A backlit fir guards the trail on the way to Guye Peak, on a separate outing than the last.  I was scouting possible snowshoeing routes,...

Guye Peak is the knob in the center; Commonwealth Basin stretches out to the left (east) of it.  Cave Ridge between this vantage point l...

Now, fall is underway.  Trees that haven't gotten enough water are the first to turn.  This maple is very yellow, while others aroun...

Summer isn't quite over.  Plenty of folks are enjoying a weekday evening at Golden Gardens, facing the Olympics across Puget Sound. ...

I've spent a number of years living near the University of Washington, but only just now have attended a Huskies game.  The weather ...

Glacier Peak shows very little snow at the end of the 2015 summer in the foreground, with Mt Rainier, Addams, and St Helens in the far d...

This lovingly restored civic gate sits below urban towers and next to a lively market in Seoul, South Korea.  Hopefully it will keep out K...

A twilight view over the southern end of the Gangnam district of Seoul. The office tower to the left showed up as a backdrop to PSY's ...

If you've seen Lost in Translation , you'll know the Park Hyatt Tokyo.  This is the bar behind the piano lounge, which is in front...

This double-decked truss bridge brings twelve lanes of traffic across the Lake Washington Ship Canal.  Those feeling suicidal should recon...

Iridescent colors reflect the Space Needle off Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project Museum in the Seattle Center.

Early, low sun across Juanita bay on Lake Washington.

We drove the car onto a train  to be conveyed under the Simplon Pass, through a 19km tunnel completed in 1906.  I was expecting a passenge...

Yes, this is just a regional bank branch, facing the main square of Lugano. If all banks were as attractive, it might be more of a pleas...

Circling a ridge above the Liechtenstein capital, the Fürstenweg gives views over the Rhine for one section, pine forests for another, and...