Home is where you long to be. As the saying goes, home is where the heart is.
Home is landscape. It is a sense of place.
Home is being with family and friends. It is unconditional love.
Home is beauty. It is whatever stirs the heart.
Home is wonder. It is whatever intrigues the mind.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Bluffs and Headlands of Kalaloch Beach. Olympic National Park.

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Quinault Giants. Quinault Rainforest, Washington.

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Mouth of Kalaloch Creek. Olympic National Park.

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Giant Douglas-fir Tree. Quinault Rainforest, Washington.

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Kalaloch Beach, Olympic National Park.

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Enter an Oceanic Eden

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Pacific Tree Frog

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Placid Forest

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Forest Primeval

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Dissipating Fog

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Sword Fern Bonanza

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Winter Walk

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Northwest Indiana Remnant. Hoosier Prairie Nature Preserve, Griffith, Indiana.

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Beautiful Lummi Morning

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Douglas-fir Window. San Juan Islands, Washington.

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Salish Sea Serenity

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Lummi Vista. San Juan Islands, Washington.

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Licorice Fern Islands. Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area, Washington.

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Douglas-fir/western hemlock Forest. Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area, Washington.

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Wall of Sword Fern. Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area, Washington.

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Ohanapecosh River, Mount Rainier National Park.

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Cold Water Immersion

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Maidenhair Ferns (Adiantum aleuticum=pedatum)

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Regal Fungi

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Intimate Cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii), Joshua Tree National Park, California.

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A Pair of Cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii), Joshua Tree National Park, California.

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Grove of Teddy Bear Cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii), Joshua Tree National Park, California.

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Great Horned Owl. San Luis Valley, Colorado.

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Yellow Pond-Lily (Nuphar lutea subsp. polysepalum)

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Montane Lake, Southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado.

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Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

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Eagle Eye View

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Old Growth Collage. Viewed from Wind River Canopy Crane, Washington.

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The Tippity Top of an Old Growth Forest. Viewed from Wind River Canopy Crane, Washington.

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Upper Canopy of an Old Growth Forest. Viewed from the Wind River Canopy Crane, Washington.

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Forest Giants

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Ancient Canopy

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Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum) Watershed Park, Olympia, WA.

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Pure Montane Sagebrush Steppe. Subalpine park in the Rabbit Ears Range, Colorado.

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Spotted Saxifrage (Saxifraga bronchialis)

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Hanging by a Thread

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Does He See Me? Grouse in southern Colorado.

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Approaching Storm. San Luis Valley, Colorado.

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Subalpine Fleabane (Erigeron peregrinus)

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La Garita Evening. La Garita Mountains, Colorado

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Sand Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

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Pinon Pine Woodland Greeting the Sand, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

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Upper Rio Grande, near the Colorado/New Mexico border

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Mountain Stillness, McArthur Lake, Idaho

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Lichen Grove

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