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A year in pictures

Columbia River Gorge photo by Chandler O'Leary

A year ago today our bright yellow moving truck pulled into Tacoma and turned the corner onto a new home, a new career, a new life. Here I am, 365 days later, and I’m still just as excited as on day one. To everyone in T-Town (and Seattle, and Portland, and everywhere in between!) who has welcomed me as one of your own: thank you, with everything I have.

I tend to be a list-maker, constantly looking ahead to what is yet to be done. And as I sifted through the thousands of photos I took over the past year, trying to narrow them down to a few favorites, a whole new to-do list emerged. Despite my best, most frantic efforts, I’ve barely scratched the surface of this new home of mine.

Seattle ferry photo by Chandler O'LearyOlympic Peninsula photo by Chandler O'LearyFrenchman's Coulee photo by Chandler O'LearySkagit Valley tulips photo by Chandler O'LearyMt. Rainier wildflowers photo by Chandler O'LearyTacoma photo by Chandler O'LearyPike Place Market photo by Chandler O'LearyBlackberries photo by Chandler O'LearyGray Jay photo by Chandler O'LearySnow photo by Chandler O'LearyGinkgo sign photo by Chandler O'LearyRose photo by Chandler O'LearyMt. Rainier photo by Chandler O'LearyGaloshes photo by Chandler O'LearyKites photo by Chandler O'Leary

So I’ve got my work cut out for me. Washington, I’d like to get to know you a little better.

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Edge of the earth

Cape Flattery photo by Chandler O'Leary

Item number 4,732 from the Bucket List:

Cape Flattery photo by Chandler O'Leary

Hike to the very tippity-tip of Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point of the continental United States.

Cape Flattery photo by Chandler O'Leary

Stand leaning into the wind and rain, back to the trees, discovering how sea stars and cormorants spend their Mondays.

Cape Flattery photo by Chandler O'Leary

Gaze out to open sea with the spray crashing in your ears, erosion and subduction shaping the world beneath your very feet.

Cape Flattery photo by Chandler O'Leary

And marvel at all three thousand land-mass miles extending behind you.

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