I don’t typically use special effect filters on photos, but this scene seems to work well with a painterly simplicity. After another week of overcast, Monday dawned clear and beautiful, and I enjoyed the hike up to the battery hill and this overlook of the parade ground and Admiralty Inlet.
On Battery Hill, above the main buildings of Fort Worden State Park sits a meadow. Looking south from the meadow you can see the parade ground and the buildings of the fort. The water is Admiralty Inlet, the northern most section of Puget Sound where it meets the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
This starfish or sea star found itself stranded above the water at low tide on the Fort Worden State Park beach. Some young boys were headed our way so I tossed the animal into the water before the boy saw it. Who knows what they would have done to the thing.
We had a nice day today, and should for the first day of spring, when this picture will display. The recent rains have left nice reflecting pools in any catch basin available. This one is in the North Beach parking lot, overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Fort Worden, now a terrific conference center and state park was originally founded to host large gun batteries that guarded the entrance to Puget Sound. With Fort Casey and Fort Flagler it formed a point of a triangle of gun emplacements. The batteries in Fort Worden offer a glimpse of the past as well as [...]
Morning clouds and fog visited us for most of last week, especially on the north side of the peninsula around North Beach. These trees perch on the bluff above Fort Worden.
This fellow was sailing off the beach by Fort Worden. I was intrigued by his odd sail and rigging. It looked like he was having a lot of fun.
