My Everyday Photos

Yesterday the girls and I joined with Molly (remember Molly from last year?) and Mary for a nice hike, mostly above tree line in the North Cascades. We drove through a layer of wildfire smoke to get to the trailhead and found perfect blue skies with fluffy clouds. Ground squirrels and hoary marmots and pikas gave their warning calls as we walked by.  At the end of the hike we could see the smoke column from the Diamond Creek wildfire east of us. In the meantime we were treated to vast vistas of mountains in all directions. We all felt grateful to have this in our ‘backyard’. The dogs were most grateful for the last of the snow and a creek of snow melt leading to a clear refreshing pond for cooling off.

A few wildflowers still blooming

a pika haystack

Views and more views

Cool rocks

Sky tells Molly to stand still

Do it this way Molly

Molly remains defiant

Look! All five of us looking at the camera! Ok. So Luna wasn’t exactly looking at the camera, but almost.

Molly leads the way

We were over there!

Tatie Peak

Wildfire smoke to the left of center on the horizon