It has been a gorgeous week to be out on the road in the Puget Sound area.
I'm pretty sure when the sun is shining, there's no more beautiful place on earth.
I've put something like 300 miles on my car in 4 days...
...but when this is "another day at the office," well, that's just about OK.
{ what's the world looking like where you are? }
Pssssst! - it's totally gray and overcast today. couldn't last forever. : P
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kelli g. { bug miscellany }
Another crazy Friday.
Though I'd share this little gem the hubbers subjected me to last night.
There really are no words...
{ what's up for you this weekend? }
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kelli g. { bug miscellany }
On November 11th, 1889 you became a State.
And on this, your 121st birthday, I have something to tell you:
I love you, Washington. There. I said it.
Where else can you:
spend the night in a
tree
witness the beauty of the high
desert
take a
ferry almost anywhere
all in the same state?
Check out these talented Washington bloggers, for even more PNW goodness:
(you gotta check out this video on her blog!)
Happiest of birthdays, dear Washington State!
"Multicolor Line Of Balloons Through The Viewfinder Photo Print" by ScarletBeautiful2
{ so. when are you coming to visit?? }
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kelli g. { bug miscellany }
Gonna reign in the words, and let the photos speak today. Enjoy my weekend adventures with my pal from new york.
{ what adventures have you been on lately? }
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kelli g. { bug miscellany }
On Sunday the hubbers and I decided to continue our adventures in the woods near our new home. Since we've moved back to wa-wa land, we've been determined to become "outdoor people." This is not something that comes naturally (to me at least), having grown up smack dab in the middle of suburbia, and then moving to the big, bad City for college. Nonetheless, serious hiking boots were purchased, various jerkied meats were packed, and in March, we began.
Our first few hikes went surprisingly well, with no recorded injuries and trails properly followed. We saw the beautiful, if hideously overcrowded, Twin Falls and Rattlesnake Ridge (where I seem to have developed an entirely new condition I have since dubbed "trail rage"). We even saw two big, healthy bald eagles near Tiger Mountain (actually viewed from inside the 'unwanted accelerator' on Highway 18, before we even parked at the trail head).
It was with confidence in our new found abilities that we headed east on I-90, and into Snoqualmie National Forest, in search of the Iron Horse Trail. Miles and miles of bumpy, flooded "road" later, we determined that we had no idea where the heck fire we were, and opted instead to back track a couple exits and try the well-marked Olallie State Park instead. It turns out we had hiked very close to this point our first trip out, when we decided to go beyond the waterfalls, to escape some of the crowds.
What followed was a lackadaisical meander through a gorgeous and unpopulated stretch. We periodically ducked in and out of little offshoot paths, stumbling across waterfall, after waterfall, and then into one of the most beautiful little secret spots I've seen. I couldn't help but shoot photo after photo, mindlessly trying to capture this FEELING that I was having. Suffice it to say, I ended up with mentally bookmarking this location to revisit many, many times, and with a dozen or so really pretty shots.
I guess sometimes the very best finds, are the things you were never searching for in the first place.
Oh, and if it looks like it's covered in either sap, tar, or creosote:
{ don't sit on it. }
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kelli g. { bug miscellany }
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