Olympic NP Through Lake Cushman Gap

Better Large. This is looking West over Lake Cushman toward the Olympic National Park mountains. Although the lake is low until summertime, it has beautiful color and shape-surrounded by mountains and looking through to a snow-capped mountain through the gap. The rain, sunlight, and clouds are an added bonus here to help feather the light a little. Shot through consistent raindrops! In this area you better shoot fast...it rains constantly. As mentioned before, this is in one of the few (if not only) northern latitude rain forests in the world. A special place...in a huge area...with endless photo ops!

 

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Reflections On A Question Not Asked (JHWatkins)

 

I would not worship nature,

but

watch the firestorms

of evening Eden’s

colliding with collars of stars,

bordering the spreading blankets...

flowing......floating on mist.

 

Here deep spells

speak to rising hearts

of early years... tears...

and beginnings,

failed then

flourishing

in fading light.

 

Many the meetings in mirrors,

Reflection souls,

Broken and healed,

Sing out, having heard the cry

Wishing, then wondering-

Then washed by

colors of the night.

 

I would not worship nature

but cry quietly at

whispers of deep dreamy forests

drumming with wooden warmth

lost in caverns,

ascending in autumns,

forsaken in fragments

and

flames of the glowing day.

 

Come now,

softer than nature,

with wounded revelations,

Waves of somber subtle summers,

winters, and springs-

Come straighter and stronger,

on strict lines of deft decisions

resting by quietest waters

of heart streams

that have come home

to the

fountain of the universe.

 

James Watkins 12-31-08

Done