A Gallery: Delights & Splendors of Cascadia

[Mrtenant]

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Puget Sound sunset from Magnolia Park Seattle, WA


Okay folks... It is official... I have been removing all of the nasty broken links in this thread...
I have migrated all of my images to a new photo service, and I am going to continue posting on this thread.
And because I seem to be deeply stubborn, I am going back and slowly repairing the links in the thread with images.
{Are you tempted to go and see what might be back in the ancient pages? I hope so... but no hurry.. it will take me weeks to fix all of the links... maybe longer}

I will be reposting images that were previously posted (as well as lots of new ones ~ never fear... I am always taking pics) -
so if you have seen it before... just greet it like an old friend. That is how I think of many of these images.

I hope I do not bore any of you to tears.

I do love that so many of you visit this thread as something different on Lit. Love you all.

cb

Beautiful pic.

I would give much to sail on that boat in that sunset.

 

[cascadiabound]

Beautiful pic.

I would give much to sail on that boat in that sunset.

It's a date darling.

 

[Mrtenant]

It's a date darling.

Excellent! Cheers!


https://www.marbella-guide.com/wp-content/uploads/sunset2-550x293.jpg

 

[cascadiabound]

http://www.leafpress.ca/Alison%20Watt/Cover.gif​

The Crossing (an excerpt)

Cabo—
through the keyhole arch,
the horizon
where I have agreed to live
for the next year—

starting tomorrow (weather permitting):
blue tiled monastery, frescoed cloud,
I will enter
with my shorn braid
in a ziplock in my bunk,
my navigation instruments,
my trick heart

and my usual ambivalence.

Outside,
rip tides and rogue waves,

the whole Pacific breathing out and in.
The end is where we begin

to let go.
The anchor unburies itself,
swims up through clear water
like a grouper.


A long poem about sailing from Baja to the Marquesas, but it's really about seabirds, flying fish, sea, sun, stars, free wind and free will
by Alison Watt

 

[Susurration]

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Ruby Beach WA

The way that this picture has been taken is excellent. It's like looking through a natural porthole, rather than one on a ship. Ir's beautiful.

 

[cascadiabound]

The way that this picture has been taken is excellent. It's like looking through a natural porthole, rather than one on a ship. Ir's beautiful.

Smiles*
Lovely to see you Sus

 

[Susurration]

Thank you, it's great to see you too .

I'm really pleased that you're putting your thread back in order. There are so many wonderful pictures that need to be displayed again.

 

[cascadiabound]

Thank you, it's great to see you too .

I'm really pleased that you're putting your thread back in order. There are so many wonderful pictures that need to be displayed again.

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Lake Crescent WA cabin

Thank you Sus.

cb

 

[cascadiabound]

Summit

Receding glaciers gleam on granite,

old medals from the Pleistocene cold wars.



I am ten, a bookish girl with skinny legs

and thin hair prone to tangles,

crossing this divide for the first time,

from the opposite direction,

just beginning to understand

how big things were:

prairie, mountain, river,

loss: the wheels of the train chanting

nevermindnevermindnevermind



closing the miles between us.



Given enough summers

ice a mile thick from valley to peak will melt.

Given enough revolutions

wheels can take us anywhere,

but memories—the smell of my mother’s grey wool coat,

Evening in Paris and stale cigarettes,

the first time I saw you

at that dinner party years later in Kitsilano,

rumpled white shirt and shock of red hair—

clatter like tin cans tied to the bumper

of my getaway car.

By Allison Watt​

 

[cascadiabound]

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Cherry Orchards WA

Cherries anyone?

 

[cascadiabound]

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Titlow Beach, Tacoma, WA

 

[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

I just learned that Brian Doyle,
Lake Oswego OR author whose prodigious literary output earned him numerous honors
including the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
("puzzling him to this day," say several of his author biographies),
died Saturday, May 27, 2017 from complications related to a brain tumor.
He was 60 years old.

*sob*​

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[Mrtenant]

“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

I just learned that Brian Doyle,
Lake Oswego OR author whose prodigious literary output earned him numerous honors
including the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
("puzzling him to this day," say several of his author biographies),
died Saturday, May 27, 2017 from complications related to a brain tumor.
He was 60 years old.

*sob*​

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The man has great words.

 

[cascadiabound]

http://www.shannontech.com/ParkVision/MtRainier/MR-139.jpg

Sunrise area of Mt Rainier Nat'l Park

 

[L8tnIt]

http://www.shannontech.com/ParkVision/MtRainier/MR-139.jpg

Sunrise area of Mt Rainier Nat'l Park

Makes me miss home. To see that view every morning was a breathtaking sight to behold.

 

[cascadiabound]

I am here to report that I have now repaired nearly half of the broken photobucket links in this thread that are in my posts...
Photobucket can kiss my ass.

 

[cascadiabound]

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Alpineglow on Mt Rainier WA

 

[cascadiabound]

"I believe so strongly, so
viscerally, in a wisdom and
vast joy under the tangled
weave of the world, under
the tattered blanket of
our evil and tragedy and
illness and brokenness and
sadness and loss, that
I cannot speak it, cannot
articulate it, but can only
hold onto ritual and
religion like a drowning man
to a sturdy ship."

~ Brian Doyle​

 

[cascadiabound]

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Deception Pass, WA

 

[Mrtenant]

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Alpineglow on Mt Rainier WA

Gorgeous, darling

 

[cascadiabound]

Gorgeous, darling

Thanks sweetheart. Make a trip to the NW and I will show you around.

 

[Mrtenant]

Thanks sweetheart. Make a trip to the NW and I will show you around.

That near the Dairy Queen?

 

[cascadiabound]

That near the Dairy Queen?

Yup...right nextdoor.

http://www.roadarch.com/11/8/dqcakes.jpg

 

[cascadiabound]

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Yaquinna Bay Bridge, Newport, OR

 

[cascadiabound]

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Tofino BC ~ sunset

Please do migrate the images, CB. It's a really beautiful collection, and I'm certain that it's a source of great pleasure to more people than you know... You can do it slowly. We'll wait...

(Is it possible that it's just a glitch at their end? I don't use this hosting service, but it seems to me like either they've simply screwed up, or they're going to get a real backlash for suddenly trying to screw their users... )

I found out earlier today that it's not a glitch and that they're going to charge a ridiculous amount of money to release the images. Not very pleasant of Photobucket at all in my opinion. I think that it might be easier to start a new thread or put a link in the first post to where the pictures begin again if you prefer to continue this one.

Great! Hope it works out. Thanks for all you do to keep this lovely tread alive.

Images all migrated and broken links have all been repaired through the whole thread. (I am a bit of a compulsive girl...many of the images have been swapped out for new and different pics than I originally posted because I could not always recall the precise image and.... well... just because.) And now I will just carry on posting. I hope you all just continue to visit Cascadia and me here.

Love all of you who visit this thread.