Tag: Olympia

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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More Sky Lights: Sun and Moon

Sunset over Capitol Lake

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.

Moon and Clouds

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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Mima Mounds Natural Area

Mima Mounds

This Natural Area is south of Olympia just west of I-5. There are a number of walking trails through the mounds and a lot of signs explaining the history of the area. It’s pretty amazing. There are approximately 8-10 mounds per acre, measuring 1–7 feet (0.30–2.13 m) in height and having diameters 8–40 feet (2.4–12.2 m). The origin of the mounds is unknown with a number of alternate hypotheses including shaking from earthquakes while glacial outwash material is uncompacted, animal (gopher, etc) construction and windblown sediment accumulation around plants, among others. Regardless of origin, they make a very interesting walk.

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Monochrome Vista

Monochrome Vista

Here’s another image from the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge from before the breach of the Nisqually dike system (which opened up acres of salt water marsh for young salmon habitat). I love the monochrome of this image … monochrome, even though in full color. Click on the image for an enlarged view and see the interesting texture that this one ended up with. (just don’t ask me what I did!)

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