Category Archives: geology

High Cascades ~ Wide Open Spaces in Black and White ~ Sunday Stills

In the mid to late 1960’s my father, mother, brother, and family friends took our horses to the high Cascade Mountains in Washington, to hunt deer. Someone in the party snapped this photograph, looking down across a valley. The horses … Continue reading

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Bridge ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ On The Move

On a recent trip home from Long Beach, WA, the weather cleared enough for me to take a series of shots of the Astoria-Megler Bridge.  Located fourteen miles (23 K) from the mouth of the Columbia River, it is the … Continue reading

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Pinnacles ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Grand

Crater Lake National Park is almost in my back yard; a mere 250 miles South.  Last summer my sister took me around the entire perimeter and then down to the canyon floor to see the pinnacles.  Maybe not Grand, as … Continue reading

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