Day 26: There are few places in western Washington where you can find a view of Mt. Rainier unimpeded by telephone lines and poles and unmarred by human construction without committing some form of trespass, however minor it might be. A certain bend in a quiet dead-end road which arcs around the south side of Lawrence Lake is one of them. You may have to reach up tall and hold the camera above your head to keep the blackberry vines from invading the lower portion of the frame, but you have the liberty of time for few folk other than the residents ever pass this way. There is no McMansion hogging this view, only a tumbledown old stone cottage, now overgrown with ivy so heavily that the structure is almost completely engulfed but for its empty windows. And stranger yet, the homes further on are not particularly elegant, but then, they do not have the view and face the lake instead. One wonders why developers haven't exploited this corner of beauty, spoiling it for the rest of us. For now, we can be thankful that it is nearly as pristine as it was when the Longmires settled in the area a hundred and more years ago.
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