A Gallery: Delights & Splendors of Cascadia

[TomBoner]

http://67.media.tumblr.com/6480e5e20cfa890f70b7059b1002aa4b/tumblr_o2zl2jAQ361ukes50o1_500.jpg

 

[Susurration]

This lighthouse - Dungeness - is located on the longest spit in North America. It juts nearly 5 miles into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and was the first light house on the West coast if memory serves.
I along with a group of 5 others spent a week volunteering as light house keepers a number of years ago here - we were docents for anyone who walked all the way out to the end of the spit and wanted to go to the top of the light house, kept the property tidy (yes - I polished the brass railing all the way to the top of the light), and various projects as assigned for the week.
It was a lovely week. Quiet and calm. Beautiful - a nature reserve. Stars so bright. And a historic home and light to be privileged to occupy briefly.

Interestingly, Dungeness in the UK is a nature reserve too. Will this mimicking never end ?

 

[TomBoner]

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Vancouver BC

 

[cascadiabound]

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Oregon Coast.... love the power of the Pacific Ocean.

 

[DaddyAsh]

http://67.media.tumblr.com/7da4aa1fdfa08e469a5729bfc01dbe37/tumblr_o0qd48lr1k1qjrtino1_r1_1280.jpg

Oregon Coast.... love the power of the Pacific Ocean.

I love this, so primal...

 

[cascadiabound]

http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmrbtjOKlM1qhhql2o1_500.jpg

Charming Cannon Beach Cottage
Most every summer we have a week long family reunion at Cannon Beach.
It is one of my most favorite places.

 

[cascadiabound]

“Our hearts are not pure:
our hearts are filled with need
and greed as much as with love and grace,
and we wrestle with our hearts all the time.
The wrestling is who we are.
How we wrestle is who we are.
What we want to be is never what we are.
Not yet. Maybe that's why we have these
relentless engines in our chests, driving us forward
toward what we might be."

― Brian Doyle, 2005

 

[cascadiabound]

http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnowcd8Ibm1qhhql2o1_500.jpg

 

[cascadiabound]

“It is hard to stop loving the ocean even after it has left you gasping.”

 

[TomBoner]

https://67.media.tumblr.com/6480e5e20cfa890f70b7059b1002aa4b/tumblr_o2zl2jAQ361ukes50o1_500.jpg

Washington State

 

[TomBoner]

https://66.media.tumblr.com/c3e82865d635cefb461796b24a4f075f/tumblr_o005wxJt7Z1tajkyfo1_500.jpg

Bordeaux ghost town - Capitol State Forest, WA

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Susurration]

http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnowcd8Ibm1qhhql2o1_500.jpg

Spectacular. The light mixed with the clouds like that has a rather magical effect.

 

[meop79]

http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~csav/gallery/decker/images/Crater_Lake.jpg

 

[cascadiabound]

^^^^^ Crater Lake OR

Thanks for posting meop.

 

[DaddyAsh]

http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s602/cascadiabnd/FB_IMG_1453150514338_zpscwlow4mw.jpg

Jeremiah was a Bullfrog....

 

[TomBoner]

https://66.media.tumblr.com/2bba344aa0d147130cb1ebb6a515fc41/tumblr_o8hl6tuibY1ukes50o1_500.jpg

A different sort of pic of mt raenier.

 

[meop79]

http://bcdownload.gannett.edgesuite.net/salem/41801895001/201501/2477/41801895001_3972686597001_Upper-Proxy6SMALLER-smaller.jpg?pubId=41801895001

 

[TomBoner]

http://67.media.tumblr.com/21927e8092a25a5c5190486d836741fd/tumblr_o8794yYtKz1r81c8do1_500.jpg

 

[TomBoner]

https://66.media.tumblr.com/b11a24e7da8dfdcb22201a5cc98df0be/tumblr_o8nawkMRwi1rj6e33o1_540.jpg

 

[Tallcajun]

Good Lord! The sky is ablaze!!

 

[cascadiabound]

https://66.media.tumblr.com/b11a24e7da8dfdcb22201a5cc98df0be/tumblr_o8nawkMRwi1rj6e33o1_540.jpg

Wow. Beautiful pic Tom.
Thank you so much for your contributions.

 

[cascadiabound]

http://imgur.com/ba4sNGx.jpg

Summer hydrangea blossoms wet with rain.

 

[Tallcajun]

http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s602/cascadiabnd/IMG_20160609_140222772_HDR_zpsra7vjreq.jpg
Summer hydrangea blossoms wet with rain.

These are some of my favs. I have about 15 plants in the back yard.

 

[BlackCashmere]

This thread makes me so happy...mother nature in her best form...so uplifting, peaceful and magical...I come here for my daily uplift ...so beautiful...