A Summer Short: Sights on the Olympic Peninsula

I recently returned from another visit to see family on the Olympic Peninsula.

It’s a place:

  • Where picturesque villages line ocean inlets

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  • Where mountains vie with evergreens for majesty

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  • Where Mount Rainier can be seen from the Wal-Mart parking lot (look through the cart rack)

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  • Where wildflowers grow as profusely as gardens

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  • Where subdivision streets resemble the forest primeval

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  • Where hikers leave stout sticks for followers to use

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  • Where large swaths of grass get beaten down, perhaps by the deer that wander the roads

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  • Where neighbors warn each other about bear sightings.

Thank goodness I don’t have a picture to share on this last point!

But my first day, the neighborhood association sent out an email on what to do if confronted by a bear. And on my last day, the next door neighbor informed us that she’d seen a bear in her back yard in mid-morning.

Where have you seen an abundance of nature’s glory?

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