Hurricane Ridge is located in the Olympic National Park. It’s a 16 mile drive from Port Angeles and over 5,200 feet in elevation. From the end of the road a trail runs almost a mile and 900 feet higher to the top of Hurricane Hill. This view looks eastward from the ridge toward the Buckhorn [...]
Sunday morning dawned rainy, windy and cold. Mid-afternoon the clouds blew out and the day turned lovely. Near sunset some clouds looked like they would move towards the western horizon, so I went down to North Beach to try for a sunset photo. As you can see, I was not the only one there hoping [...]
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.
As we move towards spring, Port Townsend is already greening, or at least the grass and ground weeds. Kah Tai Lagoon Park demonstrates that in a more pleasing photo than would the grass at home I’ll need to cut soon.
Blue skies finally put in an appearance in Tuesday. As you can see the same hillside view point that gives us rainbows can also offer up some lovely sunsets. While we don’t get to see a lot to the west, the northern view out towards Whidbey Island and the San Juan’s isn’t that shabby.
River Park in Sequim hosts some lovely cottonwood trees along the Dungeness River.
I love the patterns of light and shade that the puffy clouds scatter across the landscape on a partly overcast and windy day.
