I am pressing full steam ahead into retirement but I am not very good at it yet. Another rights of passage.
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Tom McCall Preserve Hike
Lori, Jeanette, Marylyn and I had a short (2.2 mile) but very scenic hike in The Gorge at Tom McCall Preserve. We lucked out on the weather and managed to slip our hike in just before the rain came in. Afterwards we went went to Backwoods Brewing for lunch.
Burnt Bridge Creek Trail West Walk
I had one last piece of the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail and I finish it today. The Freeway section of the trail had a very bad problem with homeless squatters in this area. The city of Vancouver had clear out the squatters on the rest of the trail so I thought it was safe to …
Forest Park Conditioning and Exploratory Hike
I had planned on making this a conditioning hike on trails in the center section of Forest Park but once I went down a couple of new trails all training went out the window and exploring took over. I still got in 7.5 miles with 1850 elevation gain in 4 hrs. of trail time.
Past Tense
I got bit by the photography bug when I was in high school. I use to tell people I was addicted to photography and if I went a few days without taking a photograph I would have withdrawal symptoms. Most of the photography I have done for the last 40 years has been done to fulfill other peoples photos needs. Towards the end of my career as a commercial photographer I did get burnt out. Now that I am retired look forward to trying to find the passion I had when I started in my own work.
You can see more of my commercial work Here.
Pretty Pictures
My formal training was in photojournalism. The art of documenting and telling a story. But I always had a draw to nature photography. My blog post allow me to continue to tell photograph story while here I am placing a more artistic side.
You can see more of my work here.
