tranquility

Two gloriously sunny days sent us out into the wilderness this weekend; to Staircase in the Olympic foothills on Friday and up near Lost Lake in the Cascades yesterday. I’m still recovering from yesterday, which was a decidedly harder hike than Friday’s, so no pictures or details until maybe tomorrow. Both areas were beyond gorgeous, and certainly beyond the adequacy of my words to describe them.

Today we were back to rain and gray, but took a drive across the Hood Canal Bridge to a forgotten state park for a damp walk on a pebbly beach. Two huge pink and purple starfish were washed up on the beach, waiting for the tide to come back in and rescue them. Where were my cameras, you ask? Back at the house, of course.

This past week has been restorative.