Sunday, March 16, 2014

Train to Olympia with much bridge fascination

Two weekends ago I took A Cascadadia Train leaving Vancouver at 6:30 a.m.

I began riding trains when I was 5 years old. I rode a lot during high school, college, & grad school years.   I just love seeing patches of land that usually are out of sight, sometimes quite unintentionally landscaped & 'furnished'. Often they are forlorn, stunningly beautiful, or dramatic.

Here's the best of quite a few photos. Most of them are taken with the train moving. Some have window-reflections & other ambiguities.  It was snowing when I left.
There seems to be a lot of bridges.








                                        The smallest tugboat I've ever seen.

 

                                                Sunday morning intersection

Fraser River


                                Alex Fraser Bridge... oh heavens... maybe....

                                                            Early morning joggers-in-the-rain



The beginning of farm land



                                    pump house on the river delta

                                                                        border crossing sculpture 

Bellingham


                                                                   & below Bellingham












                                                        I love this precarious wooden post.



                                                    Two blues
 
Industry appears


                                                                        & disappears


                                                                    & on into Seattle




                                     classic building shape
Tacoma Narrows Bridges


                                                                            Boat garages!

                                            I've arrived in Olympia, WA. We call it OlyWa.

                                                                       That's it for now.