It was a dark and stormy night, as the sun was setting over an autumn day. On this day, people were coming out to see the first big storm of the season, with its ominous looking clouds, coupled with an unusually high tide that sent the waves over the walls and railings into the walkways. [...]
In yesterday’s photo, I invited you to take a seat on the bench and take in the sunset. Well, if you had taken my advice, you would have been rewarded with the proverbial ship sailing into the sunset. I wonder where it’s going…. Photo: Taken at Olympic Beach in Edmonds on 21 July 2011.
Come on over. There’s plenty of room on the bench. The sun is about to set, and the view will be wonderful. There might even be a ship or two to watch sailing off into the sunset. That’s Whidbey Island over there in distance, and Puget Sound in the foreground. Photo: Taken at Olympic Beach [...]
As the sun begins to set behind the Olympic Mountains, the great blue heron (Ardea herodias) stands on watch, looking over its shoulder to look for passing ships. Or perhaps a passing fish for dinner. I’m sure it has a great view of the people (homo sapiens) standing on the beach watching it. Photo: Taken [...]
It was once said, or was it sung, that the bluest skies you’ll ever see are in Seattle. That certainly may be true, but you have to account for the fact that the sky lies beyond the clouds on most days. Despite the clouds, there was still enough sun shining on the Seattle skyline to [...]
All at once, I was standing at a viewpoint over looking the Pacofic Ocean. I was upon Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain, which we learned in yesterday’s post was named in local legends as meaning “the place of the supreme diety.” So it was an amazing surprise to see the sun shine through the clouds near sunset in [...]
It was a rainy day on the Oregon Coast this week, and the town of Wheeler in Tillamook County was no exception. Despite a rather heavy rain shower, there were kids riding by on bicycles, three young men checking their crab pots from a nearby dock in the bay, and these boats, near the Wheeler [...]
Depending upon how you look at life, the State Fair is either an opportunity to expand your horizons by testing the limits of your abilities, in this case by being slung into the air by this contraption; or, it is the opportunity to spend thirty bucks a head to do something so crazy that a [...]
As the sun sets on another summer, we can reflect on some of the paces that we have seen it this year. On one day in August, it was a bit of a relief to note that the sun had passed behind the trees for a moment. Of course, in the whole celestial scheme of [...]
Fly. Be Free. Be free to fly anywhere within the range of your species. Enjoy the beautiful day. Enjoy the sky. Look down at the world, while the world looks back at you. Open your wings, but don’t care who sees you. Look for fish. Look for french fries. Just be the bird. Photo: Taken [...]
