These are pictures from a place called Quicksilver Lodge, a quaint old accommodation in northeast of Mount Rainier in Washington. It’s at the foot of Crystal Mountain if you’d like to know exactly where it is.
What first caught my eye when we were parked outside this building were the floral designs that adorned the building. They were decorations of another time, a period gone by, just like the architecture of the place. It looked dated just like the building it was on but it sure seemed to go well with the flowers that seemed to say summer had finally arrived in this part of the Pacific Northwest.
The last time we were in the Mt. Rainier area was in the spring of 2014. It was officially spring, but signs of spring hadn’t arrived at these parts. It seemed like late winter. It was already the end of May but he famous rains of the area hadn’t wound up its season and there was still a whole lot of snow in the area. It was a cloudy, foggy and rainy day and I left there disappointed because I didn’t get to see the largest volcanic mountain of the Cascade Range. Then last summer, we were there again, hoping to see Mt. Rainier. And did I see the mountain? That’s a whole other story. (Phew! I will write about it soon.) Anyway, that was when we stayed at this place by Crystal Mountain where the Mt. Rainier Gondola is.
This post is no recommendation for Quicksilver Lodge. You might find it a bit too cramped, maybe even musty even though it has a bit of charm. What my kids liked about the place that we stayed at for one night (just to be able to try our luck to see the mountain one more time. Well, have I given it off? 😬) was the loft. The small guest room we stayed in had a narrow, little, creeky staircase that led up to a low-ceilinged loft that had two bed — a kind of cute little place for kids to spend the night in. I found it a neat idea, too.
Coming back to the art on the exterior of the lodge, here’s a closer look at the floral design on the wall. It is a post for Monday Mural, after all. 🙂
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It´s really old-fashioned! But better than plain!
Your remark in the steps made me grin. We had those for a week, yikes.
Thank you for the memory 🙂
Of course, of course. Much better than plain. And it was nice to see something we don’t see much of these days.
Those steps did add to the charm of the place, tho’ 🙂
Have a good week, Iris.
I like the mural!
It’s nice. A unique one for the modern world.:)
Thank you for visiting, Lady Fi. 🙂
…wonderful gardens that don’t require water!
True. But I’m sure they still get lots of that, thanks to the rains of the Pacific Northwest.
Funny coincidence: one of the worst accommodations (moldy, not very clean, etc) we ever had was at Mt.Rainier. The one you depict was probably new when we were there — 1983. I do like the floral wall paintings on it. We were lucky and had gorgeous views of the mountain, so it was worth it.
be well… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Oh! is it? 😁
This one wasn’t too bad. I wanted to put up the pictures of the room but didn’t really want this post to look like a recommendation for the place, so I had to mention it. 😬
The area is absolutely gorgeous!! Anywhere on the Cascade range, is. 💚💙🤍
You too, Mae. Stay healthy. 🙂
It does look old-fashioned, but makes the walls of the building look nice than if they were plain.
That little attic room is cute.
Thanks for participating Dee.
True that. And the design goes well with the building.
Oh yeah — very cute. That was the best part. 🙂
Thank you for hosting, Sami. Have a safe week.
Those floral designs reminded me of Art Nouveau. It’s beautiful. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to paint and draw on that stucco exterior. Sadly the staircase would have turned me off. I have tons of stairs in my house, but thankfully, none creak or wobble. Still, it looks like a decent place to stay.
Gosh yes! It must have been difficult to paint on that textured wall.
It was a pretty decent place. I thought the stairs added to the old-world charm. 🙂
Thank you for visiting, Elizabeth. 🙂
Lodge seems clean and nice to stay….
lovely mural, great art work….
I quite liked the place.
The mural was nice to see, a long-forgotten type of design, it was.
Thank you, Tanza. 🙂