Salal is an evergreen plant that carpets the forest floor in areas where there is an opening in the canopy, and near roads and paths.
It is green, most of the time. Except in the fall, where some of the leaves start to decay and acquire a bit of individuality.
The decay patterns are interesting.
Very individual.
And lacy.
And some go very red, as a final big show…
I am building a sky gallery. These are some samples.
All these photos were taken on Saturna Island, in BC.
A view of the big sky, from the top of the mountain.
On a brisk late summer day, when the wind ripped the clouds into patterns…
From the water, on a boat, looking up… puffy clouds everywhere.
Storm clouds on the horizon, to the North West…
And just before sunset, all the cloud action can become Turneresque…
In my great grandmother’s time,
All one needed was a broom
To get to see places
And give the geese a chase in the sky.•
The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.•
Oh Cynthia,
Take a clock that has lost its hands
For a ride.
Get me a room at Hotel Eternity
Where Time likes to stop now and then.•
Come, lovers of dark corners,
The sky says,
And sit in one of my dark corners.
There are tasty little zeroes
In the peanut dish tonight.
Around the island, lots of water creatures swim about.
Sometimes, they hang around in groups, like the river otter clan in the header, above.
And they also live quiet single lives.
“You talking to me?”
Here is another shot of the East Point otter clan:
And during the fall and winter, sea lions also hang out – with bald eagles – on Boiling Reef, at the tip of East Point, Saturna Island.
Here they are, with Bellingham, WA, in the background.
A tug is pulling a log boom (a raft of floating logs, recently cut). Up and down the sound it goes, very slowly, killing time.
This is one of those “just because” photos, showing the traffic in front of my house.
Mount Baker is an impressive mountain, a volcano, actually. It dominates the sky, from the Anacortes shoreline.
Above, an early morning peachy-colored skyline, featuring the volcano in the background. Taken at the ferry parking lot, in Anacortes, WA.
Then, blue shading started to come in… This was about thirty minutes later, and the pastels were softly changing.
And this was taken from the ferry, about an hour later. I think it was just before Friday Harbor, our midway stop before crossing the international boundary, heading for Sidney, on Vancouver Island.
And below… this is what Mount Baker, the White Sentinel, looks like, from Saturna Island, in BC.
