My regular readers will know that one of our favorite day trips from our home in Everett, Washington is the drive up to North Cascades National Park Diablo Lake Overlook. The highway (Washington 20) mostly parallels the Skagit River, which is the primary source of hydroelectric power for the Seattle area. On this trip, our …
Continue reading Some beauty-North Cascades-Skagit and Diablo Lake
Hello, everyone. This week's challenge is going to be great fun for me, as I am always in the habit of looking both up and down for good photos. It's amazing what you can spot, if you look down around your knees. We have been some places recently that had beautiful flower containers on the …
About two hours northeast of our home in Everett, Washington, is the North Cascades National Park. The last town before the park is the "company town" of Newhalem, which is basically owned by Seattle City Light. Seattle gets a large portion of its electric power from the dams on the Skagit River, within the National …
Continue reading Favorite Destination-the beauty of the North Cascades
We live just south of the North Cascades National Park, so we take day trips up there a few times a year. The highway through the park is closed all winter, due to the high elevation, heavy snowfall, and less need (there are two other cross-state highways for big trucks to use). The road just …
I like to call it "Zoom-in-Zoom Out". Instead of taking one photo and cropping out the extraneous features, I find a subject and zoom closer in on it, to see the finer and many times more interesting features that might be missed in the wider view. I took these one day at our favorite day …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96-Crop the Shot
Thanks to Tina Schell for passing along this challenge. Since the majority of us are "sheltering in place" and not traveling, we pretty much have to post photos of places we've already visited. One of our favorite places is the Diablo Lake Overlook, on the North Cascades Highway, east of Newhalem, Washington. Hubby and I …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #92-Second Time Around (or more)
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