Awesome Threesome

Ferns and mosses are typical of tropical rain forests in South America, Africa, Southeast Asia and lets not forget "Gods own country" Kerala. For snow capped mountains you would probably visit.. Switzerland, New Zealand or our own Himalayas in India/Nepal. For a beach, you would probably go to Maldives or Seychelles. Now, how about a days trip to a sample from each of these sets! You leave in the morning.. and have your morning walk in the wilderness of a rain forest.. and by noon when the sun is terrible on u .. get to the shade of eternal stretch of snow covered mountains....and for the sunset you have a stroll down a beach!!! get back to bed at night.. wake up early the next morning.. and start wondering.. if it was all .. merely a good dream... pinch yourself once.. feel the pain... and u realize.. u had been to "Olympic National Park" !!!! Yes this is what you get...

The Hall of Mosses at Hoh Rain Forest

Snow capped Olympic mountain ranges at Hurricane Ridge




Beaches on both your sides at Dungenness Spit as you walk into the sea

(Dont mind... the scattered broken logs, its not poor maintenance.. its "natural reserve" in US terminology, nevertheless .. you could be rest assured that the stroll along the beach would be as peaceful as it could get )

And again its not only the greens and the whites.. if you are satiated with them all through the day...you have some bright and striking colors too.. but again .. Its Olympic National Park.. You only get packages.. so herez a 2-in-1 again!

The Flower Power

Disclaimer: I am not an expert in taxonomy of flowers.. and definitely not an expert in giving the right names to colors.. So, what I call orange.. u may call pink ! ;) Whats more important to me are the flowers themselves and how beautiful they are.. so, I don't want to be talking too much abt it... the pics speak for themselves!

So lemme start off with a lavender flower..

and a purple orchid... hope i got it all right upto this point :)

This is WHITE.. I cant get it wrong!... and I'm pretty sure this is a variety of rose (open for debate...)

I call this orange...

and this one pink!!

The H2O Effect

Want to know what H2O does to images ?

(View enlarged images by clicking on these pictures
in order to appreciate the difference)

Now.. see the same flower without it ...

Even worse.. imagine this place.. without H2O :)

The Missing Colors

I have noticed that most of my posts have been missing the essential ingredient of an attractive photo blog.... the multitude of colors of nature! Most of my blogs so far have been in green, white and blue. I realize that I have been trying to cook sweets without sugar... (not to discount the fact that Washington is the evergreen state of US .... so in a way green represents WA).

But, from now on .... I will make sure I add the right quantity of sugar.. So, atleast for the next week.. my blog shall contain.. one colorful post apart from the waterfalls and mountains. To make up for the lost colors.. I shall post some colors thats have been prominently missing so far..

Is there anything better than red roses that I can start with.. to depict the colors ? probably not... So here are some red roses for the rose lovers...

How about some yellow ?


And pink.....