Cape Disappointment Battery, Washington

Approaching the first building as we head up to battery

windows in earth

my munchkin somewhat less enamored then i

The roof inside the first building

views of the dirt hill behind and i guess coming into the building

Cape Disappointment on a rainy day. Frogs living in the base of a former gun turret amongst rusting gears. life s mossy and gray , the ocean somewhat in and beyond the fog. marshy land surrounding the hill with it's inner fort sunken into it, underneath it , entrenched in it. it's hard to say how much of this land mass has underlying concrete construction, signs of foundations succumbed to the greeness of nature are like an ancient grave site. is that why i like ruins and graveyards- both sunken into the earth neither at the foregrounds of our thoughts or lives. This location disappointed lewis and Clark for they were sick of eating pounded dried fish. their tummies ached and they had diarrhea. Hunting was unsuccessful.  unimpressed with the Columbia's meeting of the pacific.

the approach to the first entrance to battery

one of the three exits we could access from within battery

Chapel and a few more from Fort Lawton

so we did a sunny day walk at discovery park with small camera and more the intention to walk then document or take visual note. did pass the chapel which we hadn't the first time - and saw the radar tower from behind. watch a dog chase a big black rabbit through the brambles- did not look like a wild rabbit but a big domestic house version, cheers ladies breaking leash laws. so with these canon images is a return to the 3 jpg HDR as opposed to the raw image HDR. i prefer the former to the later and have hence earmarked a good tripod as a necessity. my present tripod was given to me by my mothers mother = Tonawanda nana as she lived in Tonawanda and she was my nana. anyways it was a wonderful gift and has served me for 14 years now i need something heavy duty. that doesn't mean i am dissing the present tripod it will always hold a place in the menagerie of photographic supplies.