{"id":533,"date":"2019-10-27T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2019-10-27T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:51:13","slug":"road-trip-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/road-trip-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip, Part One…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Glimpses of community…<\/h3>\n

We are just home from our road trip around the Olympic Peninsula and the wild coast of Washington, a month of easy-going travel. \u00a0We left on a rainy morning, with just hints of the Fall color to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

This time I decided to focus my picture taking on the details, the overlooked and quiet things in places of big vistas. \u00a0All pictures were taken with my iPhone camera, or my iPad camera\u2014I used both\u2014dealing with dodgy internet, sparing use of electricity\/batteries in the more basic National Park campgrounds, and often buffeting wind.<\/span><\/p>\n

We revisited the Elwah River Restoration project, where two old dams were removed to restore environmental and river health, salmon runs, and renew the cultural importance of a free running river to tribal cultures. \u00a0This has been a huge project, and one very close to my heart. \u00a0The Elwah runs free now, and salmon are returning, the estuary is rebuilding. \u00a0This confirms for me that Nature wants to heal and thrive\u2014especially when we get out of the way.<\/p>\n

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The community has built a wonderful information center, displaying the history and progress of the project, surrounded by art tiles created by the local children.\u00a0 Wonderful! \u00a0This is just a taste…<\/p>\n

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Western Washington is slug country. \u00a0Our native Banana Slug is big\u2014they can reach 6-8\u201d in length. \u00a0 They generally eat the detritus of the forest, rather than one\u2019s potted plants.<\/p>\n

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A favorite cafe of ours displays other options….<\/p>\n

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Local informational signs began to catch my eye. \u00a0This one made me laugh every time we passed it! \u00a0\u201cLittle Dribblers\u201d, beginning basketball…it also rains a lot in this home town.<\/p>\n

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And \u201cKitchen Music\u201d just sounded so welcoming.<\/p>\n

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And near the town of Forks (setting for the Twilight Series\u2014books and movies) we found this one….I was really glad to know the threat level was low….<\/p>\n

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With the artistic belief in using what you have, what you find, someone created this…<\/p>\n

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And someone else left these behind on a shingled beach…<\/p>\n

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And, finally, one of my favorites, along a neighborhood road quite a ways from town…<\/p>\n

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There are good things out there, good folks. \u00a0What a pleasure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glimpses of community… We are just home from our road trip around the Olympic Peninsula and the wild coast of Washington, a month of easy-going travel. \u00a0We left on a rainy morning, with just hints of the Fall color to come. This time I decided to focus my picture taking on the details, the overlooked … Continue reading “Road Trip, Part One…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}