I typically walk at the Brightwater sewage treatment plant several times a week. It’s one of those places where if you don’t live here it sounds strange to consider wanting to go to. But I really love this area. Several years ago, King County (the county south of here) needed a new sewage treatment plant, but because of space considerations and, let’s face it, NIMBY they couldn’t get one built in their county. So they came to Snohomish county and set up an agreement to build one on our land. And one aspect of the agreement was that they would build a park for public use. This park has lots of features including a small forest—complete with warnings of cougars, small retention ponds, marshland, and groomed trails. Canada geese come here, as well as dog walkers, and Pokémon hunters. There are at least three gyms and ten or fifteen Pokestops, and I caught my first Snorlax here. I love cattails, and there are lots along the water trails. I would say Brightwater’s only drawback is that some of the trails are only feet from Highway 9 renamed Woodinville-Snohomish road which makes it loud in places and sometimes smoggy. But generally, Brightwater walking trails are a wonderful place to come walk. If you come and see a woman walking two dogs while playing Pokémon Go, say hi! It might be me.

[caption id=“attachment_1331” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”] a happy cat[/caption] It’s been a while since I’ve written. That seven word sentence says so much more than it seems. I haven’t written in this blog since October. Other sites I write for have languished even longer. This would be fine if I could say I was working on other things. But I can’t even say that. I finished working on my RWD videos in early fall and then the world fell in on me. I can’t even say what, if anything, happened. Mostly because nothing happened. Nothing. Happened.