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Spring in the Northwest often looks like this

Posted on Apr 2, 2008 by Registered CommenterChantel in , | Comments7 Comments

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Dangerous Sky - Photo by Chantel Williams 

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When I was a teenager I went through some of the hardest times of my life. This place used to be my home. I haven’t gone back there since I graduated high school in 1990. I turned my back on my dead step-father and my drug addicted mother.

For some reason this weekend I decided to take a drive and I ended up here. Next to Lake River, where I used to ride my bike every weekend to escape, to swim, to sit in the sun. I came without the anxiety, without the worries, in a completely different mind-set. I came and didn’t feel like I thought I would. I felt very little just a simple appreciation for the beauty of it all.

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Reader Comments (7)

I didn't get to spend much time there last summer, but this reminds me very strongly of the Snohomish area to the east of Everette or some of the other scenery I saw driving the Cascade loop.

Very nice photo.
April 2, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterNot Fainthearted
hey looks like an excellent place..more pics please..
April 2, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterrambler
U graduated in 90???
Damn I thought u were my elder!
;)~
April 2, 2008 | Unregistered Commentersouthern sage
All I have to say is, fucking A...fucking A! Great post, great feelings, great picture.
April 2, 2008 | Unregistered Commenter-RM
I miss the Pacific Northwest. I went to college there, and left in the mid 80s. It is the only place that ever really felt like 'home' to me.
April 3, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBruce
Sounds like there's a book in you.
April 3, 2008 | Unregistered Commentermelissa lion
oh Baby I have a completed manuscript, hook me up.
April 3, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterChantel

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