Tacoma's Ruston Way has a delightful bayside walk punctuated with pocket parks, historical markers, and fabulous restaurants, some of which are actually atop pilings in the water. Once one actually gets to the town of Ruston, former home of the Asarco copper smelter, he/she finds the many new condo and apartment buildings atop the land formerly occupied by the smelter. One of them even has a Cinemark theatre with reclining seats with cup holders. Zowie. Anyway, it's a great place to walk and enjoy Commencement bay, the inlet of Puget Sound beside which Tacoma is located. I'd mostly walked here at night but one day I went before it got dark. I had no idea that when I turned around to head back this view would be there. Picture quality isn't great as I only had my phone with me.
Getting darker with alpenglow on Mt. Rainier. Sometimes I forget how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful part of the world!
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Lucky indeed! Sometimes clouds on the horizon at sunset look like mountains here...
ReplyDeleteOh, I love when the mountain glows like that at sunset. It's so beautiful, and we are so lucky to live here.
ReplyDeleteWas that smelter responsible for the "aroma in Tacoma" for so many years? Thankfully, all that is left now is the glorious view!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful view. Excellent capture.
ReplyDeleteOh, that is a breathtaking view! We are lucky indeed! I'm glad you hade some mode of capturing it.
ReplyDeleteOn my way up to Seattle last week I was blessed by heavy traffic just north of Tacoma (I believe you referred to the spot as the "Fife curves"?) and got to stare at the mountain with just a touch of sun and a few clouds. Beautiful, you captured it well.
ReplyDeleteWow. A glorious view.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLovely and atmospheric with its Amber glow!
ReplyDeleteOh. man! you just discovered this? I bet your walks will travel this path more often.
ReplyDeleteLovely capture of alpenglow on Rainier! I also think about how fortunate we are with our place in the world when I see Mt Hood in the same way. Lucky us!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous capture; you still framed it really well.
ReplyDeleteMy girlfriend and I went poking around there in the 70s, after it shut down but before it was cleaned up. Interesting industrial decay, don't you know. No walkway; we just climbed around on the rocks. Still, being out there on the bay was...enchanting.
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Yes, you are fortunate. What a beautiful vignette!
ReplyDeleteI like the walk along Commencement Bay. We have had some wonderful family brunches at Shenanigan's!
ReplyDeleteWonderful view of The Mountain!
OK, now THAT is a vignette. Beautiful.
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