The power company had a scheduled power outage yesterday. It was a good excuse to go for a long walk in the woods with the dogs.
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Is better than any day spent at the computer.
My life revolves too much around a computer, that’s for sure. Any opportunity I have, I try to get away from it and yesterday was a good day for it. The weather was sunny and pretty warm for September. The fall colors are well underway. The girls and I went to Harts Pass where we enjoyed a good hike in the fresh air and changing colors of the sub-alpine larch trees and small, ground-hugging plants of the high country. We were watched over by numerous migrating raptors. We also walked through the silver forest that burned in 2003. Few of the snags have fallen to the ground and there are even few new trees to take their places. Most of the growth is in grasses and forbs and small willows.
It was a good day.
There was a group of friendly pack horses and mules
We hiked here
Anemone seed heads linger from early summer
Prairie Falcon
Stunning colors
I’m almost certain this is a Red-tailed Hawk
Sky found a wildlife camera and may have made some selfies!
See the attractant on the tree in the middle?
These little brushes should capture hair from the target animal. Not a labrador, that’s for sure.
A short ways to the ridge
Nice looking dog
Awwww! Snow!
Look! I found a stick!
American Pipit
There was a flock of these American Pipits foraging on the snow
This tiny succulent plant was growing right at the edge of the snow field
Looking towards the Methow Valley
Looking north up the Pasayten river valley towards Canada
Looking west, Snowfield Mountain on the left and Mount Baker 2nd from the right
The Pacific Crest Trail
Buckwheat
Colors in the silver forest
Our friends just got a new puppy and we couldn’t be happier for them! They have waited more than two years since their old dog passed away and now is the right time for them and this is the right puppy. Red Molly is a red pointing labrador from Morgan’s Point Ranch. Don brought her home last weekend and she came up to visit us on Sunday. She was just seven weeks old! So little and everything is new to her after leaving her siblings and friends from her first home.
Sky is very skeptical about the puppy and Luna just thought it was best to ignore her in hopes she’d go away! We keep telling Sky this is her comeuppance from all she did to Luna when she was a puppy. We have no doubt that Sky and Molly will be good friends in the years to come. For now, Sky just needs to learn patience with the little one. It won’t take long.
Luna is pretending not to notice Molly.
This is when Sky had to tell Molly ‘Enough is enough already.’
And then they both took a little time out.
Don’t you wish you could sleep like that?
Luna and Sky love water and they love the beach. We never did fully tire them out despite throwing sticks over and over and over again. Sky would still be at it if we could keep up with her. Luna took breaks to smell stuff.
According to wickipedia, Admiralty Inlet was considered so strategic to the defense of Puget Sound in the 1890s that three forts, Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island, and Fort Worden at Port Townsend, were built at the entrance with huge guns creating a “triangle of fire.” This military strategy was built on the theory that the three fortresses would thwart any invasion attempt by sea.
Apparently that strategy worked.
Fort Casey is now a state park offering camping, day use and a chance to explore the ruins of the old fort. I spent a couple of hours in dark, water-stained concrete catacombs, going up and down stairs and wondering if I’d find a way out of dark passageways in search of interesting abstract images.
I think the colors are surprisingly vivid and bright for such a stark concrete and metal structure.
Outside
Water stains
Painted over graffiti
Hooks
Window light
Rusted door
Lots of hooks
Spider webs
Electrical panel
Looking up an elevator shaft
Outside
Up
Down
Shadow
My Everyday Photos 