Life: Idiotropic

Fog over Snoqualmie Pass, Washington State

They say that "absence makes the heart grow fonder," and I can attest to that now a thousand times over.  I almost feel like the Grinch at the end of the movie.   My heart was never that small, but I feel like it's grown in leaps and bounds for this place that I used to call home.  It's strange.

I've driven this route before from Seattle east.  I've seen the green, the mountains, the passes.  I remember a few places that were pretty, but I also remember being bored and just hoping the drive would end soon.  Not today.  May be the fog was doing a special show just for us swirling like frosting near the mountain peaks and hovering about the tree tops.  May be it was trying to lure us back.  It did a good job.  And the trees in a million shades of green.  Magnificent. 

We've been doing a bit of traveling these last few years and I've come to really feel at home in Europe.  Every place is so special and unique that I constantly feel like I'm learning and being filled creatively.  It's taught me to see things differently and to appreciate little things that may be I just didn't see before.  Now we're spending our vacation time driving down roads that I've seen over and over again, but it's almost as if I'm here for the first time.  There are details I missed before, but now I see them.  And now I'm falling in love again, but even more with my great Northwest. 

Yep.  It's a barn.  Just a barn.  You know how many old barns I passed by when I lived here and didn't even really see them?  This became one of my vacation obsessions.  They are everywhere and all amazing.