Our Fair City

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I love Bellingham; today's pictures show a couple of the reasons why;

1) Nature: No matter where you are in Bellingham, you are only minutes, sometimes seconds away from stepping foot into a beautiful natural paradise.  Today's nature pictures are courtesy of Stimpson Reserve, where the lake has frozen over producing a number of cool effects.  And note: that's not snow on the ground; it's frost and ice.

2) Downtown: I love downtown for alot of reasons, one of which are all the cool and colorful buildings to look at.  I have shot a few of them and you can see them in this other blog post.  Here's a few more...


Our area also has a number of micro-climates which help to contribute to the interesting variety of pictures you'll see. For example, the official readings for B'ham are always taken at the airport. However, the airport is right in the path of the Fraser River outflow which means it's always windier and colder there. Sudden Valley has it's own climate (which is where Stimpson is) and then there's the Chukanut's which also have their own. Makes for a lot of variety. Today it was bitterly cold at Stimpson (Sudden Valley) as witnessed by the large amount of frost and ice.

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