Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
We got a dusting of snow on Monday night. We live closer to sea level so “dusting” was a pretty grand term to use at our house. But as I drove closer to town yesterday — say, the loftier elevations of 300 feet or so — it was clear that snow had fallen.
Friends at higher elevations declared themselves snowed in rather than braving snowy driveways and icy roads. Some of us don’t even own snow shovels.
Gee, even the golf course had snow!
This is a view of the Sequim Civic Center that I haven’t shown before. Most of my other shots were taken from the side, back in the days before the plaza in front was completed. This is the view across Sequim Avenue.
And here is a view of the totem pole that resides on the plaza to the right of the city hall, a gift from the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, the area’s original residents.
Here’s one of my favorite trees again, the willow that stands at the eastern entrance to Dungeness Recreation Area. It does a fine job of basking in late autumn light. And it’s showing off its leaves before they get shaken off in the next storm or two.
We’ve had plenty of rain — and wind — lately. The day I took this last week we had several squalls that featured horizontal rain. In between we had rainbows. And as I raced to catch this one I noticed it was a double rainbow. Can you see the faint second one to the left in this shot? It’s very faint.
Here’s the other end of the same rainbow. You can see the second one a little better on the right.
The wild weather isn’t over yet. Snow — not common around here — has been forecast.
Songbirds have left for the year. The starlings and blackbirds seem to enjoy having the place to themselves.
These grasses danced in the sunlight…because — as is par for the course — the wind came up the minute I pulled out my camera.
I went for the obvious for today’s City Daily Photo theme, “Transition.”
This is one of the bigger transitions in my life, the day a gigantic moving truck picked up everything we owned in California and drove off. After several stops it arrived at our destination, Sequim, Washington. This marked the end of my life spent entirely in California, the end of my working career, and, for a while, the end of much that was familiar. Knowing all this, I was filled with excitement. The lack of anxiety assured me that all would be well, as it has been.
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