Redmond... while taking the railroad shot below, a
Warren Zevon song was in my
mind... "well I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E...
but the train don't run by here no more, poor poor pitiful me"...
Sunday, April 27
One of the first Spring-like days of the season... driving by Green
Lake in Seattle...
East from Seattle on the 520 Floating Bridge, over Portage Bay and Lake
Washington to Bellevue. The western face of the Cascade
Mountains glistened in the afternoon sunshine. While taking late
afternoon sustenance at Crossroads in Bellevue, at the
Ebru Mediterranean Grill,
we decided to drive east toward
the Cascades...
About 20 miles east of the Seattle area we turned to the south in the
hope of getting a good view of Mt. Rainier at sunset. We stopped at a
stream where salmon spawn and we passed a peacock near the Green River
Gorge...
As dusk approached, the great dormant volcano came into good view as we neared Enumclaw.
Mount
Rainier is about 40 miles away in these
shots...
At Enumclaw we decided to push on the rest of the way to
Mount Rainier,
even though darkness was fast approaching. As we reached Rainier's base
the last traces of sunlight were giving way to starlight, and the ice clad
peaks were barely visible. The National Park seemed all but deserted as
we looped around the mountain from the east to the south. Above the
timber line, snow ploughs had created ice walls 10 - 20 feet deep at the sides of
the road. We came to a turn-out and stopped to take a look around... and
on this perfectly clear and cold night the starry sky was stunning...