My Way Is The Highway

Japanese willow resplendent in fall colors, Kubota Garden, Seattle

I got a couple of good shots during my last visit to Kubota garden, but I was not satisfied. That day was overcast and I did not get to capture what I had started out for - fall colors backlit by the sun.

The next few days, Seattle was shrouded in a heavy cloak of fog and clouds. Not a ray of sunlight escaped the seize. I did my part. I kept the camera ready in the boot of my car just to take advantage of the vagaries of nature, if such a chance came my way.

Coming out of a meeting, I realized that the sky heavily overcast an hour ago had cleared and a soft sunset was on its way. I ran to my car and pointed it across the bridge to Kubota garden. As I reached the garden, the sun had already started dipping behind the tall fir trees and I rushed to the east most part of the garden.

There, just for under five minutes, a Japanese maple was bathed in the most glorious light. Now I am satisfied.

52 Must See Places of Northwest

Standing in the middle of a flower dotter meadow on the eastern foothill of Mt. Rainier, I felt like an idiot.  I have travelled to five continents and a dozen countries in search of photo opportunities, extreme landscapes, adventure and a quest to see the world; and here lie in my very backyard of the Northwest sights that I have overlooked.

I decided to makeup for a decade of folly within a year. For the next fifty two weekends that I am in the Northwest, I will find a place – new or retuning - and be there to enjoy splendid landscape.It has now been said, just remains to be done.Stay tuned.

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Update: Life intervened. 52 places in 52 weeks was hard to keep up. Making this Top 52 Northwest

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Mt. Rainier

Puyallup Fair

Historic Columbia River Highway

Langley, WA

Rattlesnake Ledge: The best hike on the eastside.

Shoot a Tiger at Woodland Park Zoo

Lake Quinault: The Southern Gateway to Olympic National Park

Rock Climbing the crags at Exit 38 on I90

 

Ashford on Dwellable

Discovery Park

23rd August 2008

 

We used (one of the last) sunny Saturday's in Seattle to hang around Discovery Park in Seattle. Relatively unknown, it has a clean beach and a quaint lighthouse.

I wish we had waited until sunset to get some better light for the photos. (What we got was not bad)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lot of seashells on the beach.

 

Carry an umbrella on a sunny day. There is very little shade on the beach.

 

Have fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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