Truant
I took a bus out to the suburbs this afternoon to revisit a trail I haven’t been to in years. It’s along the Sammamish River, and it becomes a boardwalk when it reaches the marshy area where the river flows into Lake Sammamish. It’s actually not a river, I read the other day, but a slough, because it can flow either way: from Lake Washington into Lake Sammamish or the other way around. Currently (pun not intended) it’s flowing into Lake S.
That mountain down at the south end looks tiny in the photo but not in real life.
Beautiful. I am housesitting for my daughter (also son in law and grandson) while they’re away, and this is my first time being in the PNW for any length of time. I am watching their 4 year old chocolate lab as well, and our walks to the banks of Puget Sound to take him swimming are amazing. It was low tide with fog this morning at University Place, and the weather and atmosphere here are much more spectacular than I imagined, with the air coming in from the water, the trees, the vistas. I can’t capture on my phone camera the feel of the place. My daughter told me about how great it is here, so now I know what she loves about it. I didn’t make it in time to go to Mt. Rainier with them for my grandson’s first birthday trip before they left, but I have a whole new appreciation for Washington State. She was right, you have to come here and see. It’s sublime.
It’s gorgeous. I am currently longing to get back to the forests of Maine, as I have spent the last week back in the Nebraska hell, taking care of business. I need better scenery than corn.
Truth. It is spectacular here.
I am in the midst of a long visit to sister in Olympia and am really enjoying it. I love California but this is the dust and brown season
It’s comparatively the brown and dust season here too – any grass that’s not watered regularly turns to straw – but with so many trees around it still has a verdant feel. I followed the trail around in a circle, which took me to a vast meadow that’s quite quite brown at this time of year.