Klahini

The world around us and the hard-working people in it are awesome. Easter Sunday morning in Washington's Skagit Valley.

Misty morning at Bar Harbor in Ketchikan, Alaska.

A young eagle tries to land, not too successfully, on the snow-covered light pole above me in Ketchikan, Alaska. Briefly home for my mom's birthday. #alaska #alaskalife #birds #birdsofinstagram #snow

"The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death." -- Thomas Wolfe The Enchantments @ilfordphoto #landscape #mountains #mountainwonderland #mountainworld #film #filmisnotdead #ilfordxp2 #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography

"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson #landscape #red #brycecanyon @brycecanyonnps #utah #nationalpark

"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon." -- Charles Ives . Yosemite Falls at dawn . #dawn #daybreak #landscape #blackandwhite #bandw #bw #yosemite #california @yosemitenps

"Down in the canyon The wind starts to rise. It rides on the wind 'til It reaches your eyes. When faced with the past The strongest man cries ... cries" -- Dan Fogelberg @canyonlandsnps #landscape #canyon #canyonlands #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #bandw

"It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything." -- Maurice Sendak Slot canyon in Zion National Park #landscape #utah #zionnationalpark #zion #blackandwhite #bnw #monochrome @zionnps #layers #texture

"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?" -- Stanislaus Lem, "Solaris" (In honor of Lillian Ference, who loved Lem's writing) #landscape #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #arches #archesnationalpark @archesnps #americanviews

“One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.” -- G.K. Chesterton #landscape #mountains #mountainwonderland #pnwwonderland #pnwbeauty #mountbaker #skagitvalley #blue #beauty

"We drank a toast to innocence We drank a toast to time Reliving, in our eloquence Another 'Auld Lang Syne'" -- Dan Fogelberg Buskers in Seattle's Pike Place Market on New Year's Eve #Minolta X700, MD 50mm f1.7 #Fujicolor 200 #film #filmisnotdead #pikeplacemarket #seattleart #busking #streetmusic #streetmusician #minoltax700

"On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures." -- William Shakespeare #ferries #boats #travel #ships #pnwonderland #pnwbeauty #pnw #Nikon #manualfocus

"Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore! "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'" -- Edgar Allen Poe @nikonusa #ilford #xp2 #nikkor #film #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography

Detail from the Kushtaka pole. It's still lying in the forest at Totem Bight. #alaska #landotter #myth #mythology #totem #carving

"People who fail to regard the truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in matters that are great." -- Albert Einstein #landscape #miniature #brycecanyon #utah #nikon

The large Ballard locks empty (except for 4 tiny people)