Skip to content

Writing Down the Story

Living life and writing it down

Primary Navigation

  • Home
  • About Me
  • My Blogs
  • Adventure Log
  • Notes from Three of Earth Farm
  • Flora & Fauna Friday
  • Wordless Wednesday
  • Essays & Memoirs
  • MeMoRy MoNdAy
Gretchen Staebler

Gretchen Staebler

I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer.

Personal Links

  • Writing Down the Story
  • Daughter on Duty
  • My View from the Garden
  • Caregiver Ally / Author

View Full Profile →

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 268 other followers

  • Home
  • About Me
  • My Blogs
  • Adventure Log
  • Notes from Three of Earth Farm
  • Flora & Fauna Friday
  • Wordless Wednesday
  • Essays & Memoirs
  • MeMoRy MoNdAy

Instagram

Morning Sky #morningsky #sunrise #mtsthelens www.writingdownthestory.com
Wordless Wednesday (on Thursday, oops) Words and more photos of my (scary) hike at Mt. St. Helens at www.writingdownthestory.com
Evening Sky. After a day of rain. #eveningsky #clouds
Wordless Wednesday. For more photos of the camas, visit www.writingdownthestory.com #camas #mimamoundsnaturalareapreserve, #prairiecamas, #bluecamas, #springinthepnw
Morning Sky.
Morning Sky over Seattle. #seattle #morningsky #lakeunion
Morning Sky: the lull before the rains return. www.writingdownthestory.com
#WordlessWednesday #meadow-gardening #springgardening

Archives

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Gretchen Staebler

Gretchen Staebler

I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer.

Personal Links

  • Writing Down the Story
  • Daughter on Duty
  • My View from the Garden
  • Caregiver Ally / Author

View Full Profile →

“Story is the shortest distance to the human heart.”

  • Home
  • About Me
  • My Blogs
  • Adventure Log
  • Notes from Three of Earth Farm
  • Flora & Fauna Friday
  • Wordless Wednesday
  • Essays & Memoirs
  • MeMoRy MoNdAy

Archives

Tag: Mt. Rainier

Mt. Rainier, the Other Side
Adventure Log

Mt. Rainier, the Other Side

Our adventures were over, the weekend forecast was for rain everywhere. We spent Friday and Saturday hunkered down inside doing … Continue reading Mt. Rainier, the Other Side

Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

What astonished me this week. Continue reading Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

(Almost forgot. Bedtime in NC.) Mountains from coast to coast. I don’t usually see Rainier from this side, looking a … Continue reading Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Also ran: Continue reading Wordless Wednesday

Adventure Log: Paradise Found
Adventure Log

Adventure Log: Paradise Found

July 13, 2022 Who woulda thought I’d go to Paradise twice in a week? But Vickie from North Carolina who … Continue reading Adventure Log: Paradise Found

Adventure Log: Paradise Lost
Adventure Log

Adventure Log: Paradise Lost

July 10, 2021 Not really. Paradise is never lost, but I have already used “No Bad Days” as the title … Continue reading Adventure Log: Paradise Lost

Adventure Log: Skookum Flats—More than I bargained for
Adventure Log

Adventure Log: Skookum Flats—More than I bargained for

Hiked June 24, 2021 Skookum Flats has been on my “to hike” list for a long time. I prefer mountain … Continue reading Adventure Log: Skookum Flats—More than I bargained for

Adventure Log: Grand Park via Lake Eleanor 3
Adventure Log, writingdownthestory in Photograph

Adventure Log: Grand Park via Lake Eleanor 3

July 21, 2020 Grand Park in Mt. Rainier National Park is the eighth natural wonder of the world. Or should … Continue reading Adventure Log: Grand Park via Lake Eleanor 3

Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday, writingdownthestory in Photograph

Wordless Wednesday

Continue reading Wordless Wednesday

Adventure Log: Owyhigh Lakes
Adventure Log, writingdownthestory in Photograph

Adventure Log: Owyhigh Lakes

July 10, 2020 Lil darlin’ it’s been a long, wet, lonely summer…but I can see clearly now the rain is … Continue reading Adventure Log: Owyhigh Lakes

Posts navigation

Older posts
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Writing Down the Story
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Writing Down the Story
    • Join 268 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Writing Down the Story
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...