Mt Rainer National Park ....the jouney to the lodge..

It's a journey that is hard to describe! The info center is the tease!

Riding through the canopy covered roads just hint at what is about to unfold.

The river beds are "painted " by the minerals found in the rocks.

The rocks are obvious toys to the water that spews them down the river bed.

And being that we are humans, .... we play with the toys natures provides.

And, often the creativity of man and nature results in something beyond magnificent!

The road finally brings us to the Lodge ... OMG is about all I can say! We wander out to just beyond the lodge and everywhere there is yet another view that is breathtaking, or another tree that has a story to tell.

These branches have been scupted by the hands of the wind.

The fog is dense and engolfs everything .... but it slowy rises ... and you can't move .... because it just becomes more and more beautiful!

Fog blanketing the mountain

And, it lifts some more ....

                                          ... and the sun plays on the mountain and the fog ....

  ... and then it breaks through!

 .... and reveals the unimaginable!  But wait, turn around and look behind you ..... guess you will have to come back  tomorrow for what's behind me!