Remember how excited I was to go backpacking in Olympic National Park?
Tag Archives: Mountains
Green and Blue Heaven in the Cascades
My favorite color combination – what, you don’t have one? – is green and blue. I realized this when I looked around my house the other day and saw those colors featured in almost every room.
Posted in Travel
Also tagged Lakes, National Parks, Trees, Washington
Summer Snow at Mt. Rainier
It was a first: I visited a National Park and didn’t get one photograph of what I was there to see.
Posted in Travel
Also tagged National Parks, Snow, Washington
Capturing the Green in Vail
On this last Scamp through Colorado, I was constantly awed by how green everything was.
Hiking the Jemez
New Mexico doesn’t have the 14ers that Colorado does, but still, we’ve got some pretty great mountains like the Jemez, which I spent some time in a few months ago. (Jemez is just west of the weird and interesting Los Alamos.)
Posted in Travel
Also tagged Hiking, New Mexico, Sam, Waterfalls
As If I Needed To Prove My Motto
It’s been a rough week.
Posted in Home in Taos
Also tagged Animals, Nature, New Mexico, Sam, Snow, Winter
The Devil Makes Me Talk Like This
Turns out the Devil Road – Old Route 666 – is indeed evil. If by evil you mean brake murder and hairpin terror. It started out sweet enough. I dropped down off the 40 in Arizona and headed south on what’s now 191 toward the White Mountains. It’s a ribbon of two-lane through rolling hills and vistas, a fun and easy drive for Sadie and […]