I want to hang on the colors of autumn all year.

"If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season."

~ Shana Chartier

"Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Photographed in my yard, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_0350

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This was captured in Gig Harbor Washington State

Glacier View Trail-Wenatchee, Washington

Sunrise clouds and Mt. Rainier.

A bird that visits my yard. This birds show up off and on at least once or twice a weeks. First seen in November, 2020.

Backyard birds, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_3423

Rainier Reflected? Little Tahoma Peak is the dark peak to the right of Mt. Rainier.

I shot this one around 11 PM as the full moon lit up the mountain. The photo looked very clear in my viewfinder. When I got home I needed to work the software to get the image to show up at all. Next time I will make sure I am shooting RAW when shooting night photos. Finding an easy way to focus in the dark is still difficult. Turning all the way to infinity does not work. Perhaps I need a wide angle lens with a single focal length?

It was a challenge to find the right spot in the dark. I admit to getting 'a little bit turned around' and could not find the stairs back to the car.

Comments, criticism and suggestions welcomed here.

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All was still at Rapjohn Lake, I don't recall hearing a sound. There was no one there to see me, but I probably looked pretty foolish tiptoeing around trying not to break the enchantment. :-) Happy Sunday folks, and thanks for stopping by.

Photographed along Highway 12 (White Pass Highway), Yakima County, Washington. IMG_3067

I have to wonder what it's like to be a lone pine, a tree meant to stand in forests and relies on it's neighbors to keep it standing yet this fellow has wandered down the mountainside to stare it's grandfathers killer in the eye. One day soon it will be joined by another and then another until the forest is replenished, but until then this lone adventurer leads the way and stands sentinel over a land devastated thirty seven years ago.

Sink Lake trail, ONF.

Tulip macro photographed in my flower garden, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_5053

A favorite spot to relax and unwind.

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

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Photographed at Vantage, Washington. IMG_0323

Photographed at my home, Yakima County, Washington.

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Photographed at my home, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_3038

Photographed in the Blue Mountains, Walla Walla County, Washington near a nest box. There are many nest boxes along the Jasper Mountain Road and some of the other roads in the area. I believe this one was on Whiskey Creek Road. Most appeared to be occupied mostly by bluebirds but a few are being used by Tree Swallows. IMG_1945

While looking at East Canyon Creek Falls, I looked a little farther upstream and found this waterfall where Tule Creek empties into East Canyon Creek. There wasn't any reference to it on the Northwest Waterfall Survey, but the upper part of the creek seems to be known to canyoneers, here: ropewiki.com/Tule_Canyon_(South_Cascades)

A sure sign of spring in the Northwest, Trillium and Bumble bees.

Photographed at Tieton State Air Strip Marsh, Yakima County, Washington.

A shot from the Spruce Railroad Trail in Olympic National Park. 11 shot panorama done in Lightroom.

Salt Lake Creek Park about 15 miles west of Port Angeles, Washington on U.S. Route 101 near the city of Joyce, Washington. The park was previously Camp Hayden, a World War II military camp. Foto feita no Salt Creek Park.

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.

An old retired snowplow quietly resting along NF 23 heading in to Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Randle, Washington.

A few more shots from a trip to the northeastern part of the state

A Ferry arrives at the Ferry Terminal in Seattle photographed from the Ferry on which I'm traveling out into Elliot Bay.

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Astrophotography from Washington State Olympic National Park, New Moon, during astronomy tour in Hurricane Ridge.

Canon EOS Ra, EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, f/2.8; ISO 12800, Combination of two photos 4 sec and 30 sec, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington State.

An abandoned homestead with a rusty old truck on the Palouse in Washington state.

Backyard birds, West Valley area, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_0618

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Sculpture at Hiram Chittenden Locks, Seattle

Not the most attractive wildflower, but many more attractive plants will bloom in a few weeks and months on the Cowiche Conservancy properties where I took these photos. Yakima, Washington.

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Hangman Creek, also known as Latah Creek, flows from the Rocky Mountains to the Spokane River in Spokane, Washington. It drains 673 sq miles. This creek has something of a dark past. In 1854, during a war between the Palouse Indians and the U.S. Army, several Palouse were hung along its banks.

Photographed in my yard, Yakima County, Washington.

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