In early July, Tim noticed an article about the Redmond Riverwalk in the Seattle Times so that's where we went on this cool and cloudy Saturday.

We had mixed emotions afterwards. It was a nice enough walk if one could ignore the swarms of cyclists swooping out of nowhere, and the roar of the traffic from a nearby highway.


There were glimpses of the pretty Sammamish River, and lots of sculptures to look at along the way. We saw wildflowers and birds. In the end, we agreed that if we worked in the vicinity, we'd definitely use it at lunchtime, and that's what it was primarily designed for. It really is a shame that there wasn't an adjoining path for the cyclists. I'm sure they were just as annoyed with us as we were with them.

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After we finally found a place to park, we set off. The first part of the trail was mostly blackberry bushes, trees and fields..
     
   
     
Here is Solar System, a kinetic sculpture by California artist Susan Pascal Beran.
     
   
     
Huge blackberry bushes, with fruits in varying degrees of ripeness continued to line the pathway.

     
   
     
Susan Pascal Beran made this sculpture too. It's called Fish Dance.
     
   
     
At last the blackberry bushes give way and there were small paths down to the Sammamish River.


     
   
     
This is what I'm photographing.
     
   
     
Around a corner was a sculpture called Paired Beavers,by Georgia Gerber of Washington.
     
   
     
And hiding in the dark under a bridge is a Great Blue Heron.
     
   
     
I wasn't sure what sort of mushrooms these are, but they didn't look very appetizing!
 

     
   
     
Shorebirds, like this Killdeer splashed along the edge of the river.
 

     
   
     
Another Killdeer watched me from an old log at the water's edge.

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