The old and the new

I finally got to point my camera at some pups again this weekend!  My friend Devin came by to visit today with his handsome little boy Keiser.  The last time I saw him he was about a third of the size he is now (Keiser that is, not Devin).

 You can see why I couldn't wait to post these shots.

I love his squishy face!  And he's such a chill puppy.

Although he did get a case of the zoomies when he met Rosie, my boyfriend's parent's dog. She's much older and wiser then little Keiser, and played for a little bit, but soon had to tell him to settle down.  Anyway the visit reminded me of this great shot I got of Rose the last time she was here in July.

And then I found this shot too.  It has nothing to do with the dogs except that I took this photo the same day as the one of Rose.

This moth and I came to an agreement.  If he sat there quietly and didn't flutter around, I wouldn't squish him.  In fact, he was so good, I finished getting ready (he was in the bathroom), photographed him, then opened the window and let him out, without incident.  It was a pretty rare encounter if you ask me.

Sandcut Creek

As promised, here are the images from Sandcut Beach.  It gets it's name from Sandcut Creek, a creek that cuts through sandstone, running out of the woods, and tumbling onto the beach.  It's a beautiful and secluded beach.  We only saw two other people while we were down there.  This is probably because the trail to the beach is unmarked, there is however, a small gravel pull off marking where to start for those who are looking for it.

Here is the creek, cutting these beautiful formations into the sandstone.  There was a man sitting and reading a book beside the creek when we arrived.  he told us that the creek is completely different every time he comes down here, but always beautiful.

The water as it tumbles over the edge of the stone to the beach below.

I love the compressed perspective on this one.  The Olympic mountains are hidden behind a fog bank that blends into the sky, making it look like you can see to the horizon, but maybe the horizon isn't really that far.

The creek was very yellow.

There were actually two sets of falls, but this is the one to the right.  The water forms a pool where it hits the beach, but then disappears below the rocks and sand instead of running into the ocean above ground.

Mo' Fog

As we passed through the town of Sooke, on our way up to Sandcut Beach (pictures to come), we saw this big fog bank sitting on the water. This led me to pull over, and we wandered down to find this beautiful little marina.

There were some pretty damaged docks. I wonder if that happened during some of those crazy wind storms in the winter.

When we got down there, we saw these two seals hanging out together, and soon realized it was a Mom and baby.

The white one is the baby, we realized this when Mom started doing this weird floating thing with just her nose sticking out of the water. Then we saw baby just under the water, by Mom's belly. She was feeding baby.

The baby was pretty curious about us.

There's the fog bank I mentioned.

The timing on this one was great, the gull in the background took off as I was snapping a photo of his friend.

I got a little closer to the dock, but I would have liked to get right up there. It was pretty warped.

Just out the front door

I just had a friend in town for a few days. It was pretty rainy for the first part of his visit, and he didn't believe that there was a "mountain" out the front of our house. So I took Justin out to Mount Doug for a walk, to prove that it was there.

As we walked through the trees, a fog rolled in above us. It got thicker and heavier as we stood there marveling at it. Fog never quite looks as good in photos as it does in person... but I still gave it a shot (pun intended?).

It's pretty amazing to have a rain-forest so close to your house!