Girls Kick 'but

Jessie got a nice halibut last weekend in her first HOUR of fishing. Gary, Chad, Shane, and I spent DAYS and didn't get a single one... That woman can fish! :)

It's a cold spring to be bald.

no more hair :)

More snow brewing in the Olympic foothills.

Halibut fishing with a view of the snowy Olympic foothills

Snowy Spring Dad Eyebrows.

Dad's eyebrows make good snow catchers

Christmas In April - redux

We planted this christmas tree a kajillion years ago. It's a blue spruce. Now it has more snow than 2 hrs ago.

Lake dawn in the snow.

Still comin down :)

Dad's explorer

Christmas in april :)

Mom's van. Happy april!

a couple minutes of snow :)

Spring is construction season

Looks like the beavers in the park by my house are doin a remodel on their cabin :)

The wee hours at meadowbrook pond.

Couldn sleep. Went next door for peace and quiet. U cant see the picture but the cottonwoods are silhouetted against the night sky and their perfume hints of vanilla and cinnamon. I can hear the creek pouring over the weir as restless ducks quack awake the sleepy ones and the occasional wingflap as a spooked bird hops to the other side of the pond. Usually with four quacks. Sometimes in pairs. They are more active than u think at night. A heron is hunting downstream of the bridge. I had to move slowly not to spook it. And four birds splashed down with muffled wingbeats just now. Disgruntled quacks greeted them and now again only the sound of the stream pouring over the weir. But wait. I hear chewing... Somewhere a hidden beaver munches the spring bark of a dogwood or a willow or sweetgale. And perfume barely touches the late night breeze.

Spring flowers by the fountain.

nice mix of blooming shrubs on campus. These are in the same patch of trees where i saw two great blue herons building a nest last weekend.