A Gallery: Delights & Splendors of Cascadia

[EroticRomanticMan]

Beautiful! They remind me of Spokane.

 

[osprey44]

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Trillium Lake, Oregon

Great shot Tom, I think Trillium Lake is absolutely the best place to photograph Mt Hood, I just don't get there often enough to get a good shot.

 

[cascadiabound]

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Mukilteo Lighthouse, Washington

 

[cascadiabound]

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Crown Point State Park, OR

overlooking the Columbia River Gorge

 

[cascadiabound]

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Orca, near Poulsbo, WA

 

[cascadiabound]

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Kinetic Sculpture Races - Divinci Days - Corvallis OR

 

[BlackCashmere]

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Crown Point State Park, OR

overlooking the Columbia River Gorge

This is SO stunning...

I was in Bali last month and went to a spectacular place called Uluwatu...Visted the beautifull Uluwatu Hindu Temple...The temple is on a cliffside overlooking the ocean...this Picture takes me back there...love it...

Looks so eerily the same...

 

[daus42]

https://youtu.be/YtuWvIDmLl8

 

[funluvinaj]

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Chihuly glass - Tacoma Glass Musuem

Gorgeous!!!

 

[TomBoner]

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[funluvinaj]

The places I've visited in your neck of the woods...

A good friend from my peace corps days lives near Spokane... Her family has a cabin at lake coeur d'alene, idaho

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We did the Hiawatha trail Montana to Idaho if I remember correctly

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/79/c7/b9/idaho.jpg

One of my favorite treats... Delicious Nanaimo bars!
http://cf2.foodista.com/sites/default/files/styles/featured/public/field/image/nanaimobar.jpg

 

[funluvinaj]

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Orca, near Poulsbo, WA

Definitely would love this experience

 

[cascadiabound]

Thanks for posting some of your favorite things AJ.
Here's the recipe for those Nanaimo Bars

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the delectable, amazing Nanaimo Bar - a BC original

The Original Nanaimo Bar
Ingredients:

***Bottom Layer ***

* 1/2 cup unsalted butter (European style cultured)
* 1/4 cup sugar
* 5 tablespoons cocoa
* 1 egg beaten
* 1 1/4 cup graham wafer crumbs
* 1/2 cup finely chopped almonds
* 1 cup coconut

***Second Layer ****

* 1/2 cup unsalted butter
* 2 tablespoons cream PLUS
* 2 teaspoons cream
* 2 tablespoons vanilla custard powder
* 2 cups icing sugar

***Third Layer ***

* 4 squares semi-sweet chocolate (1 oz. each)
* 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Directions:

**Bottom Layer**

Melt first 3 ingredients in top of double boiler. Add egg and stir to cook and thicken. Remove from heat. Stir in crumbs, coconut, and nuts. Press firmly into an ungreased 8" x 8" pan.

**Second Layer**

Cream butter, cream, custard powder, and icing sugar together well. Beat until light. Spread over bottom layer.

**Third Layer**

Melt chocolate and butter overlow heat. Cool. Once cool, but still liquid, pour over second layer and chill in refrigerator.

This recipe for Nanaimo Bar (Official) serves/makes 24 bars.

 

[Susurration]

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Mukilteo Lighthouse, Washington

That's a beautiful lighthouse.

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Crown Point State Park, OR

overlooking the Columbia River Gorge

Wow, what a view! I'd love to stand up there and take in the scenery all around. Stunning.

 

[funluvinaj]

Thanks for posting some of your favorite things AJ.
Here's the recipe for those Nanaimo Bars

I love you.

 

[cascadiabound]

I love you.

Let me know when you make them...I'll run right over!

Maybe we can have a little party with Sailor...I'll bring some good Oregon wine, Washington micro brew and fresh salmon ~ grill it up with fresh blackberrues and we'll eat Nanaimo Bars for dessert on deck. Yum!

 

[UrbanBohemian]

Thanks for posting some of your favorite things AJ.
Here's the recipe for those Nanaimo Bars

This is SO happening.

 

[cascadiabound]

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More spring flowers - Portland, OR.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[cascadiabound]

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It's Baseball season!!!! I LOVE going to baseball games. If I could afford season tickets... (sigh)
Play ball!

 

[UrbanBohemian]

My interests definitely skew to the urban rather than natural. Shocker, eh? And since Seattle truly is urban bohemia I really do like it. My brother is there and I've not gone to visit him yet but I may one day move there or somewhere like it. I'm thinking Vancouver or San Francisco. I've spent a lot of time in SF and it's my favorite town.

Anyway, here are a few things I love about Vancouver, my favorite town I've not been to yet.

http://vancouver-real-estate-bc.ca/_media/Images/Aerial%20Vancouver.jpg
I've heard people say Vancouver is the Canadian New York.

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/Residential-tower-in-Paris-by-Hamonic-and-Masson-and-Associes-and-Comte-Vollenweider-photo-Takuji-Shimmura_dezeen_468_32.jpg
Love this building.

http://www.vancouversun.com/cms/binary/10206370.jpg
This is just beautiful.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/mrp-listings/8/3/3/18633338/b329e9a1897f260ba0e4b113bc9212a4.jpeg
I'd love to live somewhere like this.

 

[cascadiabound]

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When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

By Wendell Berry
Collected Poems (North Point Press, 1985).

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I've heard of these before and often wondered the recipe. Intriguing. Now I can imagine exactly how they taste, thank you Cascadia!

Like millionaire's bars, only better

 

[cascadiabound]

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amidst crashing waves
among life's uncertainties
seabird taking flight
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~haiku by David Robinson​

 

[Susurration]

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When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

By Wendell Berry
Collected Poems (North Point Press, 1985).

I remember hearing this poem in an episode of the television drama and I find it just as moving now as I did then.