the joy }

Wishing each and every one of you here the happiest of holiday seasons! I hope you find peace, rest and joy in your time together with your loved ones. I pray that you know your life is worth living. If you are reading this, you are a wonderful human worthy of love! I hope that my presence here grows the desire in you to be person that goes outside in 2026, committing to a life well lived outdoors - your way. 🌿🍄‍🟫🌙

PSA SAVE THE DATE ‼️

👉🏾 January 24th 2026 @outwardboundusa is hosting THE RESET. It’s 24 hours of intentionally having no screen time. A day to get outside or do something that you love with no phone, TV, computer, video games, nothing!! A full day to reset your head and heart while encouraging the youth and kids you love to do the same! I’m fully in, are you? Head to the link in my bio to register today! 

In the mean time we are getting outside everyday, 30 minutes a day.

See you out there 👋🏾

#MerryChristmas #SheColorsNature #BlackMomsHike #BlackOutdoors #DiversifyOutdoors | Adventure Moms 
The Reset | Toddler Giggles | Moms Who Hike | Snow
While we wait for snow this is a birding account While we wait for snow this is a birding account

For the ones out there who stumbled upon this hobby because hiking is a fast-track gateway drug to enjoying observing different birds in nature. Those of us who have completely surrendered to the urge to bird, downloaded the Marlin app - and don’t even care what people think anymore about how cool we think the variety of native birds and their songs are. Thinking that every second of this 50 second video is worth watching 💙🕊️

I see you AND I hope you find your way outside 🌿

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors #BlackBirder #Birding #BlackOutdoors | Pacific Northwest Birds
PSA LEAVENWORTH WA ‼️‼️ Shop local Leavenworth. E PSA LEAVENWORTH WA ‼️‼️

Shop local Leavenworth. Eat local Leavenworth. Support local Leavenworth!!

and when I say THAT I mean:

❌ Do not get your coffee at the Starbucks - choose Argonaut instead!! @argocoffeeandbiscuits 

❌ Do not get your groceries at the Safeway - choose Dans Food Market instead!! @dans_food_market 

❌ Do not grab lunch at the McDonalds - choose The Loft Bar and Grill instead!! @loftpnw 

If you don’t pay taxes here, live here FULL TIME and own a business downtown - please take a back seat on posting and speaking about Leavenworth on social media!! Share this post instead!! 

‼️Don’t just automatically cancel your reservations for your Christmas vacation - call the hotel and respectfully ask questions! Consider postponing for January or February, the Christmas lights are up until March!

Leavenworth is such a magical place for residents and tourists alike and I know that not every single (local) person will agree with this post - BUT I have spoken with enough friends and community members who are worried about how they are going to put food on the table or keep their business doors open another season. 

✌🏾 PLEASE SHARE. If it wasn’t abundantly clear I do call these P’Squosa ancestral lands my home.

#LeavenworthWashington #Leavenworth #ChristmasTownUSA #ChristmasTown #ShopLocal Shop Leavenworth | Atmospheric River | Small Town
How are you resisting the millennial urge to bird? How are you resisting the millennial urge to bird? 

Yeah, me neither. Anyone know anything about this bird - drop it in the comments? I’m a novice 🤎🪶 

This was about 7am! The early bird - catches the birds I guess! So cool to me! I couldn’t get all of them in frame but I saw 3-4 of them and together they sounded like a large animal with the echo off the mountains. 

I hope you find your way outside today, and discover something cool - if you do I want to hear about it 🌿

#SheColorsNature #BlackBirder #DiversifyOutdoors #Birding #GetOutside #TrailRunning #PatagoniaBlack
About this time last week 🩵 What a time to be ali About this time last week 🩵

What a time to be alive and living in Washington state 😮‍💨 On Wednesday morning 12/10 our renters called to notify us about an alarm that was going off in the basement - which signaled there was an excessive amount of water in it. Thankfully there was no one down there when it happened and my husband was able to begin restoration unaware of the bigger storm on its way we now know as an atmospheric river. Meanwhile, my youngest and I went outside to play in the puddles celebrating the fact that the unceasing rains had stopped, the sun and rainbows were all showing out! That afternoon during nap time I set down to answer some emails, looked outside and thought “hmm. The wind came out of nowhere” and then the power went out. By dinner time it was clear we weren’t getting power back on, the rain had returned as well as what felt like 90 mile an hour winds ALL NIGHT LONG. Wednesday night we passed the hours playing Monopoly as a family until we got so sleepy we could tune out the fact that clearly large objects were flying around and falling all around us outside. 

Thursday morning 12/11 we went on a walk around town with our neighbors to survey the damage that was done and were shook. It was worse than it sounded. Power lines down all over the roads, large 100+ year old trees uprooted like someone’s play toy, trees through homes and multiple cars, trees without tops and serious flooding in some areas - total carnage. Getting back home realizing how lucky we were that the inconvenience of not having power was our biggest problem, but that many in our community were much worse off. Then the rivers started to rise.

The past week has been a month’s worth of problems and many in Leavenworth are still suffering, but as far as I know - no loss of life! Thank God! We now realize this storm affected thousands of Washingtonians, which should be getting national news coverage - but it’s not! There are STILL many homes still under water, people displaced, but our power and WiFi has returned!

CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS, ways to help 🫶🏾👇🏾
Growing food, a liberation practice 🥕 My garden h Growing food, a liberation practice 🥕

My garden has never been the same two years in a row. I have always tried something new in the few beds we have at home. I started gardening and composting several years ago in the first house my husband and I bought. My peaked interest in the garden coincided with my interest in getting outdoors, hiking and camping. At the same time I got curious about the landscape I now call home and wanting to explore it to no end, I did the same with the soil in our humble city lot. Wondering - what’s possible? What can I grow with my own hands, child on my hip, knees on the ground, fingernails filled with dirt, hair wrapped in a bandana? 

Even in the seasons I don’t take as good of care of the seeds I have so much intention of spending time with, we still harvest food. I procrastinated harvesting some things this year until the last weekend possible before the snow came, I didn’t thin the carrots like I should have, the potatoes could have used twice as much water as they got - and still we were spoiled. I enjoy gardening because there is always a lesson or something new to be learned. It’s something I can do with my kids and we’ve established good soil that will continue to nourish us as long as we reciprocate the energy. 

I am a Black woman who gardens and enjoys spending time outside, this was my nature time for the day. Bountiful 👩🏾‍🌾🫶🏾🪏 

Do you have a garden?

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors
A CYBER MONDAY DEAL THATS OUT THERE 🦋❄️ @reimanor A CYBER MONDAY DEAL THATS OUT THERE 🦋❄️

@reimanorthamerica is serving the outdoor kids community with the biggest site-wide sale yet: 30% off + free shipping + MY code (( shecolors20 )) to stack for an extra 20% off 🤯 Time to move some things off the wishlist and into your cart!!

Our family favorites:

👉🏾Stavanger Kids ReimaTec Snowsuit
👉🏾Parvin Merino Wool Jumpsuit
👉🏾Toddler & Kids Barefoot shoes and boots

✨Designed in Finland, 80 years of experience 
✨Details that puts all kids well-being first
✨Lasting through multiple seasons & multiple kids 
✨No rips or tears, no holes in the knees - EVER.

Hope you find your way outside today 🫶🏾

#ReimaPartner
@Reima
#TeamBronco_Ambassador | Connecting people to the #TeamBronco_Ambassador | Connecting people to the outdoors responsibly since 2020!! Happy Birthday #BroncoWildFund 🎉🌳🌎 

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