The good and the meh

[nwhiker]

1. Marine air rolled in this morning. Sky was blue with fluffy white clouds and a yellow sun, rather that the heavy yellow/orange ickyness of the past few days. After a week of either extreme heat or smoke, today's coolness and breeze felt especially wonderful.

This image was taken Sunday at the Space Needle cam.



2. We saw a bear on the trail this morning. My idea of nice wildlife encounter is an owl, a lizard, frog, or newt, or a pileated woodpecker. A neutral encounter is deer. Bear? Not too happy. It was right off the trail as we walked by. Dh saw it before me and reminded me to just keep walking, which we did. Two bears in a bit over a week, one at home, one on the trail. WTF? I mean, I've seen bear prints and bear scat before, and I've had people warn me of bears on the trail, but this is the first time I've actually seen one in this park... I've seen them elsewhere, of course. Anyhow.

The only sad thing? The trail dipped right after we passed the bear, so it was behind and above us and staring right at us (I peaked back). A selfie would have had the perfect bear photobomb, LOL.