MT. WASHINGTON RANGE

For the first time, a full view of Mt. Washington range from Campbell River,B.C. and looking south.

"You are not in the mountains. The Mountains are in you..."

                                                                                                                  -John Muir

"Mountains know secrets we need to learn..." -Tyler Knott

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds..." -Robert Green Ingersoll

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. may your mountains rise into and above the clouds..." -Edward Abbey

"And into the mountains I must go, to lose my mind and find my soul..." - John Muir

“May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” - Harley King

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” -Kahlil Gabran

44. “Although I deeply love other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” – Victoria Erikson

Photographs 2026

 

Driving CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.

"In our town there is a secret spot                                                                                                                                                                                                     (Blood Moon)

where you can still see the stars at night,

believe it or not.                                                                   ( the Campbell river)

It is the only spot like that left,                                        (Alder Street)

unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers

dwindling by.                                    Mt Washington range                         (downtown)

(looking south)

It is a good place to walk...

                                                   

and talk in whispers.

(quadra island)

Following the little hill that rises from the park, to a small clearing..." -Joe Meno

"Vancouver Island, where the wild things are..." -Maurice Sendak

                                                 

"The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers." - Shannon M. Mullen

(coast mtns)

Photographs 2026 

 

LAST DAY in FEBRUARY...

FROM GITANJALI (XLIV) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 

This is my delight

Thus to wait and watch at the wayside

where shadow chases light and the rain comes

                                             

                in the wake of the summer. Messengers...

M

with tidings from unknown skies,

greet me and speed along the road.

                                        

My heart is glad within,

and the breath of the passing breeze is sweet.

                             

                   From dawn till dusk...

I sit here before my door.

                        

               And I know that of a sudden 

the happy moment will arrive when I shall see.

                  In the meanwhile...

I smile and I sing all alone.

In the meanwhile

the air is filling with the perfume of promise.

                        

Photographs 2026