A peaceful lazy day with no agenda and, amazingly, some free-time allowed one of my favorite photographic indulgences: walking my yard hunting for mushrooms. I find the varieties of mushrooms simply amazing and love to lay stomach-to-the-ground taking their photo.

The Mountain: morning, noon, dusk. Happy Thanksgiving!

We saw quite a show on the ride home tonight – even the iPhone gives a sense for the colors and what looked like a sky on fire.

We always enjoy our time in Port Townsend and so we decided to spend another perfect Saturday in November in our “Madison of the Pacific Northwest”.

I’ve been wondering if the actual ferry path resembled that on Google Maps so I tracked it today.

I haven’t been drooling over maps as long as others I know, but I do enjoy them. Since a picture is worth a thousand words I wanted a way to put our travels on the map. I think geo-mashup is just the solution.

On Sunday, off-island ventured the budding naturalists – with dreams of sticks, water, mountains, birds and fun – to Scenic Beach State Park.

We had some fantastic weather today and I had a couple hours in the afternoon with nothing to do so I strolled around the yard making photos.

We’ve not yet exhausted the great stuffed animal collection but we’re mixing it up today anyway. My daughter has a small collection of farm and safari Anamalz so today we decided I would indoctrinate this menagerie in the commuting-on-the-“big boat” brigade.

Via Agile Testing: