Thanksgiving 2009

We went to Daryl's place in Round Valley, near Cascade, Idaho for Thanksgiving. His house is in the middle, green roof, on top of the knoll. What a peaceful holiday we had! The sun setting creates an eerie purple glow on the snow. Photo taken at the same time as the one above, but on zoom and on the ridge. What colors!

Morning! Time to ride!

Can you tell that this is me? I can't either.

Break time for Daryl

Views of Round Valley from the trail.

I thought it was very strange that the Forest Service marks up the trees with paint and metal tags nailed into the trees. And hey, I'm not really that fluffy, I had a complete set of warm clothes on under that suit, it was 20 degrees!

The trail back home

A Local Tourist

An overcast drive to Anacortes along the shore. Guemes Island in the background.

Cap Sante Lookout area, normally you can see Mt. Baker huge! but, not today.

Mt. Erie in the background.

Anacortes industrial area

Barge and tugs pushing old refinery dock

Anacortes Marina

Wind Whipped

Can you see in these photos the tree limbs that have been driven into the ground? The wind did it! Limbs broke off these poplars and ended up implanted in the field! When we got up in the morning it looked like someone had planted new trees in the yard, and most all the remaining dead leaves were blown off the trees, alders especially.

The lake looked pretty whipped up too. This particular windstorm blew down trees big enough to block off Northshore Road for over a day. Power lines were knocked down too. We were without power, heat and water for about 24 hours. Thankfully, the little generator Daryl bought last year has worked very well! Our needs are few, so we can get by with cuddles and candlelight.

white caps and fresh snow!

First Snow of 2009

It turned cold, windy, and snowed in the hills in early November this year. I'm so not ready!!

Winter Garden

Probably doesn't look like much work but it really is! After I decided that trying to grow summer vegetables on the sunny, lakeside of the house didn't work out, setting up the garden bed on the warm, field side of the house did make sense! The lake side just gets too much wind. So, I lifted out 8 x 12 foot area of sod, then dug holes for the posts. Daryl is going to help me attach hogwire around these posts so hungry little critters will not eat all our delicious carrots, tomatoes, blueberries and peas! Will be easy to disassemble if we ever do not want a garden. Even though Daryl is the worker in these photos, you can ask him, I did all the hard labor and used birthday money from my parents to buy the supplies. Thanks Mom and Dad! Hopefully they'll come visit in the summer and enjoy the garden.