Amazing waterfall along Heliotrope Ridge Trail (Photo by Pam Beason)
Summer is almost over in my part of the country, so I’m taking the opportunity to play hooky whenever I can. There will always be time to mow the lawn or clean the house, but there are never enough fine days to get out and hike or kayak.
As a Kansas-born girl, the amount of water that continually flows through the Pacific Northwest never ceases to amaze me. Rivers, lakes, waterfalls, the Sound, the Pacific Ocean! I can never get enough. And the mountain peaks!
Mount Baker from Heliotrope Ridge Trail with Thistles in Bloom (Photo by Pam Beason)
This winter I will no doubt get more philosophical and want to write more about the craft and business of writing, but for now I’m catching every last day of sun that I can.
I’m doing research for my mystery novels; my protagonist Sam Westin lives for the wilderness. After all, an adventure writer must have some adventures.
I also find beauty in Kansas wheat fields and Oklahoma rock cliffs and southern swamps and city parks and back yards. Anywhere there are plants and insects and wildlife. Anywhere that breathes.
Are you out enjoying whatever brings you joy? I hope so. There will be plenty of time for cleaning house and writing during this winter.
And you never know what the future will hold. If you were clobbered by a garbage truck tomorrow morning, what would you regret not doing? Go do it!
Love the pictures. I don’t have the stamina to hit the trail, so I have to live these adventures vicariously! Thanks for sharing. I wonder if we in the Pacific Northwest are going to skip the wonder of a glorious autumn. It seems like winter is here with its bountiful rainfall. Kinda cozy.
Thank heavens we all have different needs and different adventures–who wants to read about what she does every day? If thundering hordes of people were exploring the woods, I wouldn’t want to be there with them!
That rain is no doubt one reason why there are so many writers in the Pacific Northwest, so I do appreciate it for that reason. And I ALWAYS appreciate that our precipitation is rarely snow.
–Pam