Sometimes, like today, the world is too damn gorgeous to spend any second inside. (birdwatchin’ on Sauvie Island with my favorite birding professionals:) Days like today make me so damn grateful that I get around the world outside, by bike. Because on this kind of glorious fall day, you’ve just …
Oh my gosh, Portland! In the next week and a half, the waterfront cherry blossoms are going to be amazing with blooms! (yesterday afternoon after a quick rainstorm:) (oh my gosh — so excited!!) They’re not open in all their glory yet, but they will be soon. Go visit! Go …
… first signs of spring!! What with the intermittent sun for the last few days, the relatively warm temperatures, the fact that I’ve started hearing frogs along the Springwater, and, now, crocuses in our front yard, SO EXCITED!!! :) I know not to hinge too many of my hopes …
Heck. Yes. Today in Portland, our “daylight” lasted 8 hours, 42 minutes, and 8 seconds, and from here it’s only getting longer! (“Daylight” in quotes, because it sure didn’t seem like the sun rose until about noon today — though once it came out, it actually came out!). (a super …
