Friday, October 08, 2010

A Fall walk (and a salmon run!) in the Pacific Northwest

It was a glorious Fall day on Wednesday!

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So Shasta and I took a long Fall walk.  When I left for Southern California last week, it still felt like late summer, but when I returned five days later, it was most definitely FALL around here! The leaves have definitely begun to change colors and fall…

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(I would like this house, thankyouverymuch.)

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Spiders are everywhere!  Is this a seasonal thing?)

IMG_7409     Blackberries are pretty much everywhere in the Pacific Northwest, taking over everything.  If we’re not careful, the entire city of Seattle will be blanketed with them… which would be a good thing for about 3 weeks each August and an awful thing the whole rest of the time.

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(But he can feed himself!)

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He lives right around the corner.  What a sweet guy!

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Bear Creek, where the salmon are running now, is in our neighborhood, so Shasta and I headed to the creek to check things out.IMG_7455   

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3 comments:

  1. Lorrene10/08/2010 5:18 PM

    Thanks for sharing the beauty. I loved the salmon spawning. That was a first for me.

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  2. c10/09/2010 1:14 PM

    You are so lucky to see the salmon. Here in the bay area I and my son have gone every year to the streams where the salmon should be and I think we've seen one salmon. Their numbers have diminished here.

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  3. Goofball10/11/2010 3:58 AM

    we had some glorious sunny days as well but the colors of the trees don't change as beautifully over here. Thanks for sharing....love the salmon too

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