The fog was rolling in to complete this Autumn scene in the Mt Baker National Forest. It is late in the season, but the snow has yet to fall. This building is at the edge of the Mt Baker Ski Area, and the surrounding scenery is well worth a look. As long as you don’t [...]
As you travel through the roads crisscrossing the Cascade Mountains, there are literally hundreds of places where a person could stop just to watch a river go by among the trees. Every time you do that, it is worth the stop. There is nothing like watching nature flow by. This scene was found along the [...]
When you head out to the coast, the waves are always rolling into the beach. Even in a still photo, there is something soothing about the waves rolling in. But just contemplate this — the waves keep rolling in, day and night, even when you are not there to see them. Awesome thought. Photo: These [...]
The thing about spring: After living through months with trees bare of their leaves, all of a sudden there are trees all over the place with white and pink buds. All is well with the world now, as there is color all around us. We start to take the color in the trees for granted, [...]
You might not see it at first — the day is just the right shade of hazy. Looking over Southeast Portland from Council Crest Park, Mt Hood can be seen ever so faintly in the distance. Another day, and Mt Hood puts on another show for us. Photo: Taken from Council Crest Park in Portland [...]
So, there are a lot of reasons why I like this photo of the Moreland True Value Hardware Store. One is, of course, all of that neato neon all over the building and the sign. You just don’t see that anymore. But beyond that, It’s great that a small store can still operate after so [...]
The Admiralty Head Lighthouse sits in what is the present day Fort Casey State Park on the western shore of Whidbey Island. Built in 1861, the lighthouse not only marks the location of the island, it also is the point in the Salish Sea where the Strait of Juan de Fuca ends and Puget Sound [...]
Yes, this is another one of those nighttime pictures where the camera slipped. Still, it would be totally cool if the moon were heart shaped. Just so we have a more conventional night photo here, here’s the real moon: Photos: Taken in Southwest Portland on 1 July 2007.
“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to [...]
Thinking about ferry boats again. Here, the Washington State Ferries M/V Elwha is seen on its approach to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. Though the event occurs several times per day, there always seems to be a bit of anticipation when you see the ferry coming into port. Both for us, and the folks [...]
