Beaver Valley Farmland

The corner of Hwy 19 and Egg and I Road is a picturesque place. In the evening light, shadows creep across the fields and the evergreens stand dark in the distance. I’ve been trying to figure out how to take an interesting shot of this area for over a year. I finally realized that a panorama would work.

Cows eating in Beaver Valley

I believe these cows belong to the Bishop Dairy. They can often be seen grazing in the fields near the corner of Beaver Valley and Egg and I roads. The dairy sells milk to Organic Dairy.

The odd colors and texture come from my having too much time to play around with Photoshop, adding texture and gradient layers. As I recover from my foot surgery, I should be able to spend more time photographing and less on post processing.

Wild Birds Unlimited in Gardiner

While I’m focused on backyard birds, I might as well post a photo of the store where we get our feeders and much of our bird food. Come to think of it, our binoculars came from there too. The Wild Birds Unlimited store is on US 101, in Gardiner, WA. That’s between 15 and 20 miles from here and just west of Discovery Bay. The owners are super helpful and have fun stuff to sell.

Lower Chimacum Creek at low tide

There is only one stream on the upper Quimper Peninsula that runs year round, Chimacum Creek. It is used by chum salmon for spawning and has seen quite a bit of habitat restoration. Here it flows through a tidal flat where it meets Port Townsend Bay in Irondale.

This area used to be a storage dump for logging operations. Now it is a county park.

East Jefferson Fire and Rescue Station

Station 4 of the East Jefferson Fire and Rescue Department sits on the corner of Cape George Road and Ridge Drive, on the Edge of the Cape George Village and Highlands. Before the county went to all mail in ballots, it’s where I went to vote.

Jefferson County Recycling Center

If you have a lot of recycling, this is where you take it. Yes, we do have curbside pickup in Port Townsend, but in the county that luxury entails hiring a private service, and they won’t pick up the whole pickup full of cardboard I just dumped off.

Moving requires lots of boxes, which I’ve been collecting for over a month. As I finish with a load of stuff, I then have to get rid of the boxes.

BTW, it’s quite fun doing this in the current weather. Yesterday, when I took this had a similar forecast to today:

Morning fog forms a rainbow over Beaver Valley

Beaver Valley, about 15 miles south of Port Townsend gets a lot of fog. Fortunately, it is seldom thick enough to make driving difficult. The mix of farms and fog generally makes the valley interesting and sometimes beautiful.