Lakes and Rocks

Mount Cephern (Icefields parkway)

Notice the building in the middle of nowhere .. I luv such places !!

A better view...

The best view I have ever had...period. No picture can do justice to the view of Peyto lake one gets from Bow summit on a bright day.. with the star shaped emerald colored lake and never ending range of snow capped mountains in the background.. its just amazing!!

Lake Maligne (Jasper national park)

Emerald Lake -Yoho national park ... btw .. these pics were taken @ 9:30 pm!!

More lakes... Moraine Lake

Be there @ the right place @ the right time

Photography, as I discovered is all about being at the right place at the right time! The very fact that I was @ Banff satisfied the first condition.. but checkout the difference in the snaps of the same place (Louise lake in Banff National Park) at 5 in the morning (the first 4 pics ) vs 4 in the evening (the last pic) to appreciate the significance of the second part of the condition!!

Picturesque

Quite some time now since I posted anything lush green..a picturesque landscape... after all thats what is "at its best" all over WA... wall paper stuff is what I am referring to here..You would be surprised to know that most of windows wall papers (infact almost all Vista wall papers) come from either Washington or Oregon state. Most of coastal pictures are from Oregon while anything green u see are from WA. Here are two such pics .. basically my attempts to get atleast my own wall paper.. first from WA and second from OR coast... the second one is currently my Vista wall paper.. coz I luv its simplicity

Panorama

Panoramic views of some breath taking views .. click on each and keep scrolling your window horizontally....

(For some reason.. blogger does not display pictures in their full size if they are too large! so bear with half a window of display)

Mt Hood

Crater Lake

Heavenly Abode

Bored of staying confined in a hotel room for too long..no matter how posh .. how elegantly stylishly luxurious with its interiors.... it is still a cell like room from outside!! So, I went in search of some houses with exteriors that would suit my choice and here are a couple of them I found interesting.

The first one I chose as my winter guest house, given that it would remain equally green in this evergreen state... the water may just be frozen.. which i feel only adds to the beauty and here it is

For the summer, I would probably choose a simpler one.. with a simple entrance

I don't need a red carpet.. this would do...

And again, I do not want to miss the colors... So some trees like these by the side of the path way

Leading to the house....

Located here!!!
(best viewed large by clicking on the image)

Lake Alder

Lake Alder is the first among many lakes we got to see at the base of Mt Rainier. Engineers in US have this strange habit of constructing dams for lakes in hilly terrains to effectively harvest rain water at a much larger scale than we plan to do by collecting water from terrace drains ;).

Here is how the one on Alder looks like....

The lakes do not tolerate this inhuman (or shud i say human ?) oppression imposed on them and decide to vent out their frustration by waging an invasion on the poor and helpless flora neighboring them, like the barbaric invader Alauddin Khilji, who beheaded the beautiful harmless idols at Belur.

The result is here for you to see...

Yet another lake on the way....this time serene and peaceful without a dam