Another Hot Lazy Sunday

I thought being up here near the mountains would bring cooler temperatures. Although we are cooler than Las Vegas which has reached record breaking high numbers this week, it's still hot, hot, hot.

Therefore, today's Lazy Sunday pictures will be of cool, clear water, water, water, water. For you young'uns, that's a reference to the song Cool Clear Water made famous by the Sons of the Pioneers back in the 40s. Which, of course, was before
my time but the song was one of my father's favorites.

All day I face the barren waste
Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry
And souls that cry for water, cool, clear, water

CHORUS
Keep a-movin' Dan don't ya listen to him Dan
He's a devil of a man and he spreads the burning sand with water
Dan can you see that big green tree
Where the water's running free
And it's waiting there for you and me?

The nights are cool and I'm a fool
Each star's a pool of water, cool water
But with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
And carry on to water, cool, clear, water

The shadows sway and seem to say
Tonight we pray for water, cool, water
And way up there He'll hear our prayer
And show us where there's water, cool, clear, water

Dan's feet are sore he's yearning for
Just one thing more than water, cool, water
Like me I guess he'd like to rest
Where there's no quest for water, cool, clear, water



The Pacific Ocean on a misty morning in Ilwaco, Washington. We were visiting the lighthouse at the North Head State Park.


While wandering through the North Head State Park we discovered this hidden cove.



You'll find Sunbeam Creek Falls right beside the road in the Stephen Canyon entrance area of Mt. Ranier National Park. The waters are so clear and the air is so clean you don't want to leave.


We overshot the turnoff to Narada Falls while in the Mt. Ranier
National Park and almost didn't turn around since it had been a long
day for us. That would have been a mistake because a short, steep walk
takes you down to the base of the falls where on a sunny day you are
bound to get a picture of a rainbow in the falls.


The Wenatchee River outside of Leavenworth,
Washington. It's too bad we weren't there long enough to try a white
water rafting trip. (Yeah, like Denny would go for that!)


The Bad Water Lake in Death Valley, California. It's
hard to see, but all that grayish area is a one to two inch deep
"lake". The clumps of white on the right side of the picture are salt
crystals.

This is the marsh area of the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. You can drive for miles through the refuge where the terrain varies from basalt cliffs to marshland to
desert to hidden lakes.


You knew there had to be a sunset, right? This shot of the Pacific Ocean was taken at Long Beach, Washington.