It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

The sun rises over the Cascade mountains to our east, but the light spills all over the Olympic mountains to our west. We are so replete with beauty in this corner of the world.

Rebecca and I both timed trips to the Olympic Peninsula this weekend. I hung out at Hurricane Ridge and at Salt Creek. There's so much to do within an hour of PA - skiing, rainforests, beaches, lakes, waterfalls, you name it! 

The proper name for this place is Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, but we've always called in Dungeness Spit as its prime feature is a 6-mile long sand spit.

The snow from this weekend was enough to shut down FedEx--USPS even skipped delivering to us on Monday. We're expecting the snow to stick around this week. Melanie took these awesome shots from the side of the road this morning on the way in!