Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
Musings on cats, travel, gardens and life
Category: Travel
Reflections on the Snohomish
A beautiful day for a walk along the Snohomish River…. ~ Susanne
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Most Popular US National Park – Surprised?
I know you can google it but why don’t you guess? Of the 59 US National Parks, which one is the most popular based on number of annual visitors? My guess was Yellowstone National Park. Established in 1872 and considered to be the world’s… Continue Reading “Most Popular US National Park – Surprised?”
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Still dreaming of the Bow
Having returned from the Canadian Rockies I began poring over my pictures and noticed how much ‘the Bow’ permeated our trip with its beauty. We first met the Bow River where it flows through the Banff townsite. We followed it to the Falls nearby.… Continue Reading “Still dreaming of the Bow”
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Canadian Rockies Adventure 2016 – through Glacier to Banff and Jasper
Rocky Mountains. Craggy peaks. Lakes and rivers and waterfalls. Scenic Highways. Glaciers. Bears! This was the 4th time we made the journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Canadian Rockies and this time we went east through Glacier National Park and north to Banff… Continue Reading “Canadian Rockies Adventure 2016 – through Glacier to Banff and Jasper”
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Canadian Rockies here we come! Again!
Apparently every 10 years or so we hear the call to go north. So for the past few weeks I’ve been putting together our next road trip to the Canadian Rockies. This got me going through my old scrap books (I used to do… Continue Reading “Canadian Rockies here we come! Again!”
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Mt Rainier on a summer day…
We don’t usually make the drive to Mt. Rainier on a sunny Saturday in the middle of summer. But this past weekend that is exactly what we decided to do, heading from Renton through Enumclaw to the Sunrise side of the mountain. We didn’t… Continue Reading “Mt Rainier on a summer day…”
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It Happened at Seafair
It was a different time and a different town. There was a big airplane company but no technology. The Smith Tower but no Space Needle. There were wrestling matches and roller derby and stock car racing, but no major league sports. It was the… Continue Reading “It Happened at Seafair”
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Olympic National Park and Sequim Lavender Festival
Olympic National Park. Almost a million acres of preserved wilderness, old-growth temperate rain forests, glacier capped mountains and glacier carved lakes, wild rivers, the longest undeveloped coast in the contiguous United States. Nearby Sequim, in the rain shadow of the Olympics. Self proclaimed “Lavender… Continue Reading “Olympic National Park and Sequim Lavender Festival”
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All dressed in green for the 4th of July
It wasn’t exactly red, white and blue… more like, green, green and more green.. It was a drizzly day on the 4th of July this side of the mountains so we opted to go east where the sun is always shining.. On the… Continue Reading “All dressed in green for the 4th of July”
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Tales from Longfellow Creek
When I was growing up we lived in a house near the woods and in front of the house flowed a creek that provided me and my friends with hours and hours of entertainment. Whenever we had nothing else to do, one of us… Continue Reading “Tales from Longfellow Creek”
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