Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Green anemones at Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park in Washington

Moss-covered trees in a lowland interior forest of Mount Rainier National Park in Washington

Unfurled fern fronds against a bokeh’d background of open fern fronds in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

Green ground cover in the Hoh Rain Forest of Olympic National Park in Washington

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

If you are out and about (and a good distance apart from any other hiker) in a nationanl park or national monument or national forest, then after viewing the wide-angle vistas before you, take a look at the greenery that makes up the scenery, since it’s the little things that flesh out a landscape’s Big Picture.

“May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold, and at the end of all your rainbows, may you find a pot of gold.” … of course, you might have to engage in some sort of shillelagh fight with a leprachaun to get that pot of gold for yourself, but I know you can do it.