Wanderers in Wonder

John Muir’s quote echoes through our minds as we prepare to hike to the top of Cascade Pass. We eat some gorp and clementines and leave the rest of our snacks in the Jeep. H20 will be our sustenance. The hike is 3.7 miles up with a 2000+ elevation gain…probably a three to four hour…

‘I think that I shall never see, A poem as lovely as a tree”. Rather than having the gentle rhyming one of my mother’s favorite poems, Trees by Joyce Kilmer, easing our peaceful way along our trail to Pyramid Lake, or Ben Cosgrove’s piano interpretation of our friend Howard Mansfield’s writings in his most engaging…

Kalaloch…the Beach. Anemones in a tidal pool. The Keyhole. Hoh the Rainforest…Hall of Mosses. A Nurse Log…growing the next generation. A Nurse Log creates a Sitka Spruce Colonnade. All the trees seen are growing out of one Nurse Log. The Mountains…Between 1982 and 2009 eighty-two glaciers disappeared from Olympic National Park. During the same time…

John Anderson, Andersonville Avenue, Forks, Washington, grew up in Forks, loved walking the beach. He became the go to plumber in Forks. Twenty years ago with his business well established, John took his beach walking to a new level and became a serious beachcomber. All of the items in the pictures that follow were collected…

Tahoma, snow covered mountain to the Native Americans, tallest peak in the Cascade Range, is an active volcano. Tahoma, unlike its sisters Luwalaclough and Amblu-Kai, has not erupted in more than a century. It is the tallest volcano in the lower forty-eight. The Cascade Range stretches south from British Columbia through Washington and Oregon and…

The Goat Sculpture. Gary Miller and Greg Crave, award winning horticulturists from Seattle, Washington, gave up the city life for the country life in Graham, Washington. They raise flowers and rescue goats. Along the way way they acquired chickens, cats and peacocks. Mrs. Willmott’s Ghost – Sea Holly. Leopard Lily. Cleophis…guess he rules the yard.…

The Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon The ‘Columbia Bar’ (where the mighty Columbia River crashes into the Pacific) has been given the nickname, ‘The Graveyard of the Pacific’. Since Captain Gray ‘discovered’ the mouth of the Columbia in 1792 more than 2,000 shipwrecks have been recorded. In 1693 the Spanish Galleon, San Cristo…

Fort Stevens built in 1863-1864 during the Civil War to discourage and Great British or Russian incursion into the United States Northwest while the nation was otherwise occupied. Fort Stevens would remain in service through the Spanish American War, WWI and WWII. It would be engaged in military action once during WWII when a Japanese…

Newport, Rhode Island founded in 1639. Newport, Oregon founded in 1868 and namd for Newport, Rhode Island. Beverly Beach – – our camp for our visit to Newport, Oregon. Yaquina Head Light House, also called Cape Foulweather Light House, off the Oregon Coast near Newport. It is the tallest Light House in Oregon A sculpture…

“Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in amazing ways”. Peace…Wanderers in Wonder.