Panorama of unnamed lake

West of Port Townsend, across the road from Discover Bay Golf Course sits this unofficial lake. Every once in a while the lake evaporates and the land becomes cow pasture. That hasn’t happened in quite a while.

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Olympic Mountains across Discovery Bay

I have some sparkly snow photos, but the truth is that Port Townsend winters are generally mild, gray, windy and wet. Snow does fall in the Olympic Mountains, which you can see from town.

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Falling into the reflection

Big Dave requested maple leaves in water. I’ve shot quite a few photos of watery leaves, but there’s little fresh water near maple trees around Port Townsend. This picture was shot at Savage Plants nursery near Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula. Google Maps tells me that it’s only 12 miles away, though it takes almost 45 miles to get there by road.

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Starry, starry night

As a break from fall color photos, here’s a shot of the milky way. Since low tide shifts to night time in the fall and winter, this was taken around 11:00 pm from the beach. I walked about a mile west from North Beach to get as far away from lights as one can around Port Townsend.

Happy Halloween.

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Morning reflections on Kah Tai Lagoon

Friday morning broke clear, calm, and crisp. We had our first light frost in Port Townsend. I was down at Kah Tai Nature Park for daybreak and the reflections of autumn gold on the lagoon.

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That last shot was truly inspired!

Catching the last day of a beautiful indian summer, these golfers got out early on the Port Townsend Golf Club to play through a rolling mist.

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Downed tree in Kah Tai Lagoon

I sat the patterns that this dead tree and its reflections made in the water the water of Kah Tai Lagoon and just had to make a photo.

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