Dark Northwest Pins and Buttons

PNW Pacific Northwest Dark Blue

Of the 40 or so Dark-Eyed Juncos who visit the backyard in the fall and winter, there is the odd nonconformist -- in this case, a Cassiar Dark-Eyed Junco -- an intergrade Slate-Colored X Oregon. Slate-Coloreds are common in the east and the Oregons are the "de factos" Juncos out west -- so this hybrid (perched on the pear tree, keeping warm on our first snowy winter day!) was probably the result of a mating between both species where their breeding ranges overlapped. Photographed in South Delta, British Columbia, Canada during the Polar Vortex of 2016.

Midnight Circles

Geometric Foggy Moody Forest Landscape

Moody Blue Forest Drive

moonlit bear

Ambleside

Wolf got some mountain on its back

My Winter Baker picture meets the stars and the full moon for a wondrous evening in Northern Washington.

Mountain and Northern Lights Landscape Design

Boardwalk at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge during high tide, May 2018.