Blood orange marmalade

On a rainy Saturday

Snack stop before riding to Highbridge Road

The Snoqualmie River

Rain garden near old Monroe Diary

Blackberries near Tualco

New farm stand

Snow in May

Cotton fluff on the Burke Gilman,

In Redmond

Back on the Sammamish River trail for the first time in 3 months.

Eggplant parmigiana

Worth a bit of preparation

Spring Beauty, Glacier Lilies, a purple anemone and carpet of snow

Trying not to be a meadow stomper

But there are tire tracks here. It's ATV time for Memorial Day weekend

No one beats Mother Nature

At Riders camp

Forgot the first 13 miles of this is a paved bike route.

I never see Lowell from this point

Tour of barns and sheds

How did I never ride this one?

Lowell Latimer Road

Reminding me of Normandie

Outside Snohomish

Sunday’s post ride supper

I wish I was always so organized...

Ready for pot #2

Ready for the pot

Who knows why

Early C20th garages probably built from old growth felled nearby

View towards Langley On Whitney Island

Halfway

At the south end of Camano Island

Buttermilk lime syrup cake

It smells divine.

Been missin’ ya

This has been a slumpy week for me. Quarantine fatigue has taken hold. So I'm glad I made the effort to ride along Phinney Ridge And remind myself to be thankful I live in such a nice neighborhood.

This makes me happy

Favas transplanted

My own hummingbird

Enjoying the flowers of the bolting lacinito kale.

May 17 first of the fragrant roses

Speak memory

Duckies near Pateros on Methow Riverside

425 miles trip on the Cascade Loop. Weather rainy, but Hwy 20 is open as of 5/12, and it's an antidote to quarantine.

Another outing perhaps

Horse tails

Big Four picnic spot

The rest of the Mountain Loop

21 miles to Darrington

Barlow now snow free

Barlow Pass

One week on: warmer, sunnier, snow be gone

Silver bike taking a rest

Trillium

Wonderful

Mountain Loop Highway, one week later

Still gated!

Toodling Ship Canal

Gently does it. Not super motivated but doing something at least. Pandemic blahs set in.

Cle Elum Lake May 10

Hot at my pullover picnic

My Mother’s Day

Near Salmon la Sac

86 degrees = popping poppies