Mountane 1 of 3

Ok, here we go... another round of super old pictures! Last July, DMA & I had a great time cruising along the Mountain Loop Highway. We started our trek in a great spot... A-town! Our first stop was at the Trafton School just off Jim Creek. It turns out that it was a great time to visit: they have recently closed the school! Given this information, it was bitter sweet to walk the grounds of the school.

I took a ton of pictures this day! We continued from Trafton to Darrington, then took a right at *the* stop sign onto the Mtn Loop Hwy. We stopped by the ice caves, too, but my pictures from there were kind of so-so. I broke the pics into three posts to keep the scrolling to a minimium ;) This one is focused on the Trafton School, #2 is a tribute to some little petals of sunshine & #3 wraps up the day with random pics from the road. Thanks so much for looking at my pics!

Mountane 2 of 3

This is the second round of pics from along the Mountain Loop Highway. I actually have had this set on my mind for awhile... they have been my incentive to finish up the earlier pics from June & July. Kind of like photographic candy.

Somewhere (I can't remember where now...) we pulled off the main road & found a side road with a bridge over a river (probably the Stilly?). There were a TON of wildflowers in this area. I searched for the perfect clump of daisies & spent about a half hour here! These are a few of my favorites...

Thanks for taking a little look!

Mountane 3 of 3

This is the third set of pics from the drive DMA & I took last July via the Mountain Loop Highway. The first two are viewpoints from the road, the bottom three are from good ol downtown Darrington.

Thanks for taking a looksie!

Snow Lake

oooh sniffles. fever is gone, thankfully, but ugh. I still don't have enough energy to quite muster up a thoughtful blog entry. So, I'll be keeping it simple, thank you very much.

Waaay back in July (yes... eyes rolling... July) dma& I hiked up to Snow Lake. It was awesome, and looking at these pics now makes me want to hit the trail again soon!

So, here are some pics from the trail. Oh how I love stopping water!




And a couple views from the trail...

And Snow Lake itself! I lack the POWERS to make this photograph dazzle as much as the real thing, so I just kept my edits to a minimum.

Check out the cool design of the ice!!

Thanks for taking a look, hope all is well!

Yakima

I was supposed to be in Yakima today. Or Seattle. Or anywhere else that had an ounce of photographic inspiration. Instead...I was home. With my cat (awww, euka!). and a 100.2 degree temp.


oh well... gave me a chance to edit these pics from July while re-watching When In Rome.

In all my years as a Washingtonian, I never knew there were canyons in Yakima. What a lovely surprise! And a drive home via Chinook Pass? Could a summer day get any better?

And that, dear friends, wraps up my lovely summer road trip. And now... time for Theraflu...zzzzz