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  • Photo: Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge – Take a New Photo

    Fresh from the oven… Kirkland waterfront on a late afternoon. This post was written in response to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Take a New Photo. Today I left work a bit earlier than usual, but decided to give the nanny the opportunity to work her regulars hours. So I went for a walk Read more

  • Wordless Wednesday – March 23rd

    (from the same tree as 2 Wednesdays ago…) Read more

  • Wordless Wednesday – March 9th

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  • Firefly

    It was the night before the vernal equinox. The wood fairies were busy in wrapping up winter and getting everything ready for spring. In the bark of the trees, pupae are about to hatch, just in time for the equinox festival. Now, the day has come! Night and day have the same length and life Read more

  • Tulips!

    It’s that time of the year again, when we wait for a sunny day, get into the car and drive all the way to Mount Vernon, WA, to see the tulip fields in all their prettiness. I took a lot of pictures and it was actually hard to choose one to post here. But I Read more

  • Welcome Spring!

    Today is the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Welcome Spring!!!!   Read more

  • Climbing cherry trees? Why not? WHY???

    Yesterday we went to University of Washington campus to enjoy the view of the blooming cherry trees. And the trees were so climbing friendly!!! My kids couldn’t resist and climbed on a few of them, with our help. In one of them, I decided to try to climb too, but after both kids were at Read more

  • Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Spring

    I’m participating in the online adventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s Challenge is: Spring! Spring is coming and flowers are starting to bloom. Yesterday I wrote a post about my lunchtime walk in which I took a few pictures of the little signs of Spring. Today I’m participating of this Read more

  • Spring is in the air

    Last week I avoided going for walks, in order to take time to recover from my little dare-to-jog-on-a-half-marathon injuries. Friday I was feeling good though, so I risked walking with a friend to a cafe about 1 mile away from our offices for some lunch. The way there passes through a trail around a wetland Read more

  • Back into business

    Today, after a 2-week forced break due to sickness, I finally went for a walk at lunch time. It wasn’t too long. It wasn’t in one go. But it was a walk. And it felt gooood! One thing that I noticed during the walk and that also made me happy was that spring is starting Read more