so this is my last chance to get a July posting in. It is summer. Life is good. Full of swims in the river, eating raspberries, making homemade ice cream, BBQing with friends, weeding the garden and good ol' work. Yep, even work is better in the summer, at least the parts when I'm outside in the dunes.Last weekend I got to work at the Lanphere Dunes, known as the most pristine dune ecosystem on the Pacific Northwest coast. It was a glorious day, starting with a walk through the dune forest. I had a hard time keeping up as I couldn't resist picking the ginormous huckleberries growing along the trail. As we hiked up out of the forest onto an open dune sheet I was met with the sweet, sweet smell of yellow sand verbena in bloom.
We headed out to work on the foredunes where beach buckwheat blooms (the pink ones) were plentiful. It was foggy for a good portion of the morning but the sun came out by the end to offer a brilliant view of the north coast. I love the dunes!It was difficult to leave the beach on such a sunny day but at least I had more huckleberries to look forward to on the hike back.
