The Bloedel Mansion

The Bloedel Mansion

Located on Bainbridge Island, just a short ferry ride across Puget Sound from Seattle, the Bloedel Nature Reserve includes the Bloedel Mansion. The gardens are a photographers delight. The preserve and mansion are open to the public for tours or for just walking through and enjoying the luxury that was paid for from the profits of being a timber baron.

A reminder:

I have a book available on the Kindle site. It is a memoir titled 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. It has over 100 photographs and covers more than 100 different hikes and backpacks. I have it priced to share at $2.99 (US).

Here’s the link (Click the “Get Book” button):

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Geese Taking Off

Geese Taking Off

I saw this small group of geese taking off at the Nisqually Natural Wildlife Refuge (AKA Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge) just east of Olympia, WA. There were thousands (?) on the ground there, but these five seemed to have a group of their own.

A reminder:

I have a book available on the Kindle site. It is a memoir titled 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. It has over 100 photographs and covers more than 100 different hikes and backpacks. I have it priced to share at $2.99 (US).

Here’s the link (Click the “Get Book” button):

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Foggy Morning

Foggy Morning

I like the muted tones that fog gives you … it softens everything.

I took this near Capitol Lake in Olympia, WA. using a 300mm lens on my Nikon D810. I cropped the bottom off, it seemed to distract from the main photo element.

Reminder:

I have a book available on the Kindle site. It is a memoir titled 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. It has over 100 photographs and covers more than 100 different hikes and backpacks. I have it priced to share at $2.99 (US).

Here’s the link (Click the “Get Book” button:

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The Elbow of the Columbia

The Columbia River at Lincoln, WA

I had friends drive me up to the bluff behind their house in town of Lincoln, WA (just right of center, on the river). The Columbia River takes a hard left and heads north to Canada just on the east side of town. I used a digital camera on this, but didn’t have a wide angle lens with me, so took a series and then pieced them together for the pano using Lightroom. I added contrast which emphasized the clouds … they weren’t quite so dramatic in “real life”.

I have a book available on the Kindle site. It is a memoir titled 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. It has over 100 photographs and covers more than 100 different hikes and backpacks. I have it priced to share at $2.99 (US).

Here’s the link: (Click the Get Book button)

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Hollow Pilings

Hollow Pilings

These pilings always intrigued me. Especially the daffodils (at least that’s what they look like here) that are growing in several of them. Did someone plant them? How did they do that? from a canoe, maybe? They are in Capitol Lake in Olympia, WA … and how are they growing? Did dirt get added to the cavities, or are they just growing in rotting wood?

Questions with no answers from your blogger.

One answer to an unasked question: the shadow is of a railroad tressle.

I have a book available on the Kindle site. It is a memoir titled 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. It has over 100 photographs and covers more than 100 different hikes and backpacks. I have it priced to share at $2.99 (US).

Here’s the link:

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