Anacortes is a welcoming community during ALL seasons! This photo shows fall colors at the “welcom” pocket park on the highway leading into town.
Stark setting, beautiful colors. A hummingbird at shoreside, west Fidalgo Island.
First came a period of no rain, taking a toll on local trees. Then came some cool fall temps and wind. Not leaves, but needles from conifers. The Loop Road in Washington Park, west Anacortes.
Walkers mingle with bicyclist on Tommy Thompson Trail. Yes, signs of fall are appearing…
This Northwest still life features maple leaves from shoreline trees, mixed in beach sand with clamshells and a seagull feather. Fall can’t be too far down the road…
I gathered this collection of images on the way up the stairway from Guemes Channel Trail to Roadside Park on Oakes Avenue in Anacortes.
A beautiful fall afternoon on the walking trail at Breazeale Interpretive Center in Bay View.
Inspired by a weekend farmers market booth featuring edible mushrooms, I ventured onto a forest trail this morning at Little Cranberry Lake. I can’t identify these mushrooms, and would not try to pick them, let alone consume them. But it’s fun to locate and photograph them. Stars of the fall season in the Pacific Northwest.
I love tugboats. I love Mt. Baker. On a Tuesday afternoon drive I found them together.
It must be October. These days my morning adventures on Fidalgo Island are wrapped in fog.
With the changing of seasons has come a dramatic drop in the level of the bird population at Ship Harbor on the west side of Anacortes. Of course my walk included sightings of gulls, herons and crows. There is also still an osprey in a nest. And I was happy to encounter the little birds […]
This photograph serves as evidence of the seasonal change under way. This carpet of leaves covers the path heading west at Ship Harbor Interpretive Preserve on the west side of Anacortes.