“Daddy, daddy, wait!” Away runs my daughter to arrive seconds later with yet another animal, Bernard.

I haven’t been cycling with my regular camera (these have all been iPhone shots) but I’d better start. The skies this week have been incredible shades of blue, orange and pink. Sometimes Rainier and its flanks are glowing and I spend the entire ride enjoying the majesty surrounding where I live: mountains, trees, water, boats, harbors, skyline – it’s beautiful.

I’ve been called out more than once on my closing comments, but I do love living here.