A hastily posted post of photos from last week's trip to the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and from this weekend's interlude of snow in Seattle. And not a lot of words because, as usual, I'm tired and would like to be asleep.


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We *said* we were going to the arboretum but it turned out that we both wanted to start with Foster Island. It was a pretty exciting walk, what with significant patches of the path being quite waterlogged. We also discovered that the path can end at the Montlake Cut so we ate our sandwiches where we could watch the antics of the Cormorant Trees ( Read more... )

Easter weekend was busy. It was a good sort of busy since I realized on Friday that rather than stay home Saturday tidying the house (in preparation for Sunday's dinner which, I think, turned out quite fine though we didn't really need 2.25 pounds of salmon for five people) and meeting people for dinner in West Seattle we could instead go canoeing ( Read more... )

Yesterday's sunny weather meant that elijah_brown and I were morally obliged, if not obligated, (what is the difference, all-knowing Imaginary Reader?) to go on Expedition. We've been intending to check out the Duwamish Greenbelt for a few months now so that's where we headed. It turns out to be not a significantly longer distance from the house than Camp Long ( Read more... )

It's handy being so close to New Years that I can count backwards to get the number for my subject line. Oh, how I would love to have a proper "end of the year" sort of post to place here but, predictably and typically, I know that I should be getting to work on dinner and I'm a bit tired and hazy from the excitements of the day ( Read more... )

It's late--in fact, if I haven't completely lost track of the days in my subject line it is, in fact, day 191 by now and, as I keep saying everywhere, Day 191 (or Sunday, July 8 anyway), is to be Apricot Jam Making Day in Madame Gradka's Factory so I should be getting to bed and resting up in anticipation. But instead I note for posterity that this ( Read more... )

Yesterday Eli and I spent a few hours in a canoe on Lake Washington. The weather wasn't as perfect as we might have liked but it was still a fabulous time. I could almost believe that there is nothing so fine as messing around in boats except today we went for a wander around West Seattle and then spent some time fussing around in the yard and, ( Read more... )