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Two Choices

Other than that, the future looks bright. #skagway #stampeder #1898

The White Pass and Yukon Train chugged up the Skagway River valley through dense forests below towering peaks littered with blue and white hanging glaciers. Openings appeared along way revealing magnificent cascading falls, and even a wandering bear. Eventually the railway crossed a great curving trestle bridge to double back and rise farther up theContinue reading “Summit Lake”

End of Endicott

The rising sun hardly cut the morning chill in the deep valley where ice meets the sea. Great masses of deep blue ice occasionally crashed downward into the sea shooting columns of spray upward with a thunderous roar that echoed through the canyon. Waves rippled the waters with a warning that though we might beContinue reading “End of Endicott”

Creek Street

Incoming tides turned a babbling creek into a seemingly placid pond along Creek Street in Ketchikan. Salmon schooled in the deepening waters, no longer struggling over cascades to get upstream to spawn. At times, however, the tranquility was interrupted as waters roiled and splashed with panicked salmon as they fled a harbor seal seeking anContinue reading “Creek Street”

North to Alaska

The sun set as we cruised through the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. We passed through waters we had cruised in the Fairy Boat in the previous millennium and resurrected ghosts of memories of the places we had visited. Now we’re leaving that behind en routeContinue reading “North to Alaska”

Near Rainier

Clear weather greeted our flight into Seattle and yielded this view of Mount Rainier. This magnificent volcanic mount has been rising for hundreds of thousands of years with countless eruptions in the past. Now quiescent, this silent sentinel will certainly erupt again and tens of thousands of people reside in its danger zone. It isContinue reading “Near Rainier”

Stellar Veil

Thanks to electronic magic, it was possible to get this image which was about a three-second exposure. Actually, it was many exposures taken over three seconds, stablized and stacked together automatically by the cell phone. Auriga, the charioteer, is partly veiled by the cloud in the center of the image and an upside down “V”Continue reading “Stellar Veil”

Let Sleeping Bugs Lie

The cicada at rest on the sidewalk recently brought back humourous memories of one a few years ago that buzzed up off the ground right into the leg of our grandson who performed an amusing dance step to escape his arthropod assailant. Lesson learned, we left this one alone. Lesson forgotten; a short time laterContinue reading “Let Sleeping Bugs Lie”

Pileated Flight

A slight red spot on the upper left photo shows the head of the woodpecker on a tree branch just before taking to flight as seen in the rest of the images. It was another happy morning surprise. #pileatedwoodpecker

Beating the Heat

Though it is hot and humid outside, the hibiscus just keep on blooming as long as they have plenty of water. As hardy as they are beautiful, they provide a pleasant delight to brighten the final days of summer. #hibiscus #summer #heat #humidity