And then sometimes .....

And then sometimes ... it's as though we live in another place altogether! My mother used to love to tell the story of going to a lecture by a group of Rotarians who had visited the Pacific Northwest from Australia.  One of the speakers was showing images of the beautiful scenery of the region and projected a photo, much like the one from this morning, onto the screen announcing that this was Mt. Rainier! My mother was the only one in the audience who laughed out loud. She too had been here when the mountain at the end of my garden seems to have disappeared and does not show itself for days and days. So for today we listen to the muffled sounds that fog brings and wait knowing we will be rewarded on another day: perhaps with a view like the one below from another January day in another year.

At the end of my garden stands a mountain!

Mt. Rainier and Commencement Bay of Puget Sound

At the end of my garden stands a very tall mountain. Her name (for I am certain that mountain is a she) is Tahoma.  She is also known as Mt. Rainier. Locally, here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, she is also simply known as The Mountain. For more than 40 years I have watched and documented the many moods of this mountain.  There was a time when I thought to try and publish a book of some of my images of this monolith but like so many plans in life - it hasn't come to fruition.  In the meantime I decided my blog was as good a place as any to share some of my images.  This view (taken earlier this week) might be called - now you see me and in a flash I'll be gone! It was a moment when "quick get the camera" flashed through my mind and while not a fabulous quality image it shows a huge fog bank moving in and indeed - in a flash - she was gone.