Encounters with Wild Animals
June 26, 2016
One of the amazing things about our national parks and monuments is the opportunity to see animals in the wild. We had several memorable encounters on our road trip to the Painted Hills and John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Each sighting felt like luck and serendipity.
I saw this doe and her fawn on the trail in the Clarno Unit off the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument:
I saw two rabbits. One at the end of the Arch Trail in the Clarno Unit, and one under a bridge on the Red Hill Trail of the Painted Hills Unit. The second one seemed mesmerized by a huge rattlesnake nearby, but it eventually woke up and ran away.
Here is the huge rattlesnake. I’m glad to have seen this one, as I had never before seen one in the wild. But I was happy not to see more!
We saw a couple of antelope, but we were able to pull off the road and watch this one jump over a fence from a meadow, then run across the road, and finally change his mind and return back to the meadow:
And here is a pretty moth or butterfly:
Celebrating Letterpress and Book Arts in Tacoma
April 18, 2011
Yesterday I drove down to Tacoma with my friend Carol to attend Wayzgoose, a letterpress and book arts celebration. It was a small, but lively, community of artists and lovers of book and paper crafts. Several vendors had small letterpresses on which we could make our own printed keepsake. Outside, a Caterpillar steam roller pressed oversized block prints. And if you had the foresight to bring a tee shirt with you, a cadre of volunteers silk screened it for you. It was a fun event!
Easter Bunny Ears
April 4, 2010
One of Seattle’s icons is a sculpture in the Fremont district called “Waiting for the Interurban.” This piece of public art seems to invite people to decorate it in celebration of personal birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations, as well as seasonal holidays. Today, in celebration of Easter Sunday, the sculptures were decked with bunny ears.
Seeing them reminded me of my daughter at age 4 after an Easter outing. I love the way she created bunny whiskers from a strip of fabric.