I have always loved wild places, and we certainly have many right within a day's drive of my home in Western Washington State. In Eastern Washington, the landscape shows the effects of glaciation in the last Ice Age, over 10,000 years ago. Much of the land was a huge lake called Lake Missoula, covering much …
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Living here in the Pacific Northwest, we are simply surrounded by blue and green. Washington is the Evergreen State for a reason! Driving down Highway 530 on the way to North Cascades National Park, tall trees line both sides of the road, and the late afternoon light makes them look more than one shade of …
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On Sunday, Hubby and I went to our very favorite park, Tumwater Falls Park in Olympia, which is a long way from our home in Everett. The park was closed much of last year, but has now re-opened, and we could hardly wait to get there! Well, the park looked even better than it did …
Hmmmmm... I said to myself. This one will be difficult (imagine the Sorting Hat talking to Harry Potter). What is a spot? A place (garden spot, a picnic spot); a stain on your clothes or your hand (Out, out, Damned Spot! said Lady MacBeth); or just something roundish. And, what is a dot? A period …
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I just posted two new videos over at Rumble. Both are from our trip to South Dakota last year. Links below. Let me know here how you like them! You need to be a Rumble member, so you can comment and like them there. Thanks! Video #1, This is America Video #2, This is America
We live just south of the North Cascades National Park, so we take day trips up there a few times a year. The highway through the park is closed all winter, due to the high elevation, heavy snowfall, and less need (there are two other cross-state highways for big trucks to use). The road just …
I admit it, I have ten brown thumbs. I am not fond of yard work, and know very little about plants, or gardens. But I know a pleasant garden when I see one. If I can keep my mind off all the backbreaking work involved in maintaining a garden, I find them quite relaxing. The …
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Our Tennessee trip ended on a pleasant note. We made it to the airport in plenty of time, turned in the rental car, checked our bags, and sauntered over to our gate to wait. It turned out that their PA system was out, so the poor gate agents had to shout instructions. Through their masks, …
After the Hillsdale seminar was over, and the Ricochet folks had dispersed on Wednesday night, we had a day to visit Nashville proper. For the first time that week, we slept late on Thursday, and when we awoke, it was raining pretty hard outside. Not that we are not used to rain! We live in …
Last Wednesday, April 28, was our big Ricochet Meetup day, and it started in the morning when Phil Turmel and his wife Patricia picked us up at our hotel for the drive to Lynchburg and a tour of the Jack Daniels Distillery. Stad and Neutral Observer were already in the big Suburban, so Ray and …
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