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The Natural World

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  • Golden larches shine in the sunlight above Lake Ann on the Heather-Maple Pass Loop in the North Cascades. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Golden Larches
  • Sea urchins lay in a pool of water at Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
    Sea Urchins
  • Saltwater from the Pacific Ocean, right, inches onto a sandbar that divides fresh water of the the Klamath River with its more briny counterpart. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
    Klamath River and Pacific Ocean
  • Waves crash into the sandbar that divides the end of the Klamath River. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
    Waving to the Beach
  • Alders survive soggy ground in the middle of a stream that feeds the Dosewallips River on the Olympic Peninsula.(Harley Soltes / The Seattle Times, 1998)
    Tree Falls
  • With sweeping views of Mount Rainier, hikers walk along the Skyline Trail, surrounded by fall colors. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Mt. Rainier Fall Colors
  • Mount Rainier looms in this telephoto view from Lake Forest Park during morning’s sunrise. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times, 2021)
    Rainier Catches the First Light
  • Sea stacks along the Washington coast's Olympic Coast Marine Sanctuary. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Sea Stacks
  • Mount Rainier, shot from a Black Hawk helicopter, heading back from Yakima to Camp Murray at JBLM. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Hawk's-Eye View of Mount Rainier
  • The Cascade Mountains loom in front of a winter sunrise, as seen from SeaTac. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Mountain Sunrise
  • The Cascade Mountains range loom in morning’s sunrise in this view from SeaTac, Washington. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Cascade Mountain Daybreak
  • Snoqualmie Falls in full swing with snow in the mountains melting causing and the rivers in the region to swell. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Snoqualmie River
  • Small pristine islands near the Johnstone Straight off of Vancouver Island that are well traveled by the Northern Orca pods.  (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Johnstone Straight
  • The eclipse reached totality at 10:19:34 a.m. [August 21, 2017] in Madras, Ore. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
    A Shot in the Dark
  • Revegetation of the former lakebed behind the Elwha dam is now complete.  The Elwha River flows at the right.  (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    A Forest Reborn
  • Trees are dusted with snow near Stevens Pass ski resort. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
    Pass the Snow
  • A red-winged blackbird takes flight from frosty wetlands on the Sammamish Plateau. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Blackbird Flight
  • Spray from Snoqualmie Falls forms icicles on the cold rock walls surrounding the falls with the base pool filled with chunks of ice.(Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Snoqualmie Falls Icy Landscape
  • Early morning sunrise with Mt. Rainier and the Kent Valley below. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Mount Rainier Morning
  • The reservoir of water for Seattle; Cedar River Watershed. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times)
    Cedar River Watershed
  • The Cascade Mountains loom above a bank of fog over the north end of Lake Washington in Kenmore. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Fog Bank
  • A New Year's Day Supermoon rises over Seattle, Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    New Year's Day Supermoon
  • Seastacks, moon and ocean, First Beach in La Push. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    First Beach
  • Freezing temperatures along the Lake to Lake Trail running from Lake Washington to Lake Sammamish. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    Ice up Close
  • Mt. Rainier glistens in the early morning sunrise in this view from the Horizon View neighborhood of Lake Forest Park. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Rainier Sunrise
  • The Cascade Mountains provide the backdrop and fog provides the foreground in this early morning sunrise from Lake Forest Park. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Cascade Mountains Sunrise
  • Spouting Horn blowhole vents seawater at Cape Perpetua Scenic Area, near Yachats, Ore. (Brian J. Cantwell / The Seattle Times)
    Cape Perpetua Scenic Area
  • This ancient Quinault Lake cedar is believed to be the biggest in the world and rises 174 feet from a largely hollow base. (Harley Soltes / The Seattle Times, 2020)
    Venerable Quinalt Cedar
  • The full Harvest Moon rises through the trees as seen from Seattle on October 5, 2017. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
    Harvest Moon
  • Giant piece of drift wood on 1st Beach in La Push. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Olympic National Park
  • Low hanging fog drifting in and out of the mountains (Beaufort Range) overlooking Pt. Alberni on Vancouver Island. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2002)
    Cloud Shroud
  • This stack of beach stones complements nature's art as sunset embraces First Beach near La Push. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times, 2002)
    A Cairn at Sunset
  • The Hall of Mosses in the Hoh Rain Forest is a short loop from the visitor center in Olympic National Park. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times)
    Hall of Moss
  • Overlook view of Diablo Lake with it's glacier fed aqua colored water. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Diablo Lake
  • A partial solar eclipse. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times, 2014)
    Partial Solar Eclipse
  • Totality is seen from 40,000 feet above the Pacific as a special Alaska Airlines charter jet is the first to experience the solar eclipse. The flight took off from Portland, Ore., in pursuit of the eclipse. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times, 2017)
    Totality Above the Pacific
  • Solar eclipse of the sun shot from Seattle Center Monday, August 21, 2017.  92% of the sun was obscured by the moon in Seattle. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times, 2017)
    92% from Seattle Central
  • Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach is a monolithic rock next to the beach. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Sunset at Cannon Beach
  • Sunsets are spectacular at Rialto Beach in the Olympic National Park. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Spectacular Sunsets
  • Snow encircles the crater of Mount St. Helens. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times, 2000).
