Nancy finished but John is behind

Sunday, Sept 1 She started like this
I spent a good amount of time yesterday finalizing the blog and posted it before retiring. Now, today I have been up since 5:30 a.m. and I need to take a nap for sure. (I never did). I hope John is okay working in the hills. It’s supposed to go to 90 here, but shouldn’t be as hot where he is at Denny Creek west of Snoqualmie Pass and north of I-90. It went to 96. My birthday was nice and I stayed in the a/c until the evening when John returned. Today was mostly rock moving for them, but he has a cool story of a butterfly he met. The photos below are not his (whose then?) so follow the link and learn of his encounter. Click on the photos for the larger view.

A brightly colored orange and brown Butterfly; a Satyr.
Bright colors of the topside of the Satyr
A Satyr's underside is more camouflage browns - light to dark and has a white mark like a comma.
Subdued colors of the Satyr underside; note the white marking.

Read of the encounter with the Satyr Butterfly at Denny Creek.

. . . and that will have to do for the moment.

We, meaning a WTA crew, worked hard today (Sept. 7th) carving a short bit of totally new trail on a forested side hill of the ever wet Cascades. I was planning on early Sunday to get the totality of Nancy’s musings fixed up and posted. However, WTA has had a large sign-up for Sunday on my side of the Cascades and it promises to be a beautiful day. I’ll leave at 7 A. M.
We’ll get the full write up, links, and photos on-line late Sunday – that is the plan anyway – so look back on Monday.
Thanks, John