“...very low cloud cover and nonstop rain...”
After 12 years in Seattle one would think I’d be used to it. But I’m not! Can’t say I get real depressed over it - except when I’m coming back from Eastern Washington from a job. Driving in the high desert with the snowy mountains in the distance, clear blue sky and can see for miles. Start climbing the pass and see that ceiling of gray beyond to the west. Like crawling back under an old wool army blanket that is soaking wet.
Hang in there Scythian!
We used to go to Lake Chelan every August and stay for a long weekend and swim in the Lake (cold as it was). We spent a lot of time in the Ho Rainforest and the Lake Quinault Lodge over on the penninsula. We lived in Carnation out on 203 just north of Snoqualmie but south of Duvall, a great little town on the edge of the cascades and I worked in downtown Seattle for a decade, remeber the WTO riots, I was downtown and watching the smoke rise out my window as I was cranking code. We used to go to Rainier all the time, Paradise and the other side (can’t recall the name right now). Those were good times, but by the end of Feb/March each year I was ready to leave, then summer would hit (short as it was) and I would think “What am I crazy, this place is paradise” and sign up for another year ...