    Crater at Mount Saint Helens
  • Peaks surround the trail from Obstruction Point in Olympic National Park. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times)
    Olympic Mountains
  • Silver Falls on the Ohanapecosh River. The river originates near Ohanapecosh Glacier on the southeast side of Mount Rainier. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Ohanapecosh River
  • Chinook Country is where the land and forest give way dramatically to river and ocean. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    West Down the Columbia River
  • The Chinook River meets the Columbia near its mouth in the heart of Chinook Country. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Chinook River
  • A spider back-lit by a white light in the background waiting patiently in the early morning mist for it's prey. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Spinneret Silk
  • Early morning fall light streaks across the mist rising from Pine Lake on the Sammamish Plateau. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Misty Pine Lake
  • At sunrise, low autumn light catches the mist rising off Pine Lake in Sammamish. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times)
    Autumn Sunrise
  • Brothers, a prominent pair of peaks in the Olympic Mountains, stand out during an evening’s sunset in this view from the Kirkland waterfront.  (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Olympic Sunset
  • It promised to be a once in a lifetime event, but Venus transiting the sun might best be seen in someone else's lifetime.  Clouds obscured the sun forcing the cancelation of many viewing parties.  Still, for the moments when the clouds parted the spec on the sun that was Venus was visible. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times, 2012)
    Transit of Venus
  • Ariel view near Barrow of the flooded tundra with the never setting sun shining through fog that sits on the Arctic Ocean. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Above the Arctic Circle
  • The sun sets amid a wash of brilliant color near the edge of Bering Sea ice floes. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    On the Bering Sea
  • A 20-mile-long mass of sea ice drifts over the Bering Sea fishing grounds. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Sea Ice
  • Hikers on their way to Camp Muir pass by the Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier during an early morning climb. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier
  • Hikers walk up the last pitch of volcanic ash and pumice from the 1980 eruption before reaching the 8,350-foot elevation and the edge of Mount St. Helens' crater. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2006)
    Volcano Hiking
  • Looking at the sky atop Table Mountain with members of the Table Mountain Star Party watching and waiting for the Perseid Meteor's to fall. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2010)
    Perseid Meteor Shower
  • Sunrise on Diablo Lake with Highway 20 in the backround.  In the far backround is Sourdough Mountain. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Diablo Lake and Sourdough Mountain
  • Foliage illuminated by the sun on the forest floor along the Thunder Creek Trail out of Colonial Creek Campground in the North Cascades National Park. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Thunder Creek Trail
  • Sunset backlights blooming lupine ad Deer Park in the mountains of Olympic National Park. The Strait of Juan de Fuca is on the horizon. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Olympic National Park
  • Olympic National Park. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Olympic Mountains Meadow
  • The meadows of Hurricane Ridge bloom with purple lupin and white bistort in Olympic National Park, Wash. (Aaron Lavinsky / The Seattle Times)
    Purple Lupin at Hurricane Ridge
  • A Perseid Meteor makes its entrance into Earth's atmosphere, burning up for all to see from Table Mountain near Ellensburg. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2016)
    Streaking Across the Sky
  • The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with the Brooks Range in the distance, is visible across the sea ice from Barter Island in Alaska. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times)
    Arctic Refuge
  • Looking across Swift Creek Reservoir near the base of Mount St. Helens. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Swift Creek Reservoir
  • Photographed at sunset, Deception Falls rush under Highway 2 near the summit of Stevens Pass. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Deception Falls
  • Dropping 620 feet from its origin on Larch Mountain, Multnomah Falls in the Columbia Gorge is the second-tallest year-round waterfall in the United States. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Multnomah Falls
  • A giant boulder left from Ice Age floods still sits along Highway 172 near the town of Mansfield, a few miles from Steamboat Rock. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Glacial Debris
  • In the Columbia River Gorge, Beacon Rock towers some 848 feet high and was sculpted in part by the Ice Age floods. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Beacon Rock
  • The Columbia River flows through Wallula Gap in southern Washington near Pasco. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Mighty Columbia
