I once lived 15 miles from this mountain on the outskirts of Redmond, WA. To reach our home we would drive down Union Hill Road and as we approached our turn we could see the mountain. It looked as if it was sitting right in middle of the road and even at that distance it appeared majestic. When my youngest son was just a toddler and he saw the mountain on the road, he would say, “There’s the mountain of my home.”

This mountain is Mount Si. It is located on the edge of Cascade foothills near the towns of North Bend and Snoqualmie and now I live in its shadow.

It rises 4167 ft and was named after a homesteader Josiah Merritt known locally as Uncle Si who in 1862 built a cabin at its base.

In the early 1990’s, the mountain, along with with the smaller peak Little Si, and the community were made famous by the quirky David Lynch TV drama, Twin Peaks. In the summer the community is filled with fans of the series following self guided tours of the landmarks around the area and taking pictures of the mountain.

Yes Si is famous, however, most of us locals just think of Mount Si as our treasure. We have photographs upon photographs of this magnificent mountain and it’s ever changing faces; sometimes shrouded in the clouds, frosted with snow or bathe in the evening sunlight.

That’s the way it was tonight. There was a colorful sunset and the light hit Mount Si and covered it in a golden glow.

So for about the 4000th time in the last 35 years, I captured another face of “the mountain of my home.”