A few months ago several of us writer friends hatched a plan to meet in Idaho at a cabin on a lake owned by the family of one of us. Unfortunately, that plan fell through—a husband's broken femur and a mother's death the sad derailing factors—but I had my plane ticket to Seattle, where I was going to meet my sister-in-law Patty and then we would have driven together the five hours to Idaho. And back. Couldn't let that ticket go to waste. So I came up anyway, and the two of us have been writing and otherwise enjoying ourselves thoroughly (walks, movies, good food, a reading) right here in Seattle. Here are some photos I've taken, nice mementos of yet another fun visit with a couple of my favorite people on the planet. (As always, click on the photos to see them large on black.)
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| On the flight up, we flew over Crater Lake, and that's Mt. Shasta in the distance |
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| One day we checked out Geocaching HQ, in the offbeat Fremont District—whose motto, appropriately, is De Libertas Quirkas (Freedom to be Peculiar). |
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| One of Fremont's quirky landmarks (see its story here) |
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| And then there's the Fremont Troll, lurking under the Aurora Bridge |
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| A piece of the Berlin Wall, installed in 2001, in honor of the 31 American servicemen who died in the Berlin Airlift (including one Seattleite); it's 4 feet wide by 12 feet tall |
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| Waiting for the Interurban by Richard Beyer (1979) |
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| One of the eight geocaches we found on our little walking tour around Geocaching HQ: Chairy Tree, in a beautiful purple leaf cherry tree (Prunus cerasifera): yes, it's in plain sight, but hanging high overhead |
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| Here it is in hand |
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| Sunday morning is walk-the-dog-at-the-off-leash-dog-park day, which brought us to some beautiful sites |
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| Binoculars are always at the ready |
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| The dog in question: Greta, such a good girl |
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| More dogs (and a canoe put-in across the way) |
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