Wrong Time of Year

Backlit Autumn Colors

I was going through my photo archive looking for photos that the new editing tools might be able to ‘fix’ … when I found this one that didn’t even need fixing. Not sure why I didn’t share it before, and didn’t want to wait until October to share it. So, here it is now in early summer / late spring. Just a reminder to enjoy the warm weather while we have it.

That reminds me of my Uncle Dave commenting to my Aunt Maisie after the June Solstice, that the days were getting shorter. They lived in Alaska, so thinking of the coming short days was not something folks liked to do in June. My Aunt would just reply “Stop it!” … although she had lived with him long enough that she didn’t really expect him to quit.

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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Lupine Along the Trail

Lupine Along the Trail

Walking through fields of lupine up in the high country is one of my favorite things. It’s especially nice when it’s not wet and overgrowing the trail. Then your boots get wet … and usually your socks. It can be uncomfortable the rest of the day. Fortunately, this was dry and away from the trail. Another close up “panorama”.

Most of the white flowers here are American Bistort with one or two strays mixed in.

This was taken on the High Divide trail in Olympic National Park.

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A Little Bit of Self Promotion

Mt Olympus from Bogachiel Pass

This is the photo that I chose for the cover of my hiking memiors: 60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics. I haven’t been able to get a book seller to carry the hard copy yet, but it is available as an eBook on the Amazon Kindle website.

I’ve got it priced low. By the way, if/when I get it available as a hard copy, I’ll let you all know. The 5.5″ x 8.5″ size is priced at $24.99 US and the interior photos are black and white. The Kindle version is priced at $2.99 US and the images are all in color (except for early images that I took on B&W film.) It is available globally.

Here’s the link (or search for “60 Years of Hiking”):

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Panoramas

Heart Lake, Olympic National Park

I have been working for the last several months at putting together my hiking memiors. The title is “60 Years of Hiking in the Olympics”, and yes, that is how long I’ve been doing hikes and backpacks into the park. Since I always had a camera with me on those trips, I have spent hours going through all the images and selecting ones to include. One of the surprises was when I realized that there were several that I had taken with the idea that I might “paste them together” to create panoramas. That was difficult to do back in the film days … digital processing eventually made it as easy as pushing a button. These images are ones that I had never taken the time to paste together … so were new surprises for me. The one above is of Heart Lake on the approach to the High Divide. Below is the view of the Upper Hoh River valley from the middle of the High Divide, looking southeast. Mt Olympus is just to the right of the image … I had created the panorama of that one earlier, but missed this combination. (These were taken with an early digital camera … but before there was easy to use software to stitch them together.)

And when (if) the book is available as an eBook for easy download, I will provide the link.

The Upper Hoh River Valley, Olympic National Park
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