Back to the goose family from last week. They are out for a family walk and a swim, with the parents alert and on guard for their little ones!
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For photrablogger’s Mundane Monday #108, a truck being loaded on to the Port Townsend to Coupeville ferry. It is mundane but amazing too, packing the vehicles in for a boat ride and with the narrow clearance at the top!
Blue and gold
Last Sunday driving to Bellingham, everything turns blue and gold when the sun comes out.
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Photrablogger’s Mundane Monday #107, spring color!
My daughter and I ferried and drove to Bellingham yesterday and stopped for lunch. The rhododendron is just ready to open and the colors are so bright and cheerful!
Bones
At Deception Pass, I hike and come to these rocks. This looks like a spinal column to me and ribs to each side, the bones of the passage, the bones of the earth. Or like the back of a sea lion as it breaks the water. This is no timid small mammal and I step lightly and carefully across, hoping not to disturb or awaken it.
Another friend for Mordechai and me.
A friend for Mordechai
I drove my daughter back to school in Bellingham on Friday. On the way back I hike at Deception Pass and then stop in Coupeville before going to the ferry. In Coupeville, I found friends for Mordechai, my clinic skeleton. This is a sea lion and there is a whale and a dolphin, all skeletons hanging from the ceiling. I suspect that they are real skeletons and not plastic, as Mordechai is.
My daughter says, “Mordechai was not alive before.”
“I could argue that she was. She is made from plastic, which is made from oil, which is formed over millennia from plants fallen and slowly changing.”
“Ok, you win on that one, mom.”
Doesn’t this sea lion look like she is flying?
Blue and white
I took this in June 2014. I like the mostly blue again and the juxtaposition of different technology and transportation. Threes and thirds and blues and whites…. and the sliver of brown…..
Up the rabbit stairs
I keep thinking of Alice and rabbit holes and modern rabbits with this picture. Not down the rabbit hole but up the rabbit stairs. This rabbit is at home at the top of the stairs and waiting. What would today’s version of Alice look like?
Rain
From night and water and the moon rise, to day and the plains and rain. I took this from a train a few years ago, going from Edmonds to Chicago and back.
Hold on
This boulder was over my head and out of the water and there are the limpets. Holding on and along a small canyon in the rock that must give them some shelter. Does it protect them from the waves when they return or the birds when the water is low? Hold on, limpets.
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