Dungeness Landing County park is small (5.6 acres with 13 acres of tideland) but lovely county park. With views of Mount Baker, the Dungeness Spit and the Dungeness Lighthouse, half a dozen picnic tables, benches, an observation tower, and a restroom, this is a great spot to walk the beach, eat lunch and bird watch.
I've a fondness for all things maritime. Though the day went from rain, to clouds to sun, I spent a day running around taking photos of ships of all sizes in Port Townsend and Port Ludlow. With the Alaska cruise season fully underway, it's fun to hang out in Port Ludlow and watch the parade of ships.
Every year, Port Townsend hosts a Victorian Festival. For the Friday kick off, the Jefferson County Historical Society waived admission fees (though my donation was happily accepted) for several of their historical buildings. Grabbing my camera and my sister, we toured the 1868 Rothschild House.
Finally! A sunny warm(ish) spring day led me to the Dungeness River Dike Trail. Starting at the Old Dungeness Schoolhouse, it's about a 3 mile in-and-out trail along the top of the levee built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1964.
The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St Paul Railway, later called the Milwaukee Road, built the Dungeness River Bridge (now just called Railroad Bridge) over 3-4 weeks in the summer of 1915. The last train crossed the bridge in March, 1985. Of course, the bridge is only part of the 53-acre Railroad Bridge Park, which is privately owned by the Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe.
Some days, it just pays off to remember to grab the camera as you walk out the door to run errands. This was one of those days. I managed to snap photos of 3 new birds to add to the bird gallery.
The American Coot (above and below) is one of the strangest birds I've run across. Giant feet, stubby wings, reddish eyes, walks like a chicken, and dives likes a duck.
A mostly-sunny, but chilly day is perfect for the 2022 Great Backyard Bird Count. 30 minutes, 12 species, 45 individual birds. Nothing exotic or out-of-the-ordinary, but fun nonetheless.
Any day that starts with a black-capped chickadee chirping for his breakfast is off to a good start.
A rare white Christmas snow dumped 8 inches of snow, and the temperature stayed cold enough to keep it around for 10 days. Plenty of time to take in the Jamestown S'Kallam holiday light spectacle!
While seven and half inches of snow overnight kept me from my intended plan of photographing the holiday lights, there was plenty of action in my backyard.
A conversation with my mother set me out to prove that a late November gray day can be beautiful too.
After a couple of wild and windy days, the sun was out. Grabbing my camera, I took off for the Port Angeles waterfront to snap one of my favorite subjects -- boats!