PT Under Blue Moon

After a cloudy day, the sky cleared to reveal a moonlit cityscape. The foreground shows the upper Umatilla Hill neighborhood. The distant hills are Morgan Hill and Uptown. The green lights on the horizon are PT High School, not a UFO.

Here are my favorite photos of the year. A couple were not published on the blog, as they were taken the same day as ones I did post.

Old Boat on the Beach

Captain

Bywater Bay Sunrise

Bywater Bay Marsh

Old Timer

North Beach Sunset

Point Wilson Lighthouse at Sunrise

Rec Center Moon

Beaver Valley Rainbow

Sunrise Fisherman

Snow Creek Mud Flats

Moon Over Admiralty Inlet

Point Wilson Lighthouse at Sunrise

County Courthouse

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Glacier Spirit tour boat.

The Glacier Spirit, run by Puget Sound Express, takes tours to the San Juan Islands and runs occasional charters to Protection Island. It’s in Point Hudson for this photo.

Heron Fishing at Night

I was lucky to even see this bird. The evening was actually darker than the photo and I was focused on taking pictures of Point Hudson, which was on the other side of the dock. Fortunately the bird stood still for the 15 seconds the exposure took.

Slough on the Bluff

This slough (rhymes with tough), or small landslide, on the bluff above the Larry Scott Trail reminds us that the cliffs around Port Townsend are not made of rock but of highly compacted silt.  After the heavy rains early last week, this section of bluff slid down, creating a giant bird’s nest out of the displaced blackberry vines.

Frost on the road

Clear, crisp and frosty, early mornings have been beautiful for the last few days.

Beach at Fort Worden

On a sunny and calm Christmas day the thing to do is bundle up and walk on the beach.