Those Red Boots

Last year I planted strawberry plants in pots on our deck and got about three berries in return.  But year two is looking good!  My first seven strawberries of the year…

Yep, while I was in posting mode thought I would call attention to the album from our trip to the Oregon coast. Notice something strange?  Some of them are sunny!

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We went to San Diego in early April and I couldn’t believe that I actually remembered to bring my camera, it was charged, AND I remembered to use it to take photos!  Then when we got back home I couldn’t find the camera.  It has been recovered and the long lost photos of our trip are now posted.  Enjoy.

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Scott and I had to get away and find the sun (it’s very scarce around Seattle these days) and flying away just wasn’t in the budget…so after Mexico or Hawaii where do you go for sun?  How about Boise?!  We got plenty of sun in the car on the way there, driving through beautiful eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, and then the rain found us tin Boise on Saturday. =(  But not before we had lunch outside and that made it all worthwhile. 

We have a pretty random selection of photos from the weekend, I wasn’t very good at remembering to actually put the camera in my purse…so we don’t have shots of the cousins I never see or their absolutely adorable kids.  Nope, we have these…

We stopped for lunch in Yakima on the way to Boise and found this cat rolling around in a drinking fountain.  The day was warm, the metal fountain was hot…and I knew exactly where he was coming from. 

Also in Yakima, we say this cute line of shops and wanted a picture in front of it…but no one around to take one.   So we took two and stitched them together.  Clever.

And IN Boise finally – we were super excited to see the Idaho Black History Museum.  But sadly, it was closed.  Guess that gives us something to go back for.  That and my cousins and their cute kids!

When you get a sunny day in November in Seattle…you want to experience from every possible vantage.  We were driving to Spokane this weekend for my sisters’ 21st birthday party but since the sun was out Saturday morning we couldn’t help but pull off of I-90 at exit 32 and hike up to Rattlesnake Ledge.  It was so worth the detour and the climb – the sun on the valley below was incredible and it felt great to stand on the ledge and bask in it.  I can see why Rattlesnake ledge is one of the area’s most popular hikes and I’m glad we hit the trail pretty early in the day because it started to get pretty crowded as we descended. 

On the way down we passed a very winded and tired pug headed upward.  Now I know Seattleites love to take their dogs hiking…but a pug?  I don’t speak fluent pug but I’m pretty sure that if I could have understood I would have heard him wheeze something like “don’t you know I’m a lap dog, people?! I don’t hike!!” 

Anyway, hope he made it to the top to see these beautiful views…he certainly earned that reward:

The novelty of panoramic stitch should have worn off by now…but it hasn’t, so here are a few of those too:

A few weeks ago we took a trip down to Portland to help grant some wishes.  Our friend Kemp works for the Make a Wish Foundation and they had their annual dinner and auction at the Portland Art Museum.  I didn’t take too many pictures, just one of the four of us in our fancy duds. 

We were winning bidders and we’ll be going on two weekend trips to the Oregon coast and to Ashland!  Yah! 

On our way home we stopped off at the Lewis and Clark State Park and I can’t say it was the most exciting historical site I’ve ever visited…but at least the river view was nice: