David Lynch location scouting for the new season of Twin Peaks.
no edit friday
3-10-15
Situated in the northern reaches of Washington State’s Salish Sea, the San Juan Islands are a uniquely beautiful archipelago of more than 450 islands, rocks and pinnacles. Within this area, the San Juan Islands National Monument encompasses nearly 1,000 acres on 75 rocks and islands. Woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands are intermixed with rocky balds, bluffs, intertidal areas and sandy beaches. The San Juan Islands is one of three new vintage posters by mypubliclands that celebrate America’s public lands.
Sheriff Truman: Why are you whittling?
Dale Cooper: Because that’s what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down, not speed up.
March 10, 1935: On a slope of Mount Rainier in Washington, where a month later Hannes Schroll of Austria, the only non-North American, won the United States downhill championship, riding “a slender pair of skies at a mile a minute rate in a breath-taking swoop” down the course, according to The Times (the photo can be found on Page 120 of this issue). For reasons unrelated to skiing, Mount Rainier is considered dangerous — the United States Geological Survey calls it one of the nation’s most hazardous volcanoes. Photo: The New York Times
Oh, Diane, I almost forgot. I’ve got to find out what kind of trees these are. They’re really something.
