We Could Go For Miles and Miles...

And we often do...  Gimme and I walk a lot on the Fort Lewis training areas.  They are wonderful places to let her get off leash and be a dog.  She really loves it and I'm sure it contributes a lot to how fit and agile she is.  Here's a photo essay from a recent day on area 23...

There are hills... 

 And flat areas...

That seem to stretch on for miles and miles

This area is an underground petroleum pipeline.

This spot in particular, I call the "hill from hell."

I'll let you guess why...

Gimme is fond of surveying the furthest reaches of her domain...

She also loves to run with wild abandon...

This plant is popularly called "skunk cabbage", because it smells like a cross between skunk and cooked cabbage.

I usually smell skunk cabbage LONG before I see them - their odor does travel on the breeze. 

This is the time of year when skunk cabbage makes its appearance in the many wetland areas...

Gimme loves to snoop around the edges.  She's even getting braver about getting her toes wet on occasion. 

I doubt she'll ever take up swimming.  So, I guess there's no dock diving title in our future...

Passing through this area was really a pleasant end to our walk...

Wish I had it in my back yard...

Upon closer inspection, in some places you could see beds of snow flowers... called that because they look like patches of snow from a distance.  They have no leaves.











Gimme found this lovely bunch of wild daffodils right at the end of our walk... just a couple dozen yards from the car.  She's a wonderful walking buddy who never misses a thing.  I would have missed them entirely.