Flying over Mount Rainier

My husband flew to Arkansas last month on business.  He snapped this lovely photo of Mount Rainier on his way down south.  I was awed by the mountain's beauty and the fantastic day.

Weekend Reflections: Tennant Lake

Our gray, winter skies broke just long enough to give me a shot of blue sky on a pond near Tennant Lake.

Skywatch Friday: A Cloudy Day at Lake Padden

We're camping this weekend, so see y'all on Monday!

Skywatch Friday: Cloud Islands

Shell-pink clouds sprinkle the sky like stepping stones

inviting our daydreams to dance

from one coast to the next.

Kind of Blue...

...just like one of my favorite jazz albums.

This will be our only post this weekend, as we're leaving today for camping at South Whidbey State Park.

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend as much as we're going to!

A Letter

Dear Pacific Northwest Weather,

Yes, I know it rains a lot in the northwest. I have long resigned myself to gray skies and wet sidewalks. When I take a walk, I expect to come back home thoroughly soaked, despite my boots and raincoat. The typical soundtrack to my morning blogging-and-coffee routine is the swoosh of tires on the puddled street. When people complain-- as they inevitably do-- about the incessant rain, I'm the first to leap to your defense, and point out the emerald surroundings that result from all the wet weather.

However, I'm sick of it.

Have you forgotten that we are approaching mid-May? Because it really feels like February out there. Actually, never mind. February was nicer.

You may have been bored with the typical spring weather of sunshine and temperatures in the mid-sixties, but you know what? We liked it that way. Hey, forget the mid-sixties, I'd be happy with hitting sixty degrees. It would be so exciting to leave the house without a jacket.

So if it's not too much trouble, could we lighten up a bit here? Maybe have more than one sunny day in a row, maybe even a couple warm ones? I have gardening to do... that is, if my vegetables become convinced it's spring. And I'm rapidly running out of the photos I took on rare non-rainy days. I have obligations, you know. People will probably stop visiting Bellingham Daily Photo if I only post pictures of my kids, my cats, and rain-streaked windows.

Please. I'm begging here. Please stop with the cold, the wet, the windy. Please bring back the sun!

Soddenly yours,
Lizziviggi

Skywatch Friday: Clouds and Flowers

The fields flash sporadically

bright dark bright dark

as the sun fickly glances through the gray.

Skywatch Friday: Clouds and Pebbles

The pebbled beach gives way to clouds at Birch Bay State Park.

Skywatch Friday: Blue Sky Over Train

Skywatch Friday: The Grass is Greener...

on our side of the fence!

Skywatch Friday: Vicissitude

The vicissitude
as sun set and storm brewed
flooded the sky with chromaticity--
hues of great intensity.


(I just love the word vicissitude--
but you have to say it with attitude!)

Skywatch Friday: Sky's Cauldron

Weekend Reflections: Crow's Nest

Only the slightest ripple in the water disturbs this crow's reflection.

Weekend Reflections: Her Head's in the Clouds

Skywatch Friday: My Head's Up in the Clouds...

...along with the rest of me.

Skywatch Friday: Cathedral Rock in the Mist

Cathedral Rock is grand and shy, shrouded in the misty morning.

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Watching the sky in her eyes

I took this picture of my eldest at the top of the ferris wheel at the Ski to Sea carnival. It was a perfect moment-- hovering in the sky, looking at the sky, reflecting the sky... sounds like a Skywatch Friday picture!

Do They Know They're in a Painting?

swirly sky by Van Gogh

dappled water by Monet

photo by me

Skywatch Friday: Clouds over Kayak

Kayakers in the Northwest
think all weather is best!

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Skywatch Friday: Marble Sky

Clouds reflect the remnants of an October sun.

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