It seemed each one held a bit of morning light - Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We walked through the grass - Baskett Slough #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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A place to wait and reflect - Gold Creek Pond #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Purple and gold - Skagit Valley Tulip Festival #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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A line in the sand - Netarts #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The way a forest starts, I think - Mosier Plateau #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We stood here and listened to the birds in the grass - Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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There was a waterfall nearby - Olympic National Park #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Boardwalks along the way helped us past the soggiest parts of the journey - Lake Twenty-Two #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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I told our friends it would be an easy walk in to the pond. But I had not anticipated the snow - Gold Creek Pond #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Just beyond the mountain another mountain - Monte Cristo Range #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Just after we crossed over the water here, we caught up to two hikers taking the same loop a little slower - Horsetail Falls Trail #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We'd climbed the hill past Cathedral Tree and went back down another way - Astoria #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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It stood there next to the road. It likely was there first - Olympic National Park #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The trail here was packed snow and ice - Lake Twenty-Two #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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One of the spots along the trail where there was more lupine than poison oak - Catherine Creek #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Whatever it was we were talking about before the sound of water interrupted, I don't remember - Upper Horsetail Falls #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Because of multiple rainy weekends, we'd largely missed the balsamroot, but the blooms on this trail were still early on the day we came - Monte Cristo Range #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The land dips and rises in long arcs - Owyhee Canyonlands #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The bluest blue - Catherine Creek #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The loops here are kind of famous - Rowena #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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King of the hill - Catherine Creek #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Water dripped off the rocks above where we were standing - Abiqua Falls #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Oak and sky - Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The sunlight was fierce here - Pillars of Rome #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The sunlight was fierce here - Pillars of Rome #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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This was our first time climbing up to the tower instead of driving there - Astoria #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We've been here so many times, and there's always something new to look at or think about - Mosier Plateau #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Yellow and green and blue - Skagit Valley Tulip Festival #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We had just emerged from a stand of trees where poison oak spread across the ground and threatened to overtake the trail - Catherine Creek #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Morning light - Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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A sheltered place - Catherine Creek #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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A view of the old River Mill plant - Milo McIver State Park #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The clouds climbed above - Lake Twenty-Two #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The bridge here still had that new-bridge smell when we crossed - Triple Falls #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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People watching - Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Light blue - Catherine Creek #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The hills were alive - Sevenmile Hill #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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Elderberry and fir - Astoria #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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An image of serenity, a peaceful place - Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We came for dim sum - Chinatown #Chicago #Illinois - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The water was filled with living things, all the shades of green - Hoh Rain Forest #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We climbed into snow - Lake Twenty-Two #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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A runaway cloud - Catherine Creek #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We slid down a steep, muddy trail to watch the water flow out over the ledge and down to the beach below - Blumenthal Falls #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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We stopped and looked back through a space in the trees - Mapleton #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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A barn, a bird, a utility pole - Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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The rock - Tillamook Rock Lighthouse #OregonExplored - www.ericmuhr.photo

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To see the future - Olympic National Forest #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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There were signs that others had been here before us - Granite Falls #Washington - www.ericmuhr.photo

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