Took a trip up to Steven's Pass. There was a bit of snow left yet at the ski area. Not for much longer though. It was 88F degrees when this pic was taken.

Fox Glove

Saw this little deer early in the morning. The steam is off of the neighbors pond.

Sunrise

We took Bugs for a little walk down the driveway today. She started stalking something. She finaly settled in flicking her tail. I think if she had her way she would still be in this position.


She was stalking Niva, the neighbors horse.

oh boy, blue sky! The mts in the distance are the Olympic Mts. Supposed to be nice for the next week here!

Suzi and I have a new hobbie... We feel like when we were first starting out, and needed to find cheap furniture... See, when we took off last year, we sold, gave away, and took the majority of our "stuff" to the dump... so now we have a fresh slate. We have been going around and "test driving furniture" and hitting the 2nd hand stores to find goodies. We decided this weekend we needed a tv stand since the dogs seem to think it is in front of the TV where they should stand... We had a budget of less than $5. But we were picky also. Imagine our surprise when at one store Suzi said, "what is that under that other table?" We unburied our treasure, and since it was Father's day it was 1/2 price!


Turned out we were around the corner from our nesting Great Blue Heron friends, so we stopped by to check in on them. Most of the nests were empty now. Including the one we had the best view of. We did have fun watching these guys balancing up and down the branch. They would spread their wings and walk out on the branch in such a way that it reminded me of a little kid spreading thier arms out and attempting to balance on a curb.


I turned around and saw this young Great Blue Heron walking around. Looked like he was hunting. Reminded me of watching the birds back in Florida!

While waiting for Suzi's bus to show up in the afternoon, we often watch the little black birds swoop down upon the crows. Some sort of behaviorial management program the crows are on...


What we didn't realize was that the little black birds are Red Winged Black Birds.



We also saw this little guy up the hill from the others.

Samantha looks a bit like Winnie The Pooh with his honey jar here.

This is a view of the Evergreen Floating Bridge. Yes, the bridge deck really floats on the water.



The backup here is due to some guy ran out of gas. According to the traffic guys on the radio, the guy refused the free gallon of gas offered by the guys that showed up to help because it was not a high enough octane gas. Guess he missed the part in the taking better of your car where you should keep the top half of the tank full...

Sam and I had fun attacking each other!

We see this deer every morning.

Found this spider while weeding today. Those are babies stacked on it's back!

Ok, It's official, I REALLY like my new car!


Ok, Sam likes it too!

We took a moment today and went to check on the Great Blue Heron Chicks.


They are looking pretty Big.


Look a bit like an Ostrich to us...

Joe and Carisha now have 2 pets.

Rottie the Guinea Pig


And Alice the Bearded Dragon.

Had some liquid sunshine this afternoon. Samantha enjoyed waiting for Suzi to arrive on the bus.