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Saturday — July 17, 2010
Meet Feet at the southern most tip of Whidbey Island, Possession Point.
Saturday — July 10, 2010
Meet Feet on Baby Island at low tide.
Sunday — January 24, 2010
We had our largest group ever for the Coles Road walk.
Wednesday — January 13, 2010
Off to the State Park at Smuggler's Cove! On Saturday, January 16, Bev will lead the group for a walk at the State Park.
Saturday Jan 23, I will lead the group along the informal trail system off Coles Road near Langley.
Wednesday — January 6, 2010
A New Decade has arrived. While there is much we are happy to leave behind, it may be worth the effort to look ahead with all the optimism we can muster!
And, there is nothing like heading out for a beautiful hike with good friends to help us leave problems behind and renew our spirits! Betty led the group last week on a lovely hike alonge a little used trail to the estuary past old growth stumps with two-man saw cuts, through vibrant green mosses, to one of the few places we have where fresh water and salt water meet on Whidbey.
Friday — October 16, 2009
Our annual autumn apple pressing at Ann's was a wonderful way to bring in the season!
And our in-house-nature-writer-extrodinaire Jan Hughes sends these COMMENTS TO CAPTURE A PERFECT FALL MORNING:
"It is 7am Thursday the 15th I am walking the lower road to the ferry this morning when I look up and see, still as a statue, a perfectly formed four-point looking at me. He was standing against a backdrop of golf-course green grass, with red barn at his right shoulder. It was a block print of colorful geometry: a square of green, a triangle of red atop a box of red, clean robust lines shaping the brown of a healthy animal. After about half a minute of alert communion, the buck released me from his stare and in stately stroll, silently disappeared. Like little exclamation points of joy, cottontails hopped out of my path the rest of the walk to the ferry."
(ed: So we have to ask, does this make the early morning commute actually worthwhile? We are glad it has it's compensations, at least!)
Tuesday — June 9, 2009
We had a lovely visit with Ako to the Earth Sanctuary on June 6th, and had a chance to talk with Chuck Pettis the owner and designer of this very special place. (With thanks to Roger Britt for the photo)
Sunday — May 31, 2009
No matter how many times one has walked along Whidbey's Trails, there is always something new to learn. Susan Zwinger, Northwest author and naturalist was a guest lecturer who visited us on a trail at the Community Park speaking on lichens, native trees, forest sucession and mushrooms!
Friday — March 6, 2009
Here is a lovely picture in words from Jan Elyse Hughes:
Glorious morning: the Olympics are snow-crowned beneath a pale dawn blue sky, the Kitsap Peninsula is a brown footrest, and between me and that scene is the deep blue expanse of the Sound, dotted here and there by gulls, grebes, cormorants and goldeneye.
Remember, if you have a poem, or a contemplative or nature writing piece, please send it as we'd love to post it here.
Also: On March 7th join Ako as she takes the group on the trail at Tahoma One Drop Monastery.
Tuesday — February 24, 2009
A MEET FEET WEDDING!
When Roger and Joanne came out for the hike at Putney Woods on Valentine's Day, they brought along their minister! It's not every hike that includes a wedding, and we want to wish the couple many good years and Happy Trails!
Ann led us on a hike along the trail around the base of Goose Rock at Deception Pass Park. We were lucky that Sandra Pollard had brought her camera, and shared this picture of members of Meet Feet who came along on that wonderful Whidbey Island hike!
Wednesday — October 22, 2008
It has been a beautiful autumn so far, and Meet Feet has had some wonderful outings! Our annual CIDER PRESSING was fun, we met at Ann's and we all went home with a big jug of fresh pressed juice.
Judy led the group up to Deception Pass for a great walk, and we are thankful for whoever snapped the camera to get this nice group picture.
Next Saturday we will be visiting the Pumpkin Patch and walking near Ebbey's Praire. Scroll down to see our calendar of other fun events and hikes coming up this Autumn.
Wednesday — August 6, 2008
Meet Feet members will be meeting informally to walk during the busy summer months. We hope you can attend our plannng meeting on September 13 as we prepare for another year of group hikes.
In the meantime, enjoy the beaches, trails woodlands and waterways of our lovely island!
Saturday — June 7, 2008
Meet Feet has been walking lonely beaches — Double Bluff (south end) and Rocky Point (north end, pictured below, thanks to Donna and her camera!)
Thursday — April 17, 2008
Saturday, April 19 Meet Feet will take some of the Kettles trails to see if any of the wild rhodies are in bloom yet. We will meet at 1 at one of the trailhead entrances along highway 20, just north of Coupeville.
On Saturday the 26th Leah is planning to guide us. On Saturday May 3rd we will go with Ann up to the wonderful trail around Whistle Lake, in the Anacortest Forest Lands.
And, here is Jan's comment on the day of spring we had recently!
Blue, blue, blue of the sky!
Green, green, green of the grass!
Daffodils a compact clump of buttery yellow.
Forsythia a feathery yellow fan.
Spring colors the commute on I-5.
We will have more spring soon (we're sure!) and will go with Diana up to walk in the apple orchard at Houston Road once the blossoms are on the trees, so stay tuned!
Wednesday — March 5, 2008
Meet Feet takes a walk in the field at Greenbank.
FIELD WALKER
She knows every inch, from west to east,
north to south.
Even as the seasons
experiment with the colors of the grasses,
even as the crops rotate from one corner to another,
from one year to the next,
and even as the weeds try to distract and disorient her,
she can close her eyes and survey every inch
of these fields -- her fields.
If you want her, you will find her --
There.
Standing between her rows of food,
often a hand resting on the shovel handle.
On the long days, her chin resting on her hand
resting on the shovel.
You’ll find it difficult to disturb
one so focused.
Her lips barely moving as she talks to the land
she knows she is blessed and naive to call her own.
But, her lips do move.
While you wait, imagine.
What it will be like to be of the time
when we will all be grateful
for those who’ve been called
to be our field walkers.
Erika Sanders
July 2005