Last weekend I had a wedding to photograph at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center on Diablo Lake. It’s a beautiful location and a terrific venue for a wedding. There are rooms for guests to stay and wonderful food – much of it locally sourced. Diablo Lake is just over the crest of the North Cascades via Highway 20. It is one of three dammed reservoirs on the Skagit River and its color is a wonderful turquoise from the glacial runoff of the high mountains. To get to the learning center, you have to cross Diablo Dam, an old structure, quite unlike the dams of the Columbia River. Sunday morning we had a nice hike to Sourdough Falls before returning home.
Dams were built prettier in those days.
Looking straight down
Can you imagine what the Skagit River was like before the dams?
I hate to see dogs lumped in with guns and smoking.
Sweet looking berry growing by the trail
my new friend
Rock stairs near the end of the trail
Shadows on wet rocks
A spent mayfly
Tiny little garden tucked into the rocks
Sourdough Falls
Big growth rings
My Everyday Photos 