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Still escaping to my garden to avoid the ubiquitous and ever-disgusting "orange menace" currently in the White House" ...
"Your life will always be better off when you concentrate on the simplest joys of life like drinking a cup of coffee."
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them." ~Paul Coehlo
Many, many thanks to all my Flickr friends for your visits, faves, and kind comments - you are always an inspiration and source of encouragement to me!
I often get glorious sunrises from the deck of my Olympic Peninsula home looking east across fog-shrouded Puget Sound to the Cascade mountain range with Mt. Baker towering above the rest.
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." ~ C.S. Lewis
A frozen water drop that I just happened to see. I sometimes suffer from tunnel vision, glad I didn't on this shot.
Photographed from from my driveway. Smoke from the many wildfires has been hanging over the Yakima Valley off and on, mostly on, for the past week or so causing the sun to be brilliant orange just before sundown. IMG_8165
Photographed from from my driveway. Smoke from the many wildfires has been hanging over the Yakima Valley off and on, mostly on, for the past week or so causing the sun the be brilliant orange just before sundown. IMG_8163
An old retired snowplow quietly resting along NF 23 heading in to Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Randle, Washington.
Armed only with a mug of coffee this chap looked as though he was playing the part. Spotted taking some shelter from the baking hot sunshine in the old town of Winthrop, Washington State.
These chaps have to be able to see around corners so I thought I'd give him a little help by skewing the scene.
Photographed in Yakima County, Washington at my home. Although the flower is attractive these variety did poorly. Few seeds germinated and there is only one blossom per plant. I got only 2 plant out of about 20 seeds. IMG_5451
Photographed at my home. I love those red eyes. I have been taking and photographing more than my share of Sharp-shinned Hawks but what is a person to do when they show up in your back yard and pose. I don't want them to feel ignored. This is the only adult that I have seen in my yard. A juvenile sharpie has been a regular visitor recently. IMG_6766
Continuing on with responsible social distancing and finding things within walking distance of home.
The Big Cedar is 9 ½ feet in diameter and approximately 500 years old. Another lovely hidden gem of my hometown and the closest thing to a trailhead I've had in nearly a month. :)
Wandering Washington's less traveled roads on the way to the largest concrete structure in North America. More to follow on that. Living here my entire life I still can't get enough of the varied landscapes that are present within our borders.
It was just after lunch - 1 pm - when this was taken, yet the sun was just beginning to reach the bottom of the canyon. Light conditions were extreme - to have any color in the canyon wall, the foreground became a silhouette.
The opposite side of the canyon was recovering from a forest fire some years ago. Hard to say if an evergreen forest will be able to grow back in this area.