Yesterday I just couldn't concentrate on anything so I dropped my chores and plans and started walking. Just to the north of us is a county park that includes a high viewpoint called Sare's Head. As the crow flies it is very close to our house, but the terrain is seriously rough and I was looking for mental health, not physical challenge, so I walked up the road and used the proper park entrance.
The first interesting feature looked like a field from the edge, but it was a shallow lake/pond/marsh full of reeds and birds. The trail skirted the pond, allowing glimpses of red-wing blackbirds, herons and ducks amid the cat-tails and emerging water lilies before turning into the woods. This island is granite with a thin layer of vegetation, but in the woods the plants rule. The trees are thick, but the new leaves of spring allowed sunshine to filter through and light up the ferns and moss. It was green and very quiet. Rock outcroppings reared up, with tree roots as big as trunks draping over them. The trail had 
been newly laid with gravel, which made the walk dry and easy compared to the muddy, rooty scramble it used to be, but it was still steep.
Quite suddenly, the path opened out onto a wide, high rocky bald; Sare's Head. The view was a sweeping panorama of North Puget Sound on a perfect spring day. Sitting alone on this promontory soaking up the beauty of the world was a true tonic for my wandering spirit.
