I stepped out of my car to pick something up and startled a small family, who were resting in the shade in his yard. Mother stood up but didn’t run. I am not savage.
And here is one of the young ones….

I stepped out of my car to pick something up and startled a small family, who were resting in the shade in his yard. Mother stood up but didn’t run. I am not savage.
And here is one of the young ones….

I am submitting this to Thursday doors today. It’s not a door really, except sometimes the views traveling or hiking or outdoors are doors into another consciousness… I think that hiking helps me through the door into feeling peaceful and that my problems or worries or hurt feelings are not really significant after all. They are small in this beautiful world. They shrink and seem insignificant.
I took this near the summit of Mount Townsend, looking back. There is Mount Ranier and then we had a discussion about the other peak to the right. Mount Adams, I think, because Mount St. Helen’s is not as tall….
Happy fourth and we did a beach walk.
…and now a jump, to 2005, and the Wooden Boat Festival.
This is for the Daily Prompt: sail. There is a sail in the chaos of boats to look at and masts and people… I do love Wooden Boat. And the sail by, when they all head out, is wonderful as well….
The hike was glorious in part because the wildflowers were out in force. Red, yellow, white, blue, purple, every clearing on the mountain as we climbed. Gorgeous.
A view from the top.
Taken in 2015.
For the Daily Prompt: snack.
The local chipmunks at Lake Matinenda know these friends well and stop by for a snack. Peanuts, that they will take right from our fingers. Usually I get blurs trying to photograph them.

For the Daily Prompt: sunny.
I took this on our Mount Zion hike last Saturday.
I took this hiking Mount Walker weekend before last. We are so close to so many hikes, to the forest, to the woods, to the wild rhododendrons, to the trees. That is where I go to heal, away from the current attempt to rob more people of basic health care, my poorest and oldest and most disabled patients….And then I return and keep working on local health care and national health care.
What is so bad about spending our health care dollar to take care of all of us? The next most expensive system spends half as much per person. Our system is set up for corporations to make money and it is destroying people and in turn destroying small businesses and our city and county governments cut services to pay outrageous health insurance costs.
I want to go back to the woods….
For the Daily Prompt: wheel.
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