October 1st--theme day--Mystery

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Mushroom hunting and other signs of Fall

 These lovely Golden Chanterelles 9Cantharellus cibarius) were waiting in the woods for someone (us) to come along and pick them.  We were shown the place by someone who knows the woods well and knows all the secret hiding places.  I posted a picture of the woods but blogger seemed to have misplaced it.  Had these for dinner along with fresh caught silver Salmon, salad (fresh from the garden)  Yummy dinner.

 The trees are just starting to turn fall colors.

Apples are ripening.  Now there will be fresh applesauce, pies, apple crisp---oh I could go on and on.

Where have all the farmers gone

 This barn is empty now.  Everyone left last Spring and it has been empty all summer.
The house pictured here goes with the barn and is also empty.  It all looks so sad.  No crops in this year.

 

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Mountain Wild Flowers

 Here are two of the many wildflowers we saw on Mt. Baker.
Pink Mountain Heather (phylliadace emperfarmis)==A mainstay on Baker.

White Heather (cassiage mentensiana)

Both growing at subalpine to alpine meadows.

Mt. Baker and wild Blueberries

 We found the wild Blueberry ( Cascade Blueberry vaccinium deliciossum)

 A path across a meadow and when we went around the corner there in front of our faces was THE MOUNTAIN---and blogger forgot to put it in.  Not me!!! I'll put it on my day4plusday4plus blog you can access by clicking on the picture in the left hand corner. 

 Here I am walking across the snow.  YAY!!

 That she is.

 This long shaft is a moraine--which is  rubble left behind after a glacier.

Up close and personal.

So this was part of our hike up to Mt. Baker--actually I took 106 pictures. And Bob took 63 and he also is in this last picture.

Corney barn

This barn looks like it is getting swallowed up by the corn field all around it.

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Edible Thistle

Edible Thistle (cirsium edule)is found moist forests and meadows in mid to subalpine elevations.
Kinda pretty I thought.  Something to think about if you are lost in the high mountains.  MB

Sunrise, Sunset and a big Moon

 Sunrise in the back yard

 Sunset over Skagit Bay

And a Big Moon coming up over the trees
September 13th, 2011

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Hoot hoot!!

We think this is a Spotted Owl although it also resembles a Barred owl.  Both live in this area and Barred Owls are beginning to take over the Spotted Owls territory.  They even cross breed so identification is hard.  Any guesses?  
This was taken in the back yard on the fence post.

Added note:  We concede ----A Barred Owl it is!       Thanks!

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Jim's catch of the day

First silver (Coho Salmon) of the season.  MmmMMmmm it was very tasty too.

Wild Bull Barn

The barn has a small arena and a few years ago every Friday and Saturday they put on a Bull riding event and Bull riding classes.  It was a lot of fun to watch and cheer the boys and the bulls.  The barn and arena is still here but no more rodeo.......for now anyway.
I took this through the windshield as I was just driving out from Stanwood.

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Be there or be square!!

At ease Disease..................

............There's Fungus amongest...
We used to say that as kids when we would see any fungus.  Funny then--haha!!

Artist Fungus (Ganoderma appalnatum)

Old barn and cupola

I cut off the cupola so I had to show it with it's leaping salmon.

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August Sunset

Over Skagit Bay.

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