Chip's Lighthouse by auntietk
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This is the Yaquina Head Lighthouse near Newport, Oregon.
We didn't get to tour this one, which is a shame. I hear it has a marble floor. It will give us something to look forward to on our next trip to the Oregon Coast! :)
A couple of weeks ago Chip posted a photograph of a lighthouse in Evanston, Illinois, which he used to see when he visited his friend LaTonya in that town, and called it Tara's Lighthouse. Both lighthouses were built in 1873, and are quite similar in their styling. At the time, I promised Chip a photo of the one out here.
So this is for Chip and his friend LaTonya (who I have yet to meet but like already)! LaTonya now lives about 100 miles from this lighthouse. It's a fun coincidence!
The Yaquina Head Light is still active.
Comments (36)
Mousson
Fantastic !!!
junge1
Nicely captured Tara. When it gets really hot around here I will think about the lighthouses along the Oregon and Washington coast to help me stay cool. By the way Tara, did you guys see the lighthouse on Destruction Island?
photosynthesis
Great shot - I like the softness & classic simplicity of the composition...
mickuk50
You have far more interesting Lighthouses than us Tara :o)..
Chipka
I love it when I see a gorgeous image and write a comment for it and it goes up. I hate it when I see a gorgeous image and write a nice comment for it and click SUBMIT and then wait, wait, and wait only to see an internet crash warning telling me "UNABLE TO CONNECT." It makes me cuss like a sailor in some language that only about 10 million people know, and the profanity itself deals with the anatomical bits of rather dim-witted bulls, or nasty things that come floating ashore from the Vltava river. And so after writing a comment and losing it, I've rebooted this woefully overworked laptop and I'm back to make the comment I'd tried previously. So, where was I? Oh yes: WOW! I've really come to get an appreciation for lighthouses. I've always liked them, but they were always so abstract. Then there was that one in Evanston: undoubtedly smaller than this one because lighthouses on lakes probably don't have to do the same things as lighthouses near whole, whompin' big oceans. Well, that's my theory. The first thing that drew me to this one was the nice hat it's wearing; I'm sure there's a technical term for the light-part of a lighthouse, but I've always just called them hats; a habit that started in childhood and stuck. This lighthouse is wearing a very impressive hat! And I love the contrasts of the white stucco and the darker wood (metal?) and the wonderful landscape in the foreground. This is a super marvelous image and I particularly like the little vertical window that would give quite a nice view to someone climbing lighthouse stairs. This is superb and very relaxing. The sky is nicely ambiguous too...which kinda shows how and why a lighthouse would be necessary. This is really super, and I love the idea that it's there (with marble floors!) just itching to be photographed again! Thank you for this. It's making a trip into my favorites, and I'm gonna tell LaTonya about it. This rocks!
Blush
I love lighthouses I have a refrigator magnet of a really neat one Great capture here sis Hugs Susan~