Getting Outside Saturday: A Pacific Northwest Renga

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Snoqualmie Valley from Rattlesnake Ridge

Last week I was in Tacoma for PNBA, which is the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association meeting, a great gathering of independent bookstore people from a great region for independent bookstores.  I gave a talk at a luncheon in company of four other writers, all wonderful, and heard breakfast talks by four more, plus drinks galore the night previous.  My sister Carol lives up in Snohomish, so I drove up there for a night (and managed not to take any photos, sadly!), then back down to Seattle to visit my college roommate, Bob Meyer.  We met 41 years ago.  “You don’t get many 41-year increments,” Bobby said.  Amazing that we lived past 19, when you hear the stories we have to tell!

With David Abrams, Fobbit.

Ivan Doig, Whoa.

My (somewhat!) younger sister Carol, artist and teacher, and her husband, B&D contributor Mac

The tall forest.

Me and Bobby on Rattlesnake Ridge at the Pacific Northwest College Roommates Reunion conference

Rattlesnake Lake, note stumps the size of cars.

Bob and Michiyo at home

Pike’s Place Market. I’m hot.

Seattle’s wall of gum. Smells nice.  And hey, free gum.

Life Among Giants

Mount Olympus, right, as I head to Sea-Tac for my all-night flight. I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now.