A fact of life

Let's face it.  It is wet in the PNW.  There are a lot of gray gloomy days and a lot of rainy days.  We don't really expect sun before July 4th.  It isn't good to get our hopes up.

That is a small price to pay for the beauty that we endure.  We get to go to places like Multnomah Falls, the Columbia River, Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, and Devil's Punchbowl just south of Lincoln City.  We have Mount Hood on our east which is a vista that never fails to mesmerize me.  We have Mount St. Helen mostly north of us, and on clear days we can still see her cropped top.  We can't forget the little things, too, that brighten our days.