Tag Archives: Mount Rainier National Park
Delicate strength: Avalanche Lilies
This delicate flower lives in very tough conditions.
Posted for Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge
Mountain Trails
Lake trail
Lake trail
Trail sign, only 1.4 miles to Paradise
Bridge on the Grove of the Patriarchs trail.
Bridge on the Grove of the Patriarchs trail.
Grove of the Patriarchs trail.
Paradise in every direction
A couple of trail pictures from my recent visit to Mount Rainier for Cee’s Which Way Challenge.
Just Be
Cusick’s Speedwell, aka Veronica
More flowers from Mount Rainier. This one is actually a fairly small plant (I put my sunglasses down for some size perspective. I love its purple-blue color.
Jeffrey’s Shooting Star
I have always like these flowers, and been frustrated by trying to capture them in photos. The combination of the small size and how they like to grow in very moist, often dark spots means that they often come out blurry. Especially since I really try to stay on the paved or rock lined paths. I was surprised to learn from Wikipedia that they are in the primrose family.
Collage of the mountain
I’m not much of a collage person, so this week’s challenge was a challenge. After humming and hawing I decided to try something totally new to me> making a digital collage of photographs. Here is a collage I made using Gimp from 5 of the pictures I took at Mount Rainier last week. I obviously have a lot to learn, and need to practice a lot but it was fun to try something new.
