End of the year

In honor of the ending of 2011, we decided to take a drive through Pierce County with our cameras. Saw lots of cool waterways that were hard to photograph and many many trashed and seemingly-abandoned houses (some should have been abandoned but actually had inhabitants). We eventually found ourselves tromping through boggy, mossy mud without slog-worthy shoes at Alder Lake. The best way to describe the location is "stumpy."

Alder Lake stumps

I just finished Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and I guess I was looking for ravaged and scorched earth to match the pictures in my head.