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Fall to Winter and Back Again

November 11, 2013 – 4:20 pm
Posted in Aspen Lake
Tagged Aspen Lake, Barrows Goldeneye, dogs, fall photos, hike, puppy, snow flakes
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Saturday afternoon Ken and I and two of our friends and a total of six dogs went for a quick afternoon jaunt to Aspen Lake. The morning sunshine was replaced with leaden clouds that made it seem colder. And sure enough, it was snowing when we got to the lake. My new camera was confused by that and instead of focusing on a distant duck, it focused on the snowflakes. It made for an interesting effect.

Aspen Lake

An interesting painterly effect, if not exactly what I was looking for

The obligatory puppy photo

Subtle fall colors with a touch of snow

Through the aspens

Lindsey helps one of her old dogs over a log

Healthy sagebrush seed crop this year

Barrow’s Goldeneyes

That old tree looks like something out of a story

Overlooking Moccasin Lake on the way down

Back to the Mountains

July 14, 2013 – 9:35 pm
Posted in hike
Tagged dogs, hike, Pacific Crest Trail, photography, wildflowers
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Life has kept me busy here at home with lots of work in June followed by visitors for ten days. While I am grateful for lots of work and happy to have our visitors from far away, I missed getting out in the mountains in the early summer when the snow first began to retreat leaving wildflowers in its wake. Yesterday I got up to Harts Pass and hiked on part of the Pacific Crest Trail and enjoyed vast views and flowers and a few remaining snow patches. Luna and I were joined by her pal Wyatt Ann, my friend Lindsey and her three dogs – Moose, Mavi and Little Bear. We were a pack. The weather was perfect – not too hot and we had a lovely day in the mountains again.

Fabulous rocks with wonderful lichen patterns

Slate Peak lookout in the distance

Buttercups

I think this is a Veronica or Speedwell

A succulent sedum

Polemonium sp?

Such a beautiful shade of blue

One of the many penstemons

Lewisia Columbiana

Great patches of the Lewisia

Contrasted with burned trees on the far hillside

Castilleja or paintbrush

The creeks in this valley are already drying up.

Little Bear is both playful and independent

Wyatt Ann is a deep thinker

Cairns don’t always point out the way

Mavi is happy for the snow to cool his belly

Wyatt Ann is wondering where do we go next?

Phlox

Dead trees tell stories

Rocks are maps

What stories do you see?

Anemone

A waterleaf

Crossing the big talus slope where the pikas and hoary marmots live. Little Bear is leading the way. Behind Lindsey are Mavi, Luna, Moose and Wyatt Ann who has come back to check on me. Normally Moose and I lagged far behind.

An old log with character

Golden Retrievers

May 20, 2013 – 12:45 pm
Posted in dogs
Tagged dogs, golden retriever, Methow, photos
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Our part-time neighbors have a beautiful pair of golden retrievers. Yesterday, after a long weekend of fun with their family and friends they come up to visit while Ken worked with his bees. The dogs are beautiful and real sweethearts. Sadie is the mom and Oggie (the doggie) is her pup. I could not resist making a few images of them.

More Hiking with Dogs

May 8, 2013 – 5:58 pm
Posted in hike
Tagged dogs, hike, Patterson Mountain, Winthrop photography
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Luna and I missed our hike last week and so we were happy to get out today with friends and dogs. Starting early at the Patterson Mountain trailhead we joined two other women and four other dogs for a very pleasant hike before it got too hot. The weather has been unseasonably warm (not that we are complaining mind you) these last few days – up into the high eighties, so it was good to start at 7:30 am and enjoy the morning air and beautiful light. Only one other party started up before us. After the trouble I’ve had with Luna recently I put her on the leash and kept her there all the way up and down, only letting her off when we came to a little creek where she could wet her whistle and at the top of the mountain. She was very well behaved and even when I let her off she returned when called. I was much relieved. Of course the other dogs were fine. Well Cassidy had some barking issues but he and Kathryn worked through them and he was fine. We were rewarded with fine mountain and valley views at the top, wonderful wildflowers and at the end, the dogs got to cool off in the lake. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Patterson Lake and Mount Gardner

Luna stops to smell the flowers

This sign always seems out of place to me

It’s really hard to get three people and five dogs in a photo all looking at the camera at the same time.

Really, really hard

Little Bear doesn’t like crowds so he is hanging out behind the bitterbrush

Luna likes to be in the middle of everything

Cassidy always has something to say. He is very opinionated and frustrated when we don’t understand him.

There’s Little Bear. He’s a sweet fella

Dexter and his person Amy and their friend Peter made the hike this morning too but they had to race off to get to work on time.

Pretty death camas

How pretty is that?

We love our big ponderosa pines

And our balsamroot

My first bitterroot flowers this year!

With wild onions growing in the background

Moose really relaxed in the cold water

And Luna was ready to play

Another Hike with Dogs

April 25, 2013 – 4:02 pm
Posted in hike
Tagged dogs, hike, Lewis Butte, lupine, wildflowers, Winthrop photography
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Yesterday four women and five dogs set out for Lewis Butte, a popular spring trail near Winthrop. It’s on a south facing slope so the snow melts fast and the wildflowers come early and may not stay long in a dry year. All the dogs, except mine were on best behavior. Well, maybe Trip was ready to help Luna in her quest to scare every bird on the butte. Other than that, it was a good day, topped off with lunch at the Rocking Horse Bakery.

On the way up we were passed by two other women with four dogs! Here are two of their dogs and four of ours