{"id":941,"date":"2009-10-19T02:38:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2009-10-19T02:38:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:38:51","slug":"pacific-northwest-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2009\/10\/pacific-northwest-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Northwest Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Swamped a bit lately recovering from the trip and finishing up some deadlines..but finally a chance to make a post here… :D<\/p>\n

For the final leg of our Western adventure, we quickly toured Washington State<\/a>.\u00a0 …going to several wildlife facilities and visiting friends.\u00a0 Lots of beautiful things to paint and inspiration. :)\u00a0 ( more pics here: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=111793&id=503663762&l=f19d3224eb<\/a> )<\/p>\n

Near the Canadian border<\/a>, we stopped in to see our friends who are missionaries to the First Nations<\/a>, Jack and Carolyn…very sweet..spoiled us terribly..\u00a0 Carolyn has been a family friend for as long as I can remember. :)\u00a0 (She’s also an artist. :) )\u00a0 We had a wonderful tour of Whideby Island!<\/p>\n

We took a trip with our friend Dee Dee (Wildlife\/animal artist – www.deedeemurry.com<\/a> \/ Blog<\/a> –UPDATE, link now functioning… ) and spent a day seeing animals to paint. :)<\/p>\n

It was a bit on the soggy side, but the Quinault Rainforest<\/a> was beautiful. :D\u00a0 A stroll on the wooded trail makes you feel very small very quickly surrounded by such enormous trees.\u00a0 I was disturbed a bit to see large areas clear-cut for logging nearby on private\/reservation lands.\u00a0 Farther up the peninsula, the cliffs (and haystack rocks) along the Pacific coast<\/a> are gorgeous in that area as well. ..the sky cleared from the light rain we’d had to a foggy haze with the sun..seemed magical.<\/p>\n

After crossing the sound, we toured through the North Cascades National Park<\/a> and a stopped for a hike.\u00a0 The vegetation was so interesting..I had never seen so many mushrooms. :)\u00a0 It was sunny but snowing over the pass, so we had a quick (and crisp) look around there as well.<\/p>\n

Finally, we made a stop at a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center to tour their facility and see their beautiful animals, coming away with a lot of beautiful references for new pieces.<\/p>\n

It was a bit of a whirlwind tour, and wish I could have had time to see more, but so much fun! :)\u00a0 Now..back to the studio to catch up..<\/p>\n

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Swamped a bit lately recovering from the trip and finishing up some deadlines..but finally a chance to make a post here… :D For the final leg of our Western adventure, we quickly toured Washington State.\u00a0 …going to several wildlife facilities and visiting friends.\u00a0 Lots of beautiful things to paint and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,13,14,17],"tags":[55,57,65,67,69,86,122,1571,167,1572,225,252,257,299,323,325,342,1569,383,396,412,423,429,443,1570,461,463,474],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration_researchstudy_fieldtrips","category-miscellaneous","category-off-the-beaten-path","category-paintings","tag-animals","tag-area","tag-artist","tag-artists","tag-artwork","tag-bit","tag-com","tag-dee-dee-wildlife","tag-family","tag-first-nations","tag-inspiration","tag-link","tag-look","tag-natural_habitat","tag-paint","tag-painting","tag-post","tag-quinault-rainforest","tag-seattle","tag-small","tag-studio","tag-time","tag-trip","tag-washington","tag-washington-state","tag-wilderness","tag-wildlife","tag-www"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}