Mount Adams

Moun·tain : mount(ə)n : [noun] : a large natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill.

Yesterday, a good friend and I traveled up to the high country near our home town in east Lewis County WA. The day started very overcast.  By the time we ate our picnic lunch at TakhLakh Lake at shy of 4,400′ in elevation, sitting at a picnic table in the shade, it was still damp from the morning dew and in the mid 40s, brrrr. After lunch, we drove on around a long loop through the high Cascade foothills, enjoying the roads, forests, birds, waterfalls and of course the scooting chipmunks who darted in front of my car over and over.

I haven’t posted here in many months.  Not that I haven’t been out shooting photos, I have, but I’ve also been raising a yearly vegetable garden and trying to figure out life amid this Covid-19 virus. Life here has returned to some semblance of normal, at least in our county.  Our Washington State Governor Inslee has been rather draconian about shutting down the livelihood of a large portion of people.  Depending upon the county you live in, life looks something like normal or not at all like normal.  The only thing he hasn’t been draconian about has been the anarchist riots in Seattle and elsewhere, not even having enough courage, care nor respect for citizens to step up and protect life and property.  Of course the mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan was calling the weeks long take over of a portion of Capitol Hill ‘a summer of love,’ or a ‘block party.’ She only got concerned about what was happening to Seattle residents and businesses after the protestors showed up at her house, she then got a backbone and allowed the police to take back the city streets. The Seattle City Council has been equally insane, they cut a portion of the Seattle Police budget and cut the salary of the Chief of Police (Carmen Best) and her upper staff causing her to declare her retirement after a lifetime of good public service to Seattle. I do not believe that the democrats have the best interest in mind for the good, hard-working citizens of this state nor of this country. I wish they did. What will defunding the police really look like? I believe it will look like Portland OR has looked for weeks now except on steroids. I also do not believe we are being told the truth about this Covid-19 virus. Not I, nor anyone I know, knows of anyone who has had this virus, do you? If you do, I pray they have recovered and if you have lost a loved one or friend I am truly sorry, for I know people have and are suffering.  But if you crunch the numbers of Covid deaths (if you believe that number) by the population, the survival rate of this virus is 99%…and our excellent economy was killed for that. All of that to say, I do hope you all are well, we are. I do hope and pray for the very best for our state and for our country.

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Blessings,