Buoys brighten up the offerings in a marine hardware store in Annacortes. They look a little like oversized Christmas ornaments.
Category: Beyond the Olympic Peninsula
Siltcoos Lagoon
We hiked along the edge of this beautiful lagoon a while back when we visited the Oregon coast. The dark water was like a mirror. Click here for reflections from other bloggers.
Fern heaven
Walking in a rain forest is a little like wandering into a huge tossed salad. Ferns get very, very happy. This is a trail near Cape Perpetua in Oregon.
Road warriors
First the leopard spots caught my eye. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a motorcycle quite like this one.
Then I noticed that it and the other cycles with it had Mexican license plates. And some pretty interesting travel stickers. Grand Teton! Yellowstone! Glacier National Park! These scooters put on a lot of miles! All the more surprising because they were clean. A lot cleaner than my car.
Then I saw the Alaska stickers. I was seriously impressed. I finally noticed a sticker for Rodano Mexico, a television program that features motorcycles. I saw these bikes in Oregon and there wasn’t anyone around to ask questions. Darn.
Heceta Head Lighthouse, Oregon
In last Thursday’s post it was impossible to see the Heceta Head Lighthouse from the beach below. As we drive south on the coast it came into view. Here’s a black and white shot. It was raining at the lighthouse as I took it.
Here’s a longer view of the coast near the lighthouse, a rugged landscape typical of the northern Pacific Coast. This area gets over 70 inches of rain a year, so it was no surprise that hats and rain hoods were necessary.
More yarn bombing
In Florence, Oregon last month we drove past the public library and spied some yarn bomb whimsy of the Oregon variety.
I couldn’t let it go unphotographed.
The Oregon coast
Our first couple of days at the central Oregon coast last month felt a lot like home. That is, it rained. And then it cleared. And then it rained some more. Some of the more striking views we had were through the veil of rain squalls. Not the best for photographs. This is the beach below Heceta Head lighthouse. The lighthouse is hidden behind trees to the left of the keeper’s house on the hillside. I’ll post shots of the lighthouse in the next few days.
Here’s the coast between squalls. Well, it was dry where I was standing.