{"id":740,"date":"2010-07-13T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T14:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=740"},"modified":"2010-07-13T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T14:55:39","slug":"twilight-on-the-hoh-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/twilight-on-the-hoh-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight on the Hoh River"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve been camping along Olympic National Park’s famous Hoh River this past week, and the next few\u00a0 posts will be watercolors I did out there, mostly after hikes in the late afternoon.\u00a0I could have spent the time\u00a0soaking my\u00a0feet in the 49-degree water coming straight off the Blue Glacier, but thought better of it. It’s an amazing valley, that quintessential Rain Forest Experience, surrounded by miles of\u00a0giant 250′ Sitka spruce, red-cedar and hemlock. The visitors are all pretty civilized there too. It’s as if they realize they’re in a special, almost sacred\u00a0place, and treat it (and other visitors) that way. There’s a lack of amenities, to be sure, no water in the restrooms, no power, no showers, and the park store seems to always be out of our puzzles and books\u00a0– but it’s also pure clean ancient forest an hour drive from the nearest stoplight. Wonderful.<\/p>\n

And speaking of the nearest stoplight, that would be in Forks – the little bedraggled West End logging town that has fallen into\u00a0a Hollywood gold mine. They should make Stephenie Meyers, or maybe Hollywood location\u00a0people,\u00a0the patron saints of Forks\u00a0for\u00a0their gift of\u00a0filming\u00a0the Twilight Series there. We delight driving through it nowadays, seeing every store in business and the town full of vampire-seekers (or maybe vampires themselves). I’ve never seen so many dark haired, pale makeuped teenaged girls with cameras in my life. Stores: there’s ‘Dazzled by Twilight’, and ‘Twilight Natives’, and even ‘Twilight Firewood.’ We saw\u00a0a rows of girls\u00a0all lined up in front of the closed-up high school, pulled over waiting their turn in front of the town sign, even photographing the Twilight Gas Station sign. Amazing!<\/p>\n

So, here’s my Twilight take on it\u00a0with this little watercolor of the Twilight on the Hoh River.<\/strong> Nancy says I’m\u00a0trying to cash in on the Twilight Craze, but I know\u00a0who has all the money\u00a0– pale-skinned teenage girls, and I just know one of them will buy this. Oh, no vampires in it? Well, you never know. There could be one lerking behind one of those big spruce.<\/p>\n

This watercolor and ink painting is\u00a0on cold-press paper, 9″ x 12″ and $140 unframed.
\nA nice\u00a0mahogany\u00a0frame with a double mat and glass\u00a0makes it a total of $180 and shipping adds just a bit more depending on your zone or if you take the frame. This is the original painting, NOT a print.
\nEmail <\/a>us for details.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this week.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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Next time I’ll tell you about the “One Square Inch of Silence” 3.5 miles up the trail on the Hoh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been camping along Olympic National Park’s famous Hoh River this past week, and the next few\u00a0 posts will be watercolors I did out there, mostly after hikes in the late afternoon.\u00a0I could have spent the time\u00a0soaking my\u00a0feet in the 49-degree water coming straight off the Blue Glacier, but thought better of it. It’s an … Continue reading Twilight on the Hoh River<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[34,44,54,82,86,100,118],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","category-uncategorized","tag-easel-paintings","tag-field-trips","tag-hoh-river","tag-olympic","tag-parks","tag-road-trips","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}