by Rich Leighton | May 27, 2014
Yesterday I was spending a nice family day/Memorial Day with my wife and kids and we went for a late afternoon/early evening hike through the old-growth forest around Deep Lake in Nolte State Park which is about 40 miles southeast from Seattle in the foothills of the...
by Rich Leighton | May 6, 2014
Not a title I’d ever believed in a millions years that I would write, but I couldn’t think of a better one. A week or so ago I was passing through Selah, WA and stopped at a rest area on Interstate 82 just outside of Yakima and within the circle formed by...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 30, 2014
“Those who charm scorpions and handle snakes only brand themselves with their own hands.” ~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib I’ve been spending a lot of time out in the desert and sagebrush country in Central Washington over the past couple of weeks, particularly in the...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 28, 2014
Yesterday I was in sagebrush country – that vast open wilderness that is Central Washington and is home to rolling hills covered with sagebrush and rabbitbrush, rattlesnakes and coyotes, crumbling basalt rock formations and wide open blue skies. Near Vantage,...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 24, 2014
Over the years I’ve seen all kinds of snakes meet their end at the end of a beak, but the other week in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge just outside of Olympia, WA, I saw a first. A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) I was stalking at the edge of a flooded...
