Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

I'm continuing to delve into the archives and pull out photos, mostly my husband's, from our trip to Patagonia in 2020. It's good to let his art out into the world a little, and it doesn't hurt too much.  We spent about 10 days in El Chalten, hiking the hills around Mt. Fitzroy. In past posts I've shared some shots of the amazing sunrise we photographed one morning, but there was so much more. I'll pick out some of the best to post over the next two or three weeks.  Today, we'll see some photos of Chorillo del Salto and a hike to Laguna Torre, with views of Cerro Torre and Fitzroy.  The waterfall. The valley of the Rio de las Vueltas, a classic braided glacial river (thus the color). Another day we did a hike to Laguna Torre. With Dave and his brother, we always started early, and were rewarded with great light and no crowds. That's me on the right.   Dave was a great one for making panoramas, stitched from high-quality individual shots. Reflecting pool....

  A couple of weeks ago I discovered I'd never completed sharing photos from our 2020 trip to Patagonia. I'm focusing on my late husband's photos from the trip, both because he was a better photographer than I'll ever be, and so that those photos don't just sit there on my hard drive, never seen. Last week we looked at the Perito Moreno glacier from the water. How about a look from the land? (Note: in 2026, just six years later, the glacier has changed from advancing to retreating, and is now something like half a mile from the viewpoint).   We'll end with a couple of videos of the glacier calving--some huge chunks came off, about 7 or 8 minutes apart.   In a pan near the end of this one you can see the huge, clean, deep blue space where the piece fell off in the previous video.   I hope you enjoyed this little visit to a now-endangered glacier (endangered, like all the rest, due to climate change).   I'll find some mountain photos for next week!   ☕ Buy me...

I've been rummaging around in the blog, and find that I never finished my report on our trip to Patagonia in 2020. That's not surprising (I was actually more surprised to find that I'd done any posts at all, as that was the last trip I did with my husband, and he was killed just weeks after returning home). I'm not going to do a report, but I think I'll share some of Dave's fantastic photos from the parts of that trip I didn't report on.  On one day, we did a cruise on Lago Argentina, which included cruising by the Perito Moreno Glacier, which we'd visited the previous day from the land side. This glacier has been in the news because at that point, it was one of very few worldwide that was still advancing--and it is now in retreat. Read more about that at Karen Grove's excellent Landscapes Revealed blog.  Meanwhile, enjoy some of Dave's photos. He was a much better photographer than I am. We're way up an arm of the lake, and I think that we ...

My sad lack of travel for what is now approaching 3 months (!) means I don't have a lot in the photo department (I could look on it as an amazing opportunity to catch up with photo edits, not to mention the novel edits, which are coming along, thank you for asking!). But spring is starting to spring here in Seattle, so I'll share some flowers, for those who are still in winter, or those who are in our SW states, where you are apparently racing directly to summer. These are in no particular order, and are from walks around my neighborhood or my local park (yes, we have a creek with herons. Also beavers, and salmon during the salmon runs) Okay, not a flower. Also not a flower.    Photos were all shot on my iPhone 15ProMax, and generally improved a little in Lightroom (I typically end up lightening shadows and toning down over-exposed areas, and not a lot else). ☕ Buy me a coffee--or get my ebooks     ©Rebecca M. Douglass, 2026  As always, please ask permission ...

That seems a good title both to describe what I'm posting, and to explain why it's late (though I suppose my distraction came before the weekend). In any case, I lost track of the days of the week and the tasks of the day, so here you get a (random) collection of sunrises, some of which I may have posted before in trip reports.   I'm not sure which peak, but this was taken on the Tongariro Crossing (New Zealand) in April 2019.   My favorite way to wake up: in a tent, next to a gorgeous mountain. Mt. Kenya, Feb. 2024. A series of mornings in the mountains from last August. I tried to pick ones I didn't use in the trip report so recently completed! Sunrise over the desert works for me, too. Hole In The Rock Road, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah.   Off the Burr Trail Road, same national monument.  Same state, different trip. Utah Sunrise Kilimanjaro from Mt. Meru, Tanzania  I'll end with one of the many fantastic photos my husband shot one particular decorative mor...