This year is the 100th anniversary of the National Park System. In celebration of that, I've seen many guide books and wonderful (and huge) photo books, but the one I selected for my blog is See America: a Celebration of Our National Parks & Treasured Sites. It is illustrated by the Artists of the Creative Action Network. As part of Roosevelt's Work Projects Administration, artists were put to work creating posters to teach and create interest in the new NPS. In that spirit, and with the same goal, the See America project was started with a generation of new artists. The results are stunning! (A fun fact here: Robert Todd Lincoln, the only surviving child of Abraham Lincoln, was at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial).

For spectacular places closer to home than most of the National Parks, you might want to consider what you'll find in The Seven Wonders of Washington State: Your Guide to Exploring the Natural Wonders of the Evergreen State, by Howard Fisk. It is obvious from both the photos and the text that Mr. Fisk loved putting this book together!

Reading Hermit With Dog