These are a couple of sky images that I took a while back. Both were taken from Olympia. The one above was pretty dramatic and I was stunned by the way no one else seemed to notice or pay attention.
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:
Just some photos of trees. Always my favorite.
This time of year they sleep and I think I’ll join them and go take a nap.
On the other hand, once the fog burns off, the trees like the warmth of the sun. So do I.
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.
I was spending some time at Kalaloch at the coast in the Olympic National Park. The weather was pretty good, we just had a few showers. Didn’t get a good sunset photo, but got this before the clouds closed in. Stay tuned for some additional posts from the trip …
I was hiking up the Mount Walker trail in the Olympic National Forest recently. It’s a good warm up hike … close to Port Townsend and pretty steep, but short. What I like best is I can drive to the top and hike down until my knees are complaining, then turn around and hike back up. On the return trip, I came around the corner of a switchback and there was a rhododendron highlighted by the sun through a break in the forest canopy.