Olympic Mountains
Yesterday I introduced the beginning of a series of shots taken on our weekend jaunt on the north side of the Olympic Peninsula. Today is another shot of the Olympic Mountains. This one is taken to the south and from quite close to the visitor centre, so even if you have limited mobility you can still catch this view, so long as it is a nice day.
Olympic Anniversary
The Olympic Mountains are visible from many parts of Victoria and show up in the backgrounds of many of my photographs. In the past they been a more immediate part of my surroundings. Thirty years ago, and more, I worked in the area for three summers and much of one winter. A few years later we had our honeymoon on the Olympic Peninsula.
On the weekend we had our 28th wedding anniversary. As it happened my partner was flying into Seattle on her way home from a trip to Finland. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to return to some areas we had not been to together since the honeymoon. And thus, I took the ferry over to Port Angeles and then drove off to SeaTac airport for the pick up, and back to a B&B in Port Townsend. We had stayed in a Bed and Breakfast on our honeymoon, in Port Townsend which is a charming and quite funky tourist town, so it seemed a good thing to do again. The next day, after poking around Port Townsend for a few hours, we headed up to the Olympic Mountains for a walk, and then caught the last ferry home in the evening.
Swift Street
A follow-up on my Lower Pandora post, when I was on the way to the bar from parking, just as the sun was setting. Anyone that knows this town, will now know where I was heading since Swift Street is one very short block. It has the Cool Aid homeless shelter at one end (where my daughter used to work), and the Canoe Brew Pub at the other (where my son often plays music). I have never stayed at the shelter, but I am occasionally found in this pub which has excellent beer brewed on the premises, and good live music on Thursday and Friday evenings.
Cosmic Web
A couple of days ago I showed very small parts of a spider web in all it’s cosmic wonderfulness in Iris Cosmos. Ken (Oneowner) suggested there was more to be done, and he was right.
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Lower Pandora
A couple of weeks ago I went out in the evening to a bar to listen to a band that my son plays in. Parking in that part of town, on a Friday evening, can be pretty tricky so I took the first spot I saw a couple of blocks away. I had my camera with me, and the sun was setting, so I snapped a few shots on the way – the light was nice.
Iris Cosmos
I have noted once or twice during my iris bugs macro series that spider webs keep on showing up in my shots, without me seeing them till I load the shots onto the camera. This spider web, also found on the irises, was one that I saw and photographed on purpose while it glowed in the morning light. It was a very fine and quite small web, I am imagining the product of a very small spider. I could not find the spider anywhere near the web, but that probably means it was too small and well concealed.
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