The small town of Forks is the only town on the western side of Olympic National Park on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. We stopped to eat at one of its restaurants. A huge head of a male elk is mounted directly above its booths. I found two of the restaurant’s waitresses waiting behind counters at the back of the room while a cook works in its kitchen. One of the waitresses seems tired – she may have been working for hours and this seems to be a chance for her to find a moment of quiet. The incongruity of the massive elk head contrasts strongly with the slow pace of daily life in a small town restaurant.