Old Windows

Old Church Window

Driving around on backcountry roads you can find a lot abandoned churches and schools. Before transportation was motorized, schools and churches were local even in rural areas so that folks could access their services. The image above was taken somewhere out in the backcountry in north central Oregon, somewhere near Wasco … where the image of the storefront window below was shot. The church window gave me fits trying to get an image that didn’t look crooked. Oh well. I think it’s past it’s time of being worried about squared up.

Storefront Window

Road Surface — No Traffic

After a Frost

Above is the Elwha River Road (Olympic National Park) … a section that is past the barricade due to a washout. Below is one of the roads in Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend … one that is open only to pedestrians and bicyclists (and service vehicles). In both cases, vehicles on the road would have left tire tracks in the frost or the needles blown down during a wind storm.

After a wind storm

Lake Chelan — 2 views

Looking down to Lake Chelan

Lake Chelan is fjord-like. It is about 50 miles long (over 81 km) and averages 1.3 miles (2 km) wide. At the upper (north) end the lake lies between mountain ridges that soar up 6600 feet (2000 m). There is a boat that runs from the town of Chelan at the southern end to Stehekin at the north end. It makes a lovely day trip with stops at 25 Mile and Lucerne on the way.

Lake Chelan from the South Shore Road.

North Central Cascades

View across to Glacier Peak from near Lake Chelan

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that many of my photos are taken in the Olympic Peninsula. I do go other places … and I grew up spending much more time in the North Central Cascades … which were much closer to my home in North Seattle. The forest in North Cascades are much different than the rainforests of the Olympics. These were taken on the east side of the range, near Lake Chelan, about where the transition to pine forest begins.

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