Carkeeky goodness
Sam and I played hooky yesterday-it was such a gloriously summery day and I hadn’t had much time with him this week, so I couldn’t resist the urge to take him to the beach instead of to the schoolbus.
Carkeek is one of our most beloved Seattle havens. Yesterday was a mulchy meander through the forest with stops to climb our favorite trees(Click on the thumbnails for bigger images)..
..and marvel at life and death intertwined.
Mushrooms sprouted everywhere, relishing their feast of decaying logs and multiplying rapidly beneath huge maple leaf blankets and mossy roots.
We snuck across the railroad tracks to our little spot-a tiny island of beach, where the river comes out the culverts and curves down to the shore in an bow that high tide widens into a lagoon, passable only by those who don’t mind getting soaked and muddy-or know the secret way out.
A spikey tuft of grass winked at me and with a little help from the Sam, I soon had enough wet sand piled to give it a face and thus, the Sand Gnome was born.
It was like a little slice of summer, real summer-not that cold drizzly mess of an end of august we had this year! So warm and windless, simply delicious to stretch out in the sun and melt into the sand.
What an unexpected blessing.