Our neighborhood

Looking up the valley from our street

These are a few photos I've taken recently running or walking around the neighborhood. It's funny to live in a place where the houses are packed together and barely have yards and yet the mountains and wilderness surround us on both sides of the valley. We may not have a yard, but it's hard to complain about what's right out our front door.

We've had snow on the mountains for a couple of weeks, but today was the first day it snowed in the bottom of the valley. It's not sticking, but it won't be long before it does! I have to admit, it was a bit of a shock after so many years in Seattle, to see snow on the mountains before it was even September.