A warm, sunny day... How EVER did they get this place to look so mysteriously dreary? There are no lingering traces of blue-greyness; I never imagined that television could portray things with such dank inaccuracy. Camera tricks? Poor technology? A season of cold clamminess that August isn't hinting at? Even with the "Fire Walk With Me" soundtrack in Jane's CD-player, there's no hint of suspense, of murder, of sweet, dead little junkie Laura Palmer. It's simply a beautiful day's drive...
Of course, I know it was just a TV show, but the intensity of it couldn't have come from a few creative minds and a couple of cameras, could it? I think that's what I'm looking for: the intensity more than the specific places. The distinct mood of ambiguity: dreamy evil. From here, there's none of that, and I'm already mentally praising the visions and miraculous techniques that must have gone into transforming this place into "Twin Peaks." Perhaps, though, the town itself holds more of Lynch's darkness than this highway does... We shall see...
"Afraid? AFRAID? I'm not afraid! I can hardly WAIT!" --Bobby Briggs, "Twin Peaks."
14 August 2001 ~ 4.05 PM, PST
Sitting on a rock near the base of Snoqualmie Falls
Snoqualmie, WA
David ~
I made it.
Love always,
~Carolyn*
[Note: Within about twenty minutes, I slipped while following Brian and Jane along the rocky edges of the Snoqualmie River, falling in a very awkward position, half in the water, half smashed against a rock... I wasn't hurt very badly -- a pretty brown bruise on my left knee -- but I did manage to get a good portion of my jeans soaked. My watch was also drenched, and ceased to work for the next four days. Miraculously, I saved my camera from certain death, but my notebook was not so fortunate, and this was the very last written entry, as the paper was mostly soaked... As shitty as the experience sounds, I'm quite grateful, because being wet and clammy anyway gave me an excuse to wade into the water, fully clothed, as I tried to follow my friends to the other side...]
14 August 2001 ~ afternoon
North Bend, WA