An very old leaf and a very new wild rose...

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Looking across the wetlands as the afternoon sun makes the clouds glow...

Did you hear something?

Can't see me, I'm hiding!

Warmer weather next week will melt the snow, and the tiny leaf buds will start popping out on the trees around Coldwater Lake, near Mt. St. Helens.

On a thorny vine in the wetlands... a beautiful leaf.

Wow, are those MY feet???

One of our local citizens...

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Looking across the valley with the sun shining on Johnston Ridge in the distance, and the Toutle River a thousand feet below...

You know, Mildred, I don't think human beings are very smart...

And now for something completely different...

A magic island...

It's moss on the trees, not leaves-- but Spring is in the air...

Our favorite couple, always together...

There's still lots of snow up above.... Iooking at the Mt. St. Helens Caldera.

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Even with chilly temperatures and rain, the water plants are coming back from the murky depths of the wetlands... Spring is on the way!

Out on a limb...

Farewell to a great artist...

Thinking about Andre Previn. He scored movies at MGM while still in his teens. He was an amazing jazz pianist in his 20's -- 1956's "Shelly Mann and his Friends" is one of my favorites. He was a sought after concert pianist who was amazing with Barber, Poulenc, Mozart, Gershwin, Shostakovich and others. He began an outstanding conducting career in the first half of the 60s. He conducted great works with great orchestras. He composed violin concertos and even operas. He was 89. A great life.

Frosty ferns on the forest floor...

A dairy barn in the Toledo Highlands, and Mt. St. Helens. This view makes it easier to imagine what the mountain looked like before it blew its top off...

The amazing waterfall on Coal Creek...

A frosty barn...

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Very unusual snow expected Monday, so I'm thinking about warmer summertime temperatures along the Columbia River...

Looking across Maryhill, Washington, towards Biggs Junction, Oregon, across the river...

A gathering of Eagles...

In a canyon near the sediment dam, the ferns grow everywhere...

Life is good...

A creek in a rain forest...

WInter woods...

Portrait of a barn cat...

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Come aboard...

A gathering of tugboats...

A Barrow's Goldeneye Duck making a trail across Coldwater Lake...

Reaching...

Uh... Hey, how did we get way out here?

Winter walk...

White snow, red berries...

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Taz has been part of our back yard for years, and I don't think he's at all happy about the snow!

Swallow Sonata...

Minnie Peak from the Elk Rock Viewpoint...

This general store has been closed for a very long time...

A magical place where it's always late Spring, and the sun shines every day...

Cold and getting dark...

Mr. and Mrs. Osprey in a fir tree...

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Stella in the Winter light...

More than a hundred years ago, riverboats used to stop at Stella to take on wood for fuel.  It hasn't changed a lot.

What's around the bend...?