I’m not sure that I really ever got out to walk around my neighborhood, until the day that the snow was bad enough that we took the day off at work. Yes, the cedar and pine trees are there all the time, as well as the hedges and the steep roadway. but when they are [...]
A little bit of Winter, spread out in the right places, can turn an otherwise mundane place into a thing of beauty. Here, a small park next to a county courthouse becomes a Winter wonderland. The snow and ice decorate the trees in just the right way, like it is flocked for the holiday season. [...]
Actually, I’m not entirely sure if you would call this sleet or snow, although it was the very start of the week of winter weather we had here around the middle of January. There’s nothing particularly scenic about this scene, but I thought it was pretty cool that the sleet is just stopped there in [...]
One of the things that I had forgotten about Downtown Seattle is the large number of directions from which it can be photographed. It’s location, surrounded by hills and the bay, make the possibilities numerous. In this case, I took a few minutes to take some pictures from a viewpoint on Seattle’s Beacon Hill. Although [...]
In the Summertime, the beach in Seaside is teeming with activity. Kids of all ages are playing on the swing-set, and gathering around the volleyball nets that are usually around this area. Yet, on a lonely Winter day, the surf continues to come in, the wind shapes the beach-grass into a new hairdo, and the [...]
Just take a look out from between the trees up on Terwilliger Blvd. There’s the Hawthorne Bridge and the Morrison Bridge out there, and the Convention Center in the background. But not much else is visible on a quiet Christmas afternoon looking out over the Willamette River. Photo: Taken from Terwilliger Blvd in Portland on [...]
The tide was extra high this night, and the storm was brewing over the city of Edmonds. Despite it all, the ferries keep running to get everyone safely to their homes. The sun is just setting, as if you could see it through all of those layers of clouds. The Washington State Ferries M/V Puyallup [...]
Sometimes it takes a bit of work to get to a secluded part of the beach. This stretch is about a mile down a steep trail in the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge near Sequim. There’s nothing like the waves crashing on the beach, watching the birds go by, and dreaming of the sea along the [...]
The most obvious thing that I can say about this scene from the bay in Kingston, Washington is that the tide is out. It’s very out. The private boat dock with the boat next to it is about 200 feet from the edge of the water, with only the muddy ground in between. The seagulls [...]
It really wasn’t that long ago that we were enjoying sunny days that were a bit warmer than they are now. There’s always time to take a seat on the lawn and look out over Elliott Bay and just relax. The homes are near the Magnolia neighborhood in Seattle, near the Elliott Bay Marina. (Or, [...]
