Christmas Harvest

I had my pick out of about 20 different tree farms to visit today to document as they prepare for the holiday season. On each of my many trips up and down scenic and remote Mt. Baker Highway I've always looked out my window intrigued with these clean repetitive rows of nearly identical trees against the undomesticated rough-and-tumble of forested hills. So, up Mt. Baker Highway is where I chose to go. This picture doesn't do much to suggest that contrast I described, but I like seeing the tree up up in the air like that, horizontal against the horizon, distinctly uprooted. I do think I'll go back though on my day off and try to work that contrast a bit more, when I'm not concentrated on pictures for the paper.

Northwest Hoops

Upon arriving in the northwest, I was struck immediately by the canopied outdoor basketball courts. Of course they're covered, it rains here all the damn time. Little known fact: rain is actually Washington's state bird. Its also the state marine mammal and amphibian. Steelhead trout is the state fish.
Another thing about Washington, although its cloudy and subdued a great deal of the time, there are these really sublime glimpses of light, when the clouds thin and diffuse the sun. Its subtle in this picture, not sublime, but you can see how soft the light is and how open the shadows are.

Tying Grandma's Shoes