RHH's photos

Sunset at Potholes Point in th Needles District of Canyonalnds National Park, Utah.

Photographed in the Dahlia Garden of the Spokane Dahlia Society in Manito City Park.

Another Dahlia from the gardens of the Dahlia Society in Manito City Park, Spokane.

Photographed in the perennial gardens of Manito City Park, Spokane.

Photographed in the perennial gardens in Manito City Park, Spokane.

The photo is from Olympic National Park in Washington and from the visitors' center at the end of the Hurricane Ridge Road. Olympic National Park is a huge park with many different areas of interest, mountains, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, rainforests, seacoast, beaches, huge trees and wildflowers, elk and deer, mountain goats, birds, waterfowl and many other things to see. Hurricane Ridge and the road to it are one of the most popular parts of the park.

The view from Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. We have been there many times but not now for several years.

When we retired in 2017 we purchased this home near the town of Medical Lake, Washington, to be near our handicapped son. The house had been empty for two years and had been a rental for a number of years before that and was a mess. Since that time we've refurbished the house inside and out and recently finished the last major project, new windows. The photo shows the house as it now looks, though before the new windows were installed. We have a son who is a building contractor and he had come out a number of times and is the main reason the house looks like it does. The lawn and gardens were a mess as well, mostly weeds and bare dirt and my wife has worked hard on those, and they, too, are now in order. The inset shows Clear Lake which is across the street and down the hill from our home. We did not purchase the house because of its nearness to the lake, but have come to love the lake, and some of our grandchildren, who now live in the area, love the lake as well.

This is Clear Lake, the lake near which we live. As with many of the lakes in the area, there are sheer cliffs around part of the lake, though where we live the lake is accessible from a park maintained by the homeowners association.