  • As many as 100 ancient floods roaring through the Northwest at the end of the last Ice Age carved much of the landscape we see today, including Palouse Falls. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Falls into the Palouse River
  • Steamboat Rock, which rises 525 feet in the flood chasm called the Grand Coulee, was once surrounded by the Ice Age Columbia River that ran here. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Steamboat Rock
  • At the Palouse Falls, the Palouse River drops 198 feet before it enters the Snake River in Eastern Washington. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Palouse Falls
  • Wildflowers bloom along the Lopez Island shore at Shark Reef Park. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Lopez Island Wildflowers
  • After years of sediment being released from the deconstruction of the Elwha and Glines Canyon Dam, the mouth of the Elwha River is forming a giant beach. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Mouth of the Elwha River
  • Near Ellensburg, geese fly past the sunset colored clouds with only a sliver of the moon showing. (Jim Bates / The Seattle Times)
    Geese at Moonset
  • Seastacks at dawn, Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Rialto Beach Sea Stacks
  • With the clear waters of the Baker River rushing below, the North Cascades National Park's border area is seen running due North. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    North Cascades Baker River
  • Wildflowers and Goode Mountain and Goode Glacier in one frame.  (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Wildflowers and Glaciers
  • A Bigleaf maple shows its autumn yellows in the wet environment of the Hoh Rain Forest at Olympic National Park in Forks, Washington. (Tom Reese / Seattle Times)
    Hoh Rain Forest Maple
  • Near Foster Island in the Washington Park Arboretum a feather rests on a skin of ice rimming Lake Washington. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times)
    Ice Feather
  • Alpenglow on Mount Rainier, as seen from the Paradise recreational area, is a gift of winter light. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times)
    Mount Rainier Alpenglow
  • The Milky Way illuminates the night sky from the Meadows campground in the Okanogan National Forest. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Starry Starry Night
  • The Elwha River inside the Olympic National Park. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    The Elwha River
  • Wind blows spray off the top of breakers on a sunny winter morning after a storm at Hobuck Beach near Cape Flattery. (Brian J. Cantwell / The Seattle Times)
    Hobuck Beach Ocean Spray
  • Dark clouds loom over the Cascade Mountain range on in this autumn view from Lake Forest Park. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Clouds Over the Cascade Mountains
  • An antlered buck, photographed in a field of wildflowers at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
    Antlered Buck
  • The tide comes in around driftwood on Rialto Beach in Olympic National Park. (Kristin Jackson / Seattle Times)
    Rialto Beach Driftwood
  • Rain drops are slowly released from plants that act like sponges. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Rain Drops Keep Falling
  • A circular tube like web of a spider found along the River Loop trail. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Tangled Sunlight
  • Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park is deep and cold but not bottomless. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Deep Lakes Deep Blue
  • Dripping mosses hanging from a tree totally consumed by moss along the Hoh River Trail, Olympic National Park. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Mossy Tree
  • Hole in the Wall, reflected in a tidepool, Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    A Nice Hole in the Wall
  • Lake Mills, seen from the air in this photo, was created with the construction of Glines Canyon Dam in 1927. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Lake Mills
  • Kayakers paddle in the teal-blue waters of Lake Crescent, in Olympic National Park. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)
    Crescent Kayakers
  • Shoveler’s Pond, in the former landfill area of Lake Washington’s Union Bay. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Shoveler's Pond
  • Plant-life along the Hanford Reach's shrub-steppe along the Columbia River. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Hanford Reach Shrub-Steppe
  • Bridal Veil Falls is the reward for an uphill hike near Index along the trail that leads to Lake Serene. (Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times)
    Bridal Veil Falls
  • Lenticular or "cap clouds" form around Mount Rainier, often signaling a change in the weather. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
    Mount Rainier with Cap Clouds
  • Aerial view looking up the Elwha River that was blocked by the Lower Elwha Dam (the dirt berm) creating Lake Aldwell. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Elwha: Roaring Back to Life
  • The beautiful, wispy Marymere Falls is reached via a .9-mile trail from Storm King Ranger Station, at the edge of Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times)
    Wispy Marymere Falls
  • In the Snoqualmie Valley near Fall City, The fog lifts to reveal a landscape covered with water from the flooding Snoqualmie River. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
    Snoqualmie River Valley Fog and Flooding
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