Issaquah Salmon Hatchery

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ~Jerome Fleishman

Salmon are an inspiration to me. At the end of their life (those that survive) in a tired, beat down state they must swim upstream only to lay their eggs and die.

They are obedient and they know their purpose.

I've lived only 30 years and I'm still trying to be obedient and still figuring out my purpose.

Can I endure this life as well as the salmon?

It's a test you know.

I hope. And try to have faith and not fear for what is to come.

And I always have prayer.

Nature has so much to teach us.

These were my thoughts at the hatchery.

Preston learned that ducks like to eat dead fish. Are ducks carnivores?