Point Defiance Park, Tacoma

Benjamin, Samuel, Roger and Mary in front of moss covered cedars.

Samuel poses by the Point Defiance Marina sign on a rare sunny day in January.

In January, Samuel and I flew back to Seattle with Benjamin to return him to his second semester at University of Puget Sound.  It gave us an opportunity to visit with my parents and brother and sisters. After a typical downpour, the sun peeked out, and my sister Alyce decided we should drive around Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, the largest urban park outside of Central Park in New York City. The sun came with us as drove around the park. We stopped for vistas over Puget Sound and marveled at the size of the old growth forest.  And we visited Fort Nisqually, the original outpost of the Hudson Bay company in the Seattle/Tacoma area.  I have been to Fort Nisqually several times and always learn something new from the volunteers that dress in period costume and talk about life in the mid 1800s in the untamed Pacific Northwest.

Alyce at base of huge old growth cedar