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1y

☀️☁️ Clouds ☁️☀️

📍Lake Crescent, WA

#Reflection #Clouds #Lake #LakeCrescent #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #OlympicPeninsula #OlympicMountains #PNW

The eye is drawn to a convergence point on the horizon in the middle of this vertical landscape. Here the lake with a layer of low lying clouds like meets evergreen mountains sloping downwards on each side and v-shaped sky above. The sky meets the horizon in brilliant blue. A layer of high clouds drift above at the top of the landscape. To the left a boat house and launch are partially hidden by a line of leafless, white trunked birch. The lake in front of you reflects trees on the foothills, the v-shaped blue sky above and its clouds now seen floating at your feet! You can see a sunken tree branch near you below the lake’s surface. The spirit of the place is serenity and you find your breath drawing down deeply. The air is cool and delicious.

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2y

Sunrise from Olympic National Park, today. ✨🌲

#Forest #Lake #OlympicPeninsula #Mountains #Sunrise #Today #Coffee #AltText #Nemophilist #PNW #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #OffTheGrid

An unseen deck supports the bottom frame that moves up into shadowy shore and into a smooth lake. Sunrise over the steep and deeply evergreen forested mountains that begin just a half a mile away, reflects pinks, peach and orange into this first layer of the lake. There’s a pier and floating deck in the lighted lake, then darkly reflected mountains all covered in a thin layer of clouds at the base of the mountains. Blue sky is peaking through above the mountains to the right. Clouds casting the sunrise are to the right. The view is due south.

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2y

✨Bridges are portals.✨

📍Barnes Creek

#Bridge #Footbridge #Portal #Nature #NaturePhotography #Mosstodon #Tree #Creek #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #Bryophilia #Nemophilist #ALTtext #WordHoarder

I’m standing at the foot of a sturdy, wooden footbridge that crosses a swift creek. Today it’s surprisingly sunny, the day after many drizzly days. The winter rainforest I’m in is wet and sparkly. It’s cold but not freezing and the air has a clean bite from the Doug Fir.

There are leafless, deciduous “moss” trees on both sides of the bridge, some sprouting from the creek bank on my left where I’m standing and a few up ahead on the right bank all the way across the creek. Their trunks and branches are furry with dramatic moss carpets, lush, neon, dripping. #Kin moss loves the big leaf maples #kin is growing on.

The bridge stretches out before me, and it’s red, from the crushed autumn leaves off the maples and the wood, too, is a shade of red. I’m just not sure if it’s redwood.

I hear more than see the creek but it’s barely viewable from my peripheral vision on both sides as I look all the way across the bridge.

I see a guardian Doug fir trunk just past the maples, up on the left and a good trail disappearing in the evergreen forest ahead.

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2y

Meet the mighty Elwah River out on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s not just another pretty place but also the sight of the world’s largest dam removal project.

*Update March 2023: Work officially began on the Klamath River Restoration, now the world’s largest dam removal project.

#River #Elwah #Fluviophile #Forest #Tree #Mountain #OlympicMountains #Rewilding #Watershed #OlympicPeninsula #Landscape #Nature #Photography #Nemophilist #WordHoarder

A thin line of horizontal low clouds bisects this rich landscape. Above this line is a steep mountain covered in a verdantly green coniferous forest; a brilliant blue sky with white clouds fills the background. Below the thin line a river enters the photo mid frame flowing southeast off the landscape, its surface frothy in places with small rapids. Unexpectedly the river appears silver and a light shade of green. Its shores are lined with leafless birch, boulders and one large leafless big leaf maple tree on the left. There are a few rocky bars exposed in the river. The combination of leafless trees and autumn colored vegetation on the shores with evergreen trees on the mountain is intensely beautiful, evoking a desire to protect this living river, its inhabitants, its landscape.

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2y

If you have ever gone
to the woods with me,
I must love you very much.

—Mary Oliver

#Mosstodon #OlympicPeninsula #PNW #NationalPark #Nemophilist #ForestFriday #Poetry #ALTtext

A vertical landscape of mostly deciduous trees gathered in a circle-like grove are surrounded by an evergreen forest. It’s winter but the green in this rainforest is deep, penetrating. The bare branches and trunks are long, graceful and mossy. The forest floor is red with composting, autumn big leaf maple leaves. A blue sky peeks through the branches that stretch to the top of the landscape. Certainly these trees were dancing a tree reel only moments before I arrived.

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