Beautiful Lake Chelan

1500' deep in this location.
A jewel that was home to natives, until settlers wanted it for themselves.
The natives were banished to the Coleville reservation.

Now wineries dot the landscape. The National Park service keeps this unincorporated city busy with National Park facilities.

Fly or boat in, horseback ride or hike. Your only options to visit Stehekin.

A little bamboo

Precious fresh water flowing in Western Washington

The White River
At MT Rainier

The Nooksack River
The Mad River in Entiat WA

And Lake Chelan in Central Washington

Textiles from the Silk Road and Japan

From Lummi Island

Lummi island is an isle in the Archipelago of the Salish Sea.

I have friends here and often stay on the island.

My daughter was here and we stayed on the island awhile, the weather was stunning.

We enjoyed lunch and vino at the cafe on the porch and watched sailboats sail by.

I'm going to take sailing lessons again. It's been since I was a kid.

Near home and on Lummi Island

Longmire at MT Rainier

Some scenery of MT Rainier today.

1.Christine Falls, making a rainbow. A pretty stop to make.

2. The porch at Longmire
3. Rainier from the porch.
4. Beargrass has taken to blooming.
5. A deer eats shrubbery at Paradise.

Beautiful weather.
Well maybe a bit too hot.
The mountain has gotten crowded.
You may want to wait.
Come back in the fall.

Still out cavorting around mountain meadows, running along logs and enjoying mountain air...

MT Rainier

It's a clear day at the mountain.
Saw 3 bears...
From a safe distance, like, bearly!^^
Mom and Cubs.
Black bear.

Common here.

So it's another sunny temperate day in the PNW, unusually sunny this year.

The mountain is beautiful too and some of the flowers are blooming. Bear Grass for instance. A few others.

Nice room at Paradise.
The lodge.

This was taken from Enumclaw.

Flowers and petals

A pink dogwood from

The Arbor Foundation. 

Started out a thin stick and now it's a bigger stick. 

The flowers are so vulnerable looking atop that tiny trunk. 

Happy Easter

Hoping you all dye eggs. 

It's fun and an ongoing tradition. 

Color is a spring tradition. 

The earth inspires... In spring. 

Calligraphy= death

Calligraphy= life

A flower from a wooded walk today...