Spring in the Pacific Northwest is notorious for sunny, cloudless skies and drizzly, gray skies. Often within just a few hours, or less, of each-other. Yesterday was like that, sunny in the morning and showers in the afternoon. These two photos are of the same Iris, first one taken in the morning, the second in […]
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Category: Scenic
Dosewallip Dance
Dosewallips River Valley Hike
A spring day hike along one of my favorite rivers. The water of the Dosewallips, like many of Washington’s rivers, comes from glaciers, giving the water a translucent turquoise color. Wildflowers, like this columbine and false soloman seal, lined the trail. Larry above the Dosewallips. Thanks for reading
Cooper’s hawk in our pond
Cooper’s hawks have been nesting in our tiny forest for many years. It’s a pretty nice set-up for them, large conifers for nesting, pond for water and plenty of small rodents and birds (I don’t like witnessing the hunting part but it’s part of nature). When they visit our pond I try to grab my […]
Northern Pygmy Owl
I rarely see these small and unobtrusive owls and when I do they’re generally sweeping in to pick off a small songbird in our yard. Sometimes they win, sometimes the songbird wins. On this particular occasion I was alerted by quite a commotion of Stellar’s Jays circling a tree. I grabbed the binoculars for a […]
American Pika
A new painting for me, so I thought I’d show it off here on my blog. I spotted this American pika while hiking on Mount Rainier last summer, and the memory stuck. Pika and marmots are two of my favorite cute, higher-elevation critters. Although it looks similar to a mouse, they’re much bigger and […]