Cascade Views – Carnation

After a few days of portraits I thought I’d go back to landscapes today.  This picture was taken in Carnation looking east towards the Cascade mountain range.  I liked this image mainly because of the sky, which is odd when you have the mountains center picture.

Coming from the UK (and London at that) I never saw landscapes like this, the tallest thing near where I come from is the Canary Wharf building in the city.  We had no mountains, in fact the tallest “mountain” in England is in the Lake District and it’s a sad 3200 feet!  90 miles from where we live here in Washington is Mount Rainier, that’s 14,400 feet.

The best bit is in the morning when I drive to work I get a fantastic view of Rainier.  On the way home I see the snow capped Cascades in the distance.  Pretty good for a London boy.

Now here is a blast from the past.  I wonder how many people viewing this post actually owned a Stylophone!  I had one, and so did David Bowie – just listen to Space Oddity.  Anyway, Carter found mine and started to blast out some awesome tunes.