Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
The Olympic Mountains got the first noticeable snow of the season overnight on Friday night. As the clouds cleared through the day on Saturday, snow patches were revealed.
(If this view looks familiar it’s because it’s one of my favorites, also shown in the Sequim Daily Photo header, above.)
I like the look of snow in our mountains but I can’t say I’m excited at the prospect of winter’s short days.
This photo is unintentional. It’s actually two photos that merged and came out of the camera like this. So did several others.
This is a sad chapter in a saga. The camera had spent a day in DH’s backpack, nestled next to a water bottle that leaked…steadily…all day. By the time the debacle was discovered there was a tidal flow of water inside the top control panel and in all sorts of other sensitive places.
Thank goodness: I’d purchased a “drops and spills” policy when I bought the camera. I made a claim and sent the camera for repairs. When it came back recently I thought I’d reprogrammed the basics. I need to pull out the manual again. I may have missed some steps. Or the poor camera may have been fried beyond redemption.
I prefer to avoid politics here but this seemed too timely to ignore.
I can’t take credit for the sweet peas growing in my garden. A few hearty plants are blossoming despite our wet September.
We were traveling this past May during the peak time for getting a garden going. Days count when there’s a short growing season and my bean plant is just coming into its own these days, on the cusp of season ending nighttime frost.
It’s bad enough to fight the calendar. Now throw in some pest that is methodically stripping the plant of all the leaves it can get its nasty little biting parts on.
Don’t let the beans in this shot fool you. The little varmints have gotten most of them, too. And I won’t bore you with my sorry squash tales. This year’s garden has been a bust.
I mostly took it for granted that the geese flying through our skies were Canada geese since they’re so common here. But while I was taking photos another photographer showed me a snow goose he’d caught nearby in one of his shots.
And he also had noticed these Greater White Fronted Geese on their way to California for the winter. Cooperative photographers sometimes share the best sightings.
I got a new hat. It’s sad to me that this is a political statement.