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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Mesa Verde National Park

This is one of America's most fascinating parks: geologists, botanists, zoologists and anthropologists--cultural and archeaological--are drawn here, just as much as photographers, painters and writers. Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Mt Rainier : Winter Afternoon

This was taken from about 40 miles west of the mountain, near Spanaway, WA. It was a cold winter day. If you have seen the sort of abstract shots of ice crystals on puddles posted a while ago--this is where those were taken, this same day. Later, another angle, and afternoon passing into evening... Sign in to see full entry.

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Mt Rainier National Park: Morning Twilight

In the first set of pictures, of the sunlight coming up over the face of Rainier, look carefully in the middle pictures, especially the next to last. Down in front of the mountain, you can see a river, and in that next to last shot, the reflection of the glowing light on a lake. This final picture... Sign in to see full entry.

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Mt Rainier National Park: Ghost trees

In the high meadows just below tree-line, where the trees no longer grow at all, there are many standing skeletons of trees that survived a while to grow, until a season came that overwhelmed them. From Sunrise, there is a trail that leads down among these haunted woods. Some struggle on through the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Mt Rainier National Park: Morning in the Vale

Looking north-- Rainier is to the west... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Mt Rainier National Park: views away from the mountain

Looking down into the vales below Sunrise... Where, the night before, it was filled with mist like a glowing sea, illuminated by moonlight. In the morning comes this perfect clarity of vision. And you can hear the cheery busy-ness of birds and ever-vigilant whistles of marmots. The Sub-Alpine Fir... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Mt Rainier National Park: Morning on the mountain

These were taken after a night in the parking lot at Sunrise, the tourist center on the eastern side of Mt Rainier National Park. The night before had been utterly clear overhead, full of stars and moon, but the valleys far below, on every side, were filled with a sea of cloud, lit by moonlight. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Booking the next adventure...

It will be autumn in New Zealand, in May... One of my favorite times of year! I will be there a month, then return home to summer, and then autumn again. Of course, in the Pacific NW, June can be very spring-ish, so maybe I won't miss out on spring this year after all. Mind you, I am not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

an answer for Majroj

There's Mt. Rainier peering over the hills southwest of this scene. You can see the shadow of the bridge in the glacial silt-laden river. The Carbon River, in the devastating rains of the December after the summer I took these pictures, flooded fiercely, and Majroj, the bridges I saw are no doubt... Sign in to see full entry.

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This blog celebrates its 2000th click!

And gapcohen, Mal gets credit for it, having left a comment as well. The surprise prize, Mal: give me a subject, a place, a theme or whatever you like, and I will try to match a picture to it out of my travel archives. Thank you to everyone who has visited since this one started in March, 2007, as I... Sign in to see full entry.

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About this Blog

Celebrating travel! If you think the world is too big, or the language barriers too high, come along with me, as I bumble my way here and there... The world really is an accessible place-- not as expensive to explore as one might imagine, nor are the language barriers as high, nor the mood of people beyond our borders unwelcoming... ***If you want good prints of any of my photos, email me and I will let you know how to get them. Please respect my copyright on these, they are my retirement account!

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