Beautiful photos…it looks so serene there. 🙂
Also, love the reference to “Big Yellow Taxi”.

It is where I have always gone, when I can, when I need a sense of healing and peace. And walking along the Canal is where my husband and I went on our first actual date, after knowing each other since babyhood. A good place to start.

How could they want to turn such beauty into a highway? What is wrong with people. Congress in its infinite stupidity alright! Thanks to the judge for showing them what a mistake it would have been. Why are people so blind sometimes? As we have said before, even one person can make difference.

Apples. Christmas. Surprises. Memories. History. I read several entries this morning, Alison, and it just makes me wish I checked in every day. Reading the words you carefully choose to share always gives my day a lift! I so enjoy that. Thanks.

Pam

Love it! Brings back good memories. beautiful photos! 🙂
Bev

Thank you for the history lesson and the wonderful pictures. I simply must get down there again for a hike soon, before all the leaves are gone.

I’m an erratic and capricious blog-hopper, but boy am I glad I managed to catch these recent entries. The nature and appreciation was uplifting! How gratifying something so beautiful was preserved, and also that something so beautiful was created.

Ah, William O. Douglas. I think of him often, most notably when I purchase my Douglas fir at Christmas. How the world has benefitted from this man, how much we would benefit from him today.

I walk along this canal nearly every day on my lunch break. You should see it today! It is gorgeous.

An apt description of the workings in government..at times anyways.
The pictures are breathtaking!
Thank you for sharing them.