Glass Forest

Day 138: When improvements were made to the Administration Building at Longmire (Mount Rainier National Park), one of the features added was a thick glass door mounted approximately six feet inside the heavy timber rear entry. I believe it functions largely for weatherization, providing a certain degree of insulation against the cold drafts which always used to sneak through every available chink in the log-cabin construction. In any event, it is a work of art, the glass etched with a forest scene, a small section of which is shown here, backlit by the overhead lights in the narrow hallway. In my fancy, a flock of crows flies above the foreground trees.