June 22, 2014
After leaving a beautiful wedding in warm Eugene, Oregon, we were surprised to find snow surrounding Crater Lake. (Click on the above panorama to expand it.)
Wood Priestess of the snowy mountain...
I love snow and it's been too long.
Fun in the snow!
Luckily, the wedding favors included crocheted hats.
Above photo of Arianna Helen and below photo of us were both taken by Rick Roller.
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June 14, 2014
Daily Bird Pottery is a friend's parents' pottery business, where she also works doing the business side of things. They have a beautiful storefront and studio on downtown Water Street.
Western Tent Caterpillars were all over the region.
We happened to be in Port Townsend on the day of the Rhododendron Parade.
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June 10, 2014
View of Mt St Helens (above) and Mt Hood (below) from Powell Butte Nature Park, Portland, Oregon.
In the above photo, Mt St Helens is the tiny white lump on the bottom left, Mt Hood is the little white mound on the bottom right. (Click on above panorama to expand.)
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June 3, 2014
We stopped near Lake Quinault for a short walk to see the "World's Largest Spruce Tree" in the rainforest village. On the path was this fallen, mossy, decaying tree that looked like a dragon.
Salmon berry flower and fruit.
Above; the world's largest spruce tree. A 1000 year old Sitka Spruce, it's 191" tall and 58'-11" in diameter!
Below; in wet regions, sitka spruce trees more successfully germinate and grow atop a fallen tree than on the forest floor. They send roots down around the rotting log and as the dead wood of the nurse log decomposes, the roots become more apparent like long legs for the living tree with the bole of the tree suspended in mid air.
Falls Creek waterfall before it feeds into Lake Quinault.
Above; our one little stop at the Pacific ocean side of the Olympic Peninsula.
Below; one of the many tall spruce trees in the Hoh rainforest.
The trees in the Hoh rainforest become buried in moss, sometimes adding more weight to the tree than the tree itself and breaking off limbs from the weight.
Sitka spruce trees in a "colonnade" after the nurse log has rotted away. (Click on panorama to expand.)
Tiny flowers growing among the moss on a decaying log.
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June 1, 2014
We took a walk along the Rogue River the morning before heading home on our last day of vacation, and came upon, literally, piles of empty exoskeletons left behind by metamorphosing dragonflies.
Crowning madrone.
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Arianna Helen