Wonderful Family Hike

On the spur-of-the-moment we decided to go for a hike Sunday. It was a gorgeous, hot summer day spring day. We were going to be in the North Bend (Snoqualmie Falls) area, which isn't too far from where my brother and his family lives. So we asked them to join us.

Twin Falls on Snoqualmie River

This is my nephew, isn't he cute? Here we go, up through the woods.

 

 

 

We made it.

 

 

 

 

 This is where we should have stopped. But the trail kept going so we kept going. We hiked two more miles up and I mean up. We finally ask what we were hiking to ....

an other entrance, basically a parking lot. No rainbow,  no fairies,  no pot of gold, no gorgeous view just a parking lot. *sign* So we headed back down.

When we made it all the way down a little rest was in order.

 

 

 

All in all it was a good hike.

My brother, son, daughter, husband, sister-in-law and nephew.

 

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Old Railroad Bridge Park

My daughter and I went for a walk after school on Monday. We walked from my school to the park and back. It's about 4 miles round trip. As you can tell it was a beautiful afternoon.

This is an old railroad trestle that goes over the Dungeness River.

 

 

Bird feeder near the education center.

 

Making our way back across the bridge.

 

The Dungeness River with the Olympic Mountains in the background.

 

A little background on this picture. When my daughter was about two it would take us what felt like two hours to go about two feet.  This is because she had to stop and pick up every rock that struck her fancy.  When I say every rock, I mean all her pockets would be full and so would mine. She is now 12 years old and guess what, she still collects rocks. Lucky she is more selective.

 

On our way back we found this oddity. That is 11 flowers on one stem.

 

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Pioneer Memorial Park

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This little park in the middle of town is full of spring flowers. I walked around for about an hour taking pictures, using different setting on my camera. These were the best ones.

Can you believe these two pictures are from the same plant? Different camera settings.

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Walk along the Strait of Juan de Fuca

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