Imagine walking through a sunlit forest dripping with water. Every leaf and pine needle glistening with raindrops. The ground, a dark cushion under your feet. Small frogs hop across the path directly in front of you. Spiders already at work spinning their perfect new webs. (Look a shiny black beetle just off the path!) A lush understory of swordfern, salmonberry, Pacific reed grass. Thick stands of bracken ferns as tall as you lining the narrow trail. And above, hemlock, sitka spruce, cedar, fir all in slight motion with the weight of the water they are shedding. You can hear the soft crashing of waves in the background and up here where you are the almost musical plink plink plink of the water.
This was Cape Disappointment yesterday. More slow walking and looking in the dense forest.
There is so much to notice.
Oh look! Over there! A path to a lighthouse.
Eventually a stop at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and a special exhibit of shipwrecks.
Then back to Astoria to meet a friend at Pier 39.
Oh Astoria, your charms are many!
Hello.
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Loving your take on Astoria. I grew up in green sponge-y territory, so what you’re writing reminds me of home. 😉 It’s not Astoria, but just learned tonight I’ll be accompanying my sweetie to Humboldt Co. this weekend…to the land of the “Avenue of the Giants.” Looking forward to a big dose of GREEN myself. 🙂
This post was better than any of the birthday cards I received today! Such beauty; such a great description of it all. Thank you!
I was just steadily catching up and swooning over art Gifts to you and trips to Oregon… Oh my goodness!!!! And, look at what a magical place… Green, I love green!!! Keep having a magical time! xxo