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Musings on cats, travel, gardens and life
It’s one of my favorite national parks and why not? It has everything: glacier capped mountains, pristine lakes and rivers, waterfalls, hot springs, wild remote beaches, and the largest track of preserved old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest. Time it right and you… Continue Reading “A Journey to Olympic National Park”
In the last post I told you of our 4th of July adventure at Mt Rainier National Park, which included a ridge hike at Sunrise and a forest hike through the Grove of the Patriarchs on the Ohanapecosh River. I will complete the story… Continue Reading “The Many Faces of Mt Rainier, or 4th of July Part 2”
Sunrise at Mt. Rainier but no need to get up early for I speak of the Sunrise side of the Mountain and not the time of day! I hope you are not tired of Mt Rainier but the 4th of July proved a perfect time to visit… Continue Reading “Sunrise at Mt Rainier”
A Saturday and I woke up feeling kind of blue. Needed some green for the cure and so we hit the road heading east looking for it. After thirty minutes or so, traffic slowed and cars lined the road on the approach to Rattlesnake Lake. Oh! It’s a Saturday in summer… Continue Reading “Green over Blue in the Pacific Northwest”
Too little too late. The beautiful Tiffany Park Woods are nearly gone, the birds and wildlife already evicted, the native flora disappeared. Still, I was heartened to know someone is paying attention to the promises made by the developer when they obtained the permit to… Continue Reading “A Halt to the Work at the Tiffany Park Woods”
I simply can’t let it go. The Oregon Coast I mean. Now that I’m home and unloading my pictures I see all that beauty again and so please bear with me, while I post a few more photos, this time focused on sunrise and sunset. Sunrise first at… Continue Reading “Sunrise and Sunset on the Oregon Coast”
Highway 101 on the Oregon Coast: wild and rugged beaches, capes and bluffs, sea stacks where nesting birds make their homes, ancient volcanic rock with fanciful shapes and names, strewn along offshore, all preserved and available to the public thanks to Oregon’s early conservationists.… Continue Reading “Postcards from the Oregon Coast”
I woke up this morning in Florence on the Oregon Coast, arguably one of the most beautiful and accessible coastlines in America, if not the world. The past few days were overcast but the amazing sunrise over the Siuslaw River heralded a change in… Continue Reading “Scenes from the Oregon Coast”
After the rain showers this week, I visited the lovely Soos Creek Botanical Garden today. It was a rather spontaneous decision, made while drinking my latte at the Starbucks next to the gym where I was supposedly headed next. But the rain had stopped. Fresh air and… Continue Reading “Soos Creek Botanical Garden”
We took a day trip yesterday to one of our favorite local attractions: Snoqualmie Falls. Up the road we found the river flowing deep and wide, silently through the little town of Carnation. We stopped at Tolt MacDonald Park where the foot bridge is the best place to watch the… Continue Reading “Snoqualmie Close Up”
Cats and Trails and Garden Tales 