Tulips as tradition

Tulip festival in Skagit Valley is my annual tradition now. This year full blooming was in March. This time everything from garden and fields of RoozenGaarde. Story about tulip farms and photos of last years here : 2012, . . . → Continue reading Tulips as tradition

Giraffes

Big giraffe company lives in San Diego zoo. More portraits:

Appples

If you drive from eastern part of Washington to western one you would see a sign that carrying of apple maggots is prohibited. It always remand me that apple gardens of eastern Washington not only nicely bloom, but also produce a lot of food for maggots. . . . → Continue reading Appples

Pumpkins!

Orange colors from October for grey winter day.

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North Coast Trail — Day two

Beginning: North Coast Trail – road and first day

Morning of the second day didn’t bring any changes into wildlife viewing in the Skinner Creek estuary. But the amount of traces significantly increased.

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North Coast Trail – road and first day

This is story about our travel on the North Coast of Vancouver Island last summer. North of the Island is always fascinating me, and after my short visit to Cape Scott Park the desire to walk along the North Shore became unendurable. And finally in . . . → Continue reading North Coast Trail – road and first day

Olympic marmots

There are three marmot species in Washington state: yellow-belled, hoary and Olympic. First two I saw many times in different places, but the Olympic marmot was elusive for me, even everybody who visited Hurricane ridge met them. Actually it is the place to meet them. . . . → Continue reading Olympic marmots

Mt Rainier, August 2013

Climbing permit to Mt Rainier works for calendar year. If you spend money for something, you usually want to get maximum. So, although we climbed Mt Rainier in July, we decided to do it another time in August. Well, it was joke, at least partly. . . . → Continue reading Mt Rainier, August 2013

Marvelous

Then I climbed Mt Rainier in July 2013 I saw marvelous thing on the summit. Mt Rainier is huge volcano (4392 meter), covered by thick glacier. It is cold and windy on the top. We climbed to crater and rested, when saw that the woman . . . → Continue reading Marvelous

Mt Rainier, July 2013

First time I reached top of Mt Rainier in 2011, but success should be nailed down, so in July 2013 I repeated the climbing by same rout, but in other company.

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