The warm days are gaining a foot hold in the Pacific Northwest, bringing more hospitable opportunities to get outside and enjoy the wild places in our very backyard. Along with warmer days comes chances to spend time with great friends, old and new, exploring new spaces and the ones we may have forgotten for a while. It doesn't take much. We don't have to venture very far to find what we are looking for. Lakes and rivers fed by the glaciers melting on the ridges and peaks above, waterfalls battering the river rocks beneath, deep amber glows of the firewood burning, ancient giants standing as groves of trees; this is my happy place...
Here are a few photos from the adventures over the last couple weeks.