There were so many amazing views and objects on the Snowdon hike that I couldn’t whittle my choices in photographs down, so this is part two of the photos I chose. I hope you enjoy!

Another view of the road home..

There were so many amazing views and objects on the Snowdon hike that I couldn’t whittle my choices in photographs down, so this is part two of the photos I chose. I hope you enjoy!

This was a neat bridge to walk over!

Ooh, stairs up!

Talk about the road going ever on and on; it was amazing.

There were so many amazing views and objects on the Snowdon hike that I couldn’t whittle my choices in photographs down, so this is part two of the photos I chose. I hope you enjoy!

up up up…

and looking back down

This was a very picturesque sheep!

There were so many amazing views and objects on the Snowdon hike that I couldn’t whittle my choices in photographs down, so I’m going to be putting them up for the next several days.

We traveled out to a nearby park (Bwrch Nant-yr-Afan) for a hike and to watch the feeding of some Red Kites, a medium sized raptor.
The hike was nice, though it was drizzely, but you can definitely see that the moss grows well.

There are advantages to hiking up tall hills:

and advantages to paying attention to moving flowers:

The Red Kites are being fed by the Welsh Kite Trust, who are trying to bring back the Kite from near extinction. Watching the swarming is impressive, and they are just impressive birds:

The first day in Wales again brought up lots of memories of our last trip there, ten years ago. I immediately set off across in a straight line, across field and gate to get where I wanted to go. Luckily, on the way back to town (after a long day of tramping across the countryside) there was as a path that was neatly nestled between ivy-covered trees.

And here is one of the niftier ivy-covered trees:

The fall Welsh countryside is usually predominated by green; lots of green grass, lots of heather, and lots of gorse bushes, without too many of the flowers that make up it’s springtime brightness. So when I found this delicate flower blowing in the wind, I was more than happy to spend a few minutes trying to get it to hold just so for me.

I’ve always liked paths in the woods, so they will show frequently here:

And this bridge is always neat in the summer when everything is green..

and then today we have more clouds.
But, I did take the opportunity and went out and had fun finding things to take pictures of.
I found a lovely sunlit pathway into a community garden,

some sprawly trees reaching up into the blue sky,

and a hint of Mount Rainier beside the tower of Gerberding Hall at the University of Washington.

Today was just immensely foggy, all day long.
We had about 20 minutes of patchy blue behind the clouds, but aside from that, it was eerily foggy out all day.
It was actually quite a lot of fun to be out in, and fun to take pictures in (when the lens didn’t fog up!)
These two are from parks near us here in Seattle.

Woodland Park:

Meridian Park: