Framing the view from my garden

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Making a frame for the mountain on this particular morning, seemed like something creative to try.  Tom Torrens is a well known Northwest artist who created a bell that has stood on our patio for 20 years.  The frame for the first photo is part of that bell, and presented itself as the perfect accompaniment for a photograph on such a stellar morning. As the day progressed and the sun began to set, the cloud formations were nothing short of dazzling. And looking easterly, at the same moment as the sun disappeared behind the cloud bank, in the clarity of the brilliant late afternoon light - the mountain and Commencement Bay were equally beautiful.

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.