On Sunday, we packed up and headed home from the Accordion Celebration. It was a warm, sunny day, and we were in no hurry to get home, so we stopped at Deception Falls. Deception Creek runs under US Highway 2, and there is a nice nature trail along the creek, with a newer bridge and …
Continue reading Refreshing interlude on the drive home from Leavenworth: Deception Falls
I love living in the Pacific Northwest, where the abundant rain contributes to a profusion of plant life. Here in the temperate rain forest ecosystem, life grows in many layers. Green growing things have other growing things on top of them. Take this tree, for instance, at Rockport State Park, in the foothills of the …
Continue reading Photo Challenge, Collage. One Natural, One Man-Made
My hero, Rush Limbaugh, likes to point out that, through much of human history, the natural order of things in our world has been tyranny and misery. Since humans started to live in groups, the vast majority of people have led lives that were "nasty, brutish, and short". Until very recently, human life-expectancy has been …
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