Some years these don't come up at all. These are our Gnome mushrooms - they look like they belong together.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Solar eclipse
The clouds moved on, and this is what we see inside the box. Not a stellar picture, but balancing the box, aiming it correctly, and manipulating the phone to take the picture was getting hilarious. You can see the "bite " the moon is taking, though. It is only a partial solar eclipse, but still not seen very often. We're glad we took the time.
Solar Eclipse- sort of
We prepared two boxes: pinhole on one side, white paper on the other inside end. (As in the picture) Went outside and saw the beginning of the eclipse- lower right side of the sun with a bite being taken. Then the clouds rolled in. The second picture is where the sun is - behind the clouds. At least we saw the beginning!
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Destruction Island
Destruction Island
from Kalaloch Campground
It almost looks like it's on fire, the sunset is so red this day.
The sunset silhouettes the island and shows the lighthouse at the south (left) end.
The rocks around the island, and between the island and the shore,
are what gave it its descriptive name.
Our World Tuesday is "Where family-friendly bloggers share images of their world and tell us a little bit of the story about the place."
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Kalaloch Campground
Olympic National Park
As the sun moves through the sky, so do the shadows amongst the trees.
Late in the day, the shadows from one stand of trees create stripes upon the ground and into the next stand of trees. The sun is behind us here.
It's so interesting to watch as different parts of the forest are revealed and shadowed as the day goes on. It's almost a different forest as each portion has its turn.
Our World Tuesday is "Where family-friendly bloggers share images of their
world and tell us a little bit of the story about the place."
Monday, June 25, 2012
The Cap Man Cometh!
The Cap Family.
All the way from Georgia, they have been traveling for almost a year now.
The story of the bottlecap en-rusted truck can be read on their website.
Notice the little car on the top, too?
This lovely family was a delight to meet.
They came to the Forks Open Aire Market on Saturday, June 23. They've been in the area for some days, enjoying the sights on the West End of the peninsula.
The original idea was for them to be able to sell their art that day, but
that didn't work out, unfortunately! We were looking forward to seeing
the Cap Family Wares!
You can read their story, and see their art on the following link.
(There's a link on their site to an etsy shop, but it was down when I clicked on it.)
Friday, January 20, 2012
Yesterday, we looked out the kitchen window,
... and saw this portion of the elk herd walking down J street. We raced to the front window, grabbing camera on the way, in time to see them hop the fence into the field, easy as you please. We often see them in the field, but - walking down J Street?
When we awoke Sunday...
...this is what we saw out the window. 10-12 inches by our measure at our house.
This was just the beginning. It started Saturday with a little dusting. We did some shoveling Sunday so we could get around the house.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
And the tree came tumbling down...
I've used this Chinese Coins tree as a frame for pictures, and as a subject in and of itself. The birds used it as a lookout, and as a refuge or resting place. It was glowing yellow in bloom, and sparkling when frosted.
The winds took it down last week.
It hadn't been healthy since a storm last year almost ripped a limb completely off;
and, we knew it was only a matter of time, even with our efforts to shore it up.
Still, it was sad to see it go.
Here, my husband has already been cutting the branches off, though you can still see the break.
We heard it go down, although we didn't know it at the time.
After hearing a crash one night during the howling of the storm, we went outside to see if there was damage. It was dark and still raining. What we could see didn't show damage to the house, the vehicles, so, we went back in. The next day, in daylight, we noticed.
Our view is lessened by its demise.
Now we are asking ourselves, "What should we put up in its place?"
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Quilting on the West End
There are quite a few quilters here on the West End, quite accomplished some of them. I know quite a few, and enjoy quilting myself - though I don't count myself as an expert.
I recently joined a group of blockmakers online at Block Lotto . This picture is of the block pattern for September - a Curved Rail Block in batiks. Simple stack and slash type of construction. It's a lot of fun making just a few blocks, testing a new pattern.
Monday, January 10, 2011
The Forecast is... what?
The forecast for today was for cold but partly sunny.Our Forks weather usually calls for "liquid sunshine",
but frozen sunshine?
Ah, the surprises and delights of Mother Nature in Forks.
These were taken at the beginning of the snow this morning.
It lasted all of today.
And will go on into tonight.
And tomorrow.
Maybe I'll make a snowman!
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