Just eat of Olympia on I-5 is the Billy Frank Jr Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. Excellent for bird watching and nature photography. The twin barns are iconic. The area was a dairy farm in the early years.
I hiked there for years until the dikes were breached to improve salmon habitat by increasing the wetlands.
We were out at Finn River Farm (in Chimacum, Washington, about 10 miles south of Port Townsend) getting some dinner and were waiting outside. It was the first weekend in November and we were very lucky to get a sunny day. Even luckier was to be treated to this natural light show. The other folks that were around didn’t seem to have even noticed. This solar halo occurs when the sunlight is reflected by ice crystals high in the atmosphere.
This is just south of Port Townsend, WA on the Larry Scott Memorial (Rails to Trails). This trail is a section of a future hoped for route for hiking or riding across the US …
This was taken with a Pentax 645N film camera on Kodak Portra 400.
These old fences were on the Kestner Homestead within the Olympic National Park in the Quinault Rainforest.
This is the Kestner Homestead in the Olympic National Park. The homestead is vacant … the National Park allowed the Kestner’s to remain as long as they wanted … but they were unable to sell the property to anyone except the National Park. In the front yard was this John Deere No. 1.
