warmer

The transition from season to season is often a blur. Nature has pleasant ways of showing us that we're turning the corner. Garden gnome or Morel?

happy new year

January 1st marks the new year, but people are generally pretty settled in a routine around that time. Since grade school we've become accustomed to new beginnings in the fall; a change from summertime chaos to order and pattern. Here's a collection of stray images from the end of spring through early autumn, that period of chaos that precedes settling in for the winter.

Lake Wenatchee. Cascades holding off a front.

A mushroom in the pan is worth two in the car seat.

The simple joy of the last day of school.

Learning how to mill lumber in the backcountry.

Summer days at the pool, when there's still daylight after they close.

Blading is cooler than it was when you were a kid.

Moving all my stuff from here to there.

Digging up old dashboards.

Injuries are not as cool as when you were a kid.

Living and working from here all week.

Finding sweet hidden beach shack palaces.

Mobile shacks and wood shacks.

That landscape shot at the end.

spring

The light seems to change when winter ends.

Cape Flattery

Warrenton Cannery Road

US 101

Barnes Point

deer lake

Took a tour trip up the Sol Duc in April. Snow shoes definitely work better over the bumpy terrain. Found a sweet little steep zone next to Deer Lake to get some turns in.

Winter wonderland in the parking lot.

Big trees and little bridges.

Sol Duc Falls.

Low country snowfield means snow in the boots.

Heather switching to skis and skins.

The trail is cozy. The trees are talking to us.

The trail becomes the ditch.

Deer Lake.

High country. Basalt ridges, old trees and snow. Drop in on that.