Photos from The Bellingham area

Most of these photos were taken at our friends' house just outside Bellingham. The hostess' green thumb has produced an abundance of photographic opportunity, obviated by the lush foliage and rich colors. Perhaps it's a Bellingham thing. The neighbors up there have a rather impressive display as well.

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	The Bellingham marina, home of the area's expensive toys. The only reason this came out as well as it did, is the calm of the day. If there had been much wind, I'm sure the masts would have caused chaos in the picture. As it is, I think I got really lucky. The baseline here is about a foot.		An overview of the back yard of our friends' place near Bellingham. The ground's texture or relief is more noticeable in this photo than in reality. Perhaps it's because the baseline was about a foot. 11/2000
	Taken nearly two years before I got the digital camera, this is a scan from a photo pair I took on film. It certainly shows a marked contrast in quality for this kind of work and display! 7/1998		Taken behind the picnic table, this yard ornament is functional, too. It's a weathervane. Note the droplets of water? Yeah... rain.
	I was fascinated by the blue seed pods of this viburnum davidii.		This weeping beech lives very near the house (that we're facing away from). Another of those messy shots that looks better in stereo, it doesn't make a whole lot more sense. This one's a toughie. 11/2000
	Someone (Defi?) reminded me that Monty Python had some knights on a quest for a larch. Here's a branch with some cones. 11/2000		This callicarpa's unusual purple seed pod also caught my eye. The color's a bit off I think. I thought the purple was a bit deeper, not so pink. Fall plants are really fun to shoot. With leaves and flowers down, and the stems stiff and dry, they're easy targets for a single-camera stereo pair. 11/2000
	Just a sprig of spruce, soaked with rain.		Witch Hazel is the plant from which the astringent is extracted. The red stuff is the flower. This plant is also soaked with rain.
	Here's a cotoneaster (coe-TONE-ee-AS-ter) bush. It's a mess, but looks much better and makes more sense in stereo. I'll bet you've seen hundreds of these, and never even knew they had a name. Well, I didn't anyway. 11/2000		In the window of the wood shop at this end of the yard, the Citrosia grows quite happily. The shot was a little messy. Spend more time in the middle, and you'll enjoy it more. 11/2000
	Along the side of the wood shop grows this fine specimen of a globe thistle, and it even has a resident ladybug. This is one of the early images I've processed, and I kind of munged the alignment. It helps to tilt your head very slightly to the left. 7/2000		This fine dusty miller stands at the corner of the shop. It's one of my favorite shots. 11/2000
	The fennel grows in the produce section of the yard, also near the greenhouse. This is definitely one of those that looks much better and makes more sense in stereo. 11/2000		The verbena live along the driveway by the shop (we're on our way back to the house now). It grows right next to the Star Trek plant, which I'll get next year, if it comes up. No, I don't know what it's really called. 7/2000
	A detail of our hostsess' planter on the house's back deck. The lower purple plants are lobelia, the upper one are heliotrope, and I don't have a clue what the yellow stuff is. It's all just pretty. Baseline was about three inches. 7/2000		On the front deck, the hostess always has award-winning planters potted. If there were such awards, these would win. Fer sher. 7/2000
	Another planter. See what I mean? Gorgeous. Baseline was about half a foot. 7/2000		This is the neighbors' yard, but it was too beautiful to pass up. The big-leafed plant is hereby called "elephant ears", until I find out what they're really called. Those leaves are about four feet across! Baseline was about half a foot. 7/2000