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Kettle Falls Natural Recreation Area Part 1

In my part of the world, as in some others, we have been blanketed in smoke for most of the summer. However, we did have a clear day recently, so Hubby and I headed for the Kettle Falls Natural Recreation Area (sometimes called Old Kettle), a scenic natural area that we are blessed to live very nearby.

I am going to share pictures from our hike for the next three posts, so if you like natural scenery, then enjoy.

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Kettle Falls Recreation

Kettle Falls Recreation

Kettle Falls Recreation

Kettle Falls Recreation Milkweed Soldier Beetle

Kettle Falls Recreation Milkweed Soldier Beetle

Kettle Falls Recreation Milkweed

Kettle Falls Recreation Great Blue Heron

Kettle Falls Recreation Canadian Geese

Kettle Falls Recreation Canadian Geese

Previous Old Kettle posts:

Bike Ride – Old Kettle Falls

Today is a Great Day for a Bike Ride

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

Boldness doesn’t mean rude, obnoxious, loud, or disrespectful. Being bold is being firm, sure, confident, fearless, daring, strong, resilient, and not easily intimidated. It means you’re willing to go where you’ve never been, willing to try what you’ve never tried, and willing to trust what you’ve never trusted. Boldness is quiet, not noisy. -Mike Yaconelli

Bachelor's Button or Cornflower

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Bellflower

Freedom lies in being bold. -Robert Frost

Jupiter's Beard

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. -William Wordsworth

Jupiter's Beard

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams? -Simon Sinek

Jupiter's Beard

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud. -Paula Cole

Snapdragon

Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples – the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream. -Stephen Vincent Benet

Ageratum

There’s nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things. -Jason Kilar

Ageratum

I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement. -Samuel Larsen

Clematis

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. -Richard C. Armitage

Foxglove

Be bold enough to find the one thing that you are passionate about. It might not be what you were trained to do. But be bold enough to do the one thing. Nobody needs to dig it but you. -Chris Gardner

Foxglove

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.”
― Nicholas Sparks

Peony

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Peony

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Peony

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
― Henry David Thoreau

Peony

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

Peony

“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

Peony

“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”
― Albert Einstein

Peony

“What a small thing it seems, to walk with the one you love. To look forward to a day with them. I marvel at the simplicity of this moment. And I thank the skies for the miracle of it.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

Peony

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!