April panorama of the Olympic Mountains from across the Hood Canal on the Kitsap Peninsula of Puget Sound © Ed Book This is the view from our home on Nika Trail on the Kitsap Peninsula in April when the clouds are giving us a break. We haven’t seen them in a few days because of [...]
My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
visitors to the pasture or perhaps new residents
Early this morning, the llamagirls were watching something intently outside their pasture and it started me watching too to see what would emerge from the scotch broom. BUNNIES! a couple of them chasing each other all over with Quinault llama taking keen interest. Quilcene will look once in a while but Quinault being the herd [...]
Moonset over the Olympic Mountains from Nika Trail
Moonset over the Olympic Mountains Boulder Ridge, The Needles, Buckhorn Mountain, Iron Mountain and the Jupiter Hills from the Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound, Washington ©2009 Ed Book Watching the full moon set over the snowcovered Olympic Mountains is a rare treat for me. Although I only have to sit up to see the mountains [...]
winter blooming camilias
repost Winter Blooming Camilia – Nika Trail ©2002 Ed Book neither of our winter blooming camilias have buds so this bloom from a few years ago will have to do. How many have seen this image before? raise your hand. Peace
Quilcene llama in the snow
Mz Quilcene llama at Nika Trail ©2007 Ed Book llama wool = excellent insulation Quilcene was on a mission in this image. She walked all over the pasture looking for something. It wasn’t food as I give them more bale alfalfa and llama vigor (a suppliment which they consider candy) Corn/Oats/Barley (for energy and to [...]
snow in the Puget Sound lowlands
Kitsap Peninsula – Puget Sound lowlands (bog along Sesame St up the road from Nika Trail ©2007 Ed Book Contrary to some opinions that I may have generated with my last post of some peaks in the Olympic Mountains from our home here on Nika Trail… Although we have views of the mountains like that [...]
Protected: suiseki
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spidey and spidery
©2007 Ed Book These flowers are of the False Solomon’s Seal which I obtained for one of my gardens from the forest where they were logging and tearing the forest apart. I used a Canon EOS 1Ds Mk II camera with 180mm macro and also added the Canon D500 auxiliary close up lens. (the frame [...]
Mini-Waterlily and Dragonfly
©2007 Ed Book Canon EOS 1Ds MkII with 180mm macro. ISO100, 15sec @ f/22 with polarizer. lighting was ambient and I was holding an umbrella covered with a dark tarp overhead to reduce the sky reflection from the water highlights. The water lilies are growing in a muck bucket waiting for me to finish the [...]
Bearded Yellow Iris in the Nika Trail Gardens
©2007 Ed Book …a macro from yesterday evening in the garden. I used a 180mm macro lens and macro flashes. One flash was positioned above and to the right of the flower and set at 1/8 and the other was positioned against the flower on the left side set at 7/8 so that the flower [...]
Tree Peony macro
©2007 Ed Book I made a few exposures with the 180mm macro lens but couldn’t get far enough away enough for the composition I wanted unless I went to get a ladder so switched to the 24-105 macro zoom and added a D500 auxiliary compound closeup lens. The distance from the petals and flower internals [...]
Trillium (aka Wake Robin) at Nika Trail
©2007 Ed Book ‘macro work this afternoon in our Nika Trail gardens. I planted this and a couple dozen others a couple years ago. I salvaged these plants from some land that was being cleared. trillium are difficult to transplant because they have delicate deep roots and have to be dug out whole or they [...]
Protected: the storm left us with no power at home
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The peaks peeked out a little while this morning
The Brothers – Olympic Mountains from Nika Trail on the Kitsap Peninsula – Puget Sound ©2006 Ed Book Mt Jupiter ©2006 Ed Book I’m ready to head out the door and up the driveway (if I can get through the eight inches of early winter snow) to go up to Mount Tahoma Trails in the [...]
Protected: snow down to sea level
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