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Summer Fun at the Lakes

Summer is fleeting and soon it will be fall. Got to remember the warm days at the lakes.

Despite annual herbicide application, the milfoil continues to spread.
They should probably give up the herbicide.
Rainbow trout
On the lookout for more.
Common Loon, probably in its second year.
The water at Blue Lake is icy cold.
Luna
Sky
Finn
Sky
Lindsey
Luna
Sky
Sky

Snow Days

Lately we have had lots of nice snow days, interspersed with bluebird skies and cold temperatures. Perfect winter weather. Today I took the girls out for their own private photo shoot in a snowstorm on a frozen lake. I think they thought it was not such a good idea and we did not stay out too long. It was pretty. I like the unfocused snowflakes and the unfocused dogs.

Walking the Dogs

Another day in the woods with my dogs.

The lake level is way down so we could walk on the beach for quite a ways
Someone else walked ahead of us
I almost bonked my head on this wasp nest
Maybe a kingfisher?
elderberries

October Scenes

November 1. How did that happen? October has been very colorful and also very wet. I’ve heard rumours that we have broken records for the amount of rainfall. In the mountains where we hiked earlier in the month, the trails are covered with a foot or more of snow. I’m glad we got out when we did. Here in the valley we should be able to hike in the hills for another month or more.

Patterson Lake
It was hunting season so the dogs wore colorful vests and stayed close.
The view from our house.
Balsamroot leaf
yarrow
bunchgrass
Mosses and lichens enjoy the wet weather
I told this two point buck that he’d better learn to not stand like that in front of a person. Next year he will be a legal deer.
The Sawtooth Mountains separate our valley from Lake Chelan
After rain, we often have a foggy morning
That view
Erosion above Campbell Lake
Lots of elderberries remain on some bushes. These bushes burned to the ground two years ago so this is a remarkable comeback
Douglas sunflowers normally bloom in June.

Walking the Dogs

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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