Discoveries Away from Home

We love discovering new places, and our trip to Mt. Rainer, Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle was a blast. Here are some highlights:

- Archer fish: They catch their breakfast by spitting water at bugs in the air

-Thousand year old trees and a tree root big enough to shelter a half-dozen people

-A suspension bridge in the midst of an old forest

-Elk standing below moss encased trees

-A sub-alpine meadow chock full of wild flowers, deer and a purple grouse

-A surprising garden of incredible beauty built in a quarry almost 100 years ago

-A perfect rose

-A poem that moved us:
"Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace
And a new hope, or for nothing, we cannot say . . .
We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
We were young. We have died. Remember us."
Archibald McLish

-A thought-provoking sign in the woods with a sentiment Katz hopes to impart to the folks at work: Change: Rule Without Exception

-Pike Place Market's flying fish

-Ladder climbing salmon

-Cindy Lauper singing the blues in a leather suit and Raggedy Ann wig

-Using GPS for the first time and loving it. We named it Mary.

-A chicken purse--We passed on buying it, but it made us laugh

-The best new reading glasses in the whole, wide world

-Time to talk, read, love, laugh, relax, reflect, refresh

-Coming home