Betty and Pam’s Most Excellent Adventure – July 30-August 2, 2017
The wonderful and amazing Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, between Tacoma and Olympia, WA.
“On December 18, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Billy Frank Jr. Tell Your Story Act into law, redesignating the wildlife refuge in honor of Nisqually tribe leader and treaty rights activist Billy Frank, Jr., who died in 2014.” –Wikipedia
We didn’t get out on the boardwalks, but the entire main entry area and visitor center were remarkable.
How many froggies can you see in the leaves? (They’re very shiny things, and tiny.)
The mysterious and mystical Hag Mirror renders any countenance pallid and olde.
It was rumored that two lesbian women occupied this room in S A L E M, OR.
Stage mom (just kidding, Betty!) giving some tips to a radiant (not kidding) rapt Lily, before the show goes on.
..and today’s pillow du jour? (Amazing cloud-like beds at The Plaza in Ashland made quick work of sending us to dreamland.)
Lithia Park, the perfect place to spend the 106° day before the night’s play.
Two of us in this clearing had our very own cellist (until others were drawn), ladling sounds around us the likes of which I hadn’t heard since back in New York City halls.
Strolling up from the clearing, it seemed like the trails were magical. I’d always heard the waters in Lithia Creek had great healing powers. Couldn’t resist climbing in.
Primo seats.. and even complete with the classic bald head in front of you.
Are those silhouettes or real people? The graphic behind them re-wrote itself in a continuing morph until the play began.
All good adventures lead to their next.. back on the road again.. to reach Seattle, blanketed in the same smoke we’d driven through all the way from Ashland. But good news: it was a refreshing 92° upon arrival.
A very most excellent adventure, all in all. What a dazzling summer interlude I was fortunate to have, thanks to B. Boop, the wonderful wombat.
