Sea Side Excursion

it was time for a well needed holiday

give your stress wings and let it fly away

Terri Guillemets

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for 4 days and 3 nights 

we stayed here last weekend

historic Hungry Camp Cottage 

on Long Beach Washington

loved the charming red floors

day tripped across the mighty Columbia River

to Astoria, Oregon

it is just over 4 miles long

and built to withstand 150 mile an hour wind gusts

.. because sometimes it does that here!

The Astoria - Megler Bridge

views from the bridge are stupendous

gigantic ships look like tub toys

never a ship sails out of the bay

but carries my heart as a stowaway

Roselle Mercier Montgomery

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it's always our self we find in the sea

ee cummings

Anna's crazy sense of humor

.... ok .... 

so we had to turn around 

and do a slow drive by 

so Anna could capture this guy.....

pretty much sums up the pace of life on 

Long Beach, Washington

Willapa National Wildlife Refuge

isn't this the sweetest?

the Salmon Art Trail

fabulous .. tallest feather is at least 8 feet tall

mudpuppy salamander

hike through the enchanted forest

old growth trees

ferns

wild flowers

I never saw a discontented tree

John Muir

it is not so much for its beauty 

that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts

as that subtle something

that quality of air that emanation from old trees

that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit

Robert Louis Stevenson

well that was about it

we puttered

and feel revived

...

take a rest

a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

Ovid

♥