The Pacific Northwest has been our home all our lives. Glenn’s family has deep roots at Priest Lake in Idaho, and he grew up on the waterfront near Southworth, Washington, ten minutes from the ferry dock.

 

Susan’s family spent years vacationing on the Washington and Oregon coast and at Lake Cushman in the Olympic Forest of Washington.

 

You have to appreciate the cool color palette when you live here. Blues, greens and grays predominate; the warmer colors are rare But there is something about the misty water on a chill morning and the cry of a seagull which says: “Be aware. Life is passing -- and it will last forever.”

 

It’s a contradictory message that we find comforting. The stories and the pictures in this anthology are our attempt to express our feeling of the immediacy of joy, the frailty of life, and the longevity of this world.

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Susan and Glenn Wachtman