What is so special about Seattle? This is a question I get asked a surprising number of times every year. And it is not just directed at Seattle, but at the entire NW---GIVEN ALL THAT DAMN RAIN! It is asked, almost without exception, by people who have never been here. Everyone knows the old statement about Art and pornography: “I can’t define it but I know it when I see it!” Well Seattle and the NW is kind of like that. The other day I was on a roof in downtown Seattle using my new Fuji S2700 and took this picture of Mt Rainier. Like I said---I know it when I see it.
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Hi CHarles: Quite spectacular ! We see it quite clearly! Hvae a great one. Gay
Absolutely gorgeous.
I now know why folks like to live in the Seattle area.
Gay, thanks even on a grey day the mountain can still be out
Keisha, thanks
Don, and this is just one tiny reason :)
I must have 500 pictures of Mt Rainier. I summitted the same year my grandson was born and since he could talk he has called it "Grandpa's Mountain." I must have encouraged that somehow.
Charles, Absolutely a gorgeous shot!
I remember the awe I felt when Rainier finally showed itself when I was out there in June. My photo unfortunately does not compare. That is one perk of this job though, the view from the roof can sometimes be the best part of the inspection.
Glenn, there have to be an incredible number of pictures of Grandpa's Mountain on the planet
Bill, thanks
Jim, and there are inspectors that won't go on roofs---they don't know what they are missing :)
Charlie,
Great shot, it brings back many memories. Growing up in Seattle it never stopped amazing me how Rainier and the Olympics seem to move closer and farther away depending on lighting and air quality. I grew up where the Olympics and Shilshole bay was my front room view. Later I had Rainier at my Kitchen view.
Thanks for sharing
I'm glad you have an eye for the beauty around us...
Are you ready for Christmas yet?
Paul
Thanks Don---so what drove you to the East side?:)
Paul, I work at having a camera with me when I am at the right place at the right time.
Charlie,
The biggest problem I have with your dear city is that traffic. I don't like it and I will never get used to it.
Talk about stopping to smell the roses! Gorgeous shot and what I moment of peacefullness amongst your busy day. Seattle is a wonderful place - I love visiting!
I've been to Seattle and it is definitely a beautiful city. Puget Sound, the view of Mt. Ranier and the wharf area are all so spectacular.
Gorgeous. How I would love to wake up to that sight every morning . . .
This is a gorgeous photo. When I saw the word "Fuji" I thought it was Mt. Fuji for a minute.
Steve, you do get used to it---and you learn when to drive---and check the traffic cameras :)
Anna, thanks---beauty is always lurking
Craig, and that is just the tip of the iceberg
Richard, so do I :) But for the clouds.
Jane, I didn't think of that---could see where that would be confusing.
Charles I came through there some 30 to 31 years ago. I hiked in the Olympic National Park. Canoed up Ross lake and then back packed back through the Cascades. It was the hardest trek of my life. I had to change my rout due to snow fields and even then I had to cut a trail through some snow. I then had to cross an icy river (very fast) hanging onto a wire strung across it.
It was a lot of fun. Oh to be young again.
Gene, how about a repeat next summer? :)
Great shot! That looks so much like Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador. We called it Chimbo. It's one of my favorite mountains in the world. Just under 21,000 feet high, and always snowy.
From the other side it looks like a perfectly round pile of snow.
From this side like Ranier!
What a beautiful shot. I was out in Seattle many years ago on buisness with Boeing. I was lucky enough to see the beauty of that mountain while there. No rain either.
jay, that is cool---they do look similar
Diane, it never rains here :)