Photos: Lake Serene

[my_daroga]

We took this hike with some friends (including lettered) last summer. Yes, I'm still sorting through photographs from last summer. I thought that having the digital camera would make things easier, and it has in the sense that I don't have to develop/scan anything. However, I have thousands more photos than I would otherwise, and it's all a bit daunting.

Anyway, this was a gorgeous walk less than two hours from Seattle. The photos don't do it justice, naturally, but I thought they were nice, anyway.







I think I'm only including this because it reminds me of this, only far less cool.




















These are Mr. Daroga's friends from high school, or rather, newspaper compatriots, and they now live in Vancouver and are the awesomest people in the world. Which is why they're here, even though you don't know them.

Comments

[holyschist]

Oooh, pretty! I haven't been hiking in the PNW in years. Also, eee, doggie!

[my_daroga]

Not my doggie, but I thought he was worth a photo or two. And goodness, it's gorgeous up here.

[holyschist]

I don't have a dog, but I dogwatch all the time. Yay dogs.

I always forget how pretty the PNW is when it's not raining, although I've been living in Colorado so long all the green kind of overwhelms me these days.

[my_daroga]

I definitely see dogs before people. I mean, on the street, and such. They're cuter, anyway. :)

I love it up here. The dark gets to me more than the rain, actually. And the days when you can see the mountains make it worth it. Though CO is pretty, too.

[holyschist]

The dark kind of goes with the rain. Well. I grew up in Portland, but I have too much of a tendency towards SAD to live there these days. (And I do love being able to go up into the foothills 10 minutes from campus.)

[my_daroga]

I didn't mean that dark--I meant the being that far north kind, the shorter days business. I didn't realize when I moved here how much further north we are than where I grew up, in New Hampshire, but it's a significant difference. The "gloom" bothers me less than getting to work and leaving work in the dark. And I'm not even in Canada or Alaska!

I've gotten better, over the past four years. But I can certainly relate.

[holyschist]

Yeah, it is a bit further north.

[laughingrat]

Wow, those are incredible pics. What a beautiful place!

[my_daroga]

I was lucky enough to have some friends who've lived here longer suggest it. It was gorgeous!