Tag: Port Townsend

Rust and Gray Paint

Rust and Gray Paint

This is a section of rusty metal on the WWI shore batteries. I thought it was an interesting pattern. I took this with my first digital camera, an Olympus E-10 back in 2002. I’m pretty impressed that the quality is as good as it is. If you increase the zoom to 300% it falls apart and just isn’t usable. But at this size, it looks pretty good. This was taken at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, while I was visiting for the day. I was living in Olympia at the time … it was another 15 years or so before I moved here. Another reminder why I like it this much here.

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Siberian Iris

Siberian Iris (1)

I took these this week in my garden. I have had this little bunch of Siberian Iris since we bought the house, but this was the first year that I have pruned back the old vegetation in the fall. In past years I had some blooms in January, but I’m getting lots more blooms and earlier. Not sure if it is the pruning or not, but the weather hasn’t been particularly unusual this fall. We’ll see … if I remember to prune in October next fall.

The above image was isolated using an AI mask in Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Siberian Iris (2)
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A Purple Road

Purple Road

Well, it isn’t UW Husky purple … but it comes sorta close if you squint hard enough.

This is a road in Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend WA. Covered with Doug fir needles and a few W Hemlock and W Red Cedar’s mixed in. This is the road that I walk regularly for my exercise program. It’s only used for service vehicles, so no danger of getting run over (except by a speedy occasional bicycle enthusiast).

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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
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Fall Colors at Fort Worden

Fall Colors at Fort Worden (1)

Fort Worden is just north of downtown Port Townsend, Washington. I go there frequently to get some exercise and to enjoy the views. The big leaf maples are very colorful in the park this year. Other areas seem to have suffered from dry weather, but the park sits next to salt water and get moist weather more often. Below is detail.

Fall Colors at Fort Worden (2)
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