We took a drive yesterday out SR 503 to Cougar, just because we've never been and I thought it would be a good idea to get to know our new state~Washington. I grew up in Oregon and love it, it has everything; ocean, desert, forests, mountains, wildlife, quirky people, you name it, you can find it in Oregon (I'm a little biased on the subject). But I figure since we will now likely call Washington our home for a while we should get to know and therefore love her as well. So we had a beautiful winding drive from home to Battle Ground (I need to find out why it is named that) and through our favorite town on the trip Amboy, then Yale, and Cougar~(not much there). We stopped for a break here at Yale Lake, it was quite peaceful, a little treasure at the end of the road.
"Walked for half an hour in the garden. A fine rain was falling, and the landscape was that of autumn. The sky was hung with various shades of gray, and mists hovered about the distant mountains-a melancholy nature. The leaves were falling on all sides like the last illusions of youth under the tears of irremediable grief. A brood of chattering birds were chasing each other through the shrubberies, and playing games among the branches, like a knot of hiding schoolboys. Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail."
Henri Fredric Amiel
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The Robinson Boys
Grandpa Great, Gramps, Draper, Deacon and Olson
November 2009
