It is such a special treat when someone comes to visit and is willing to explore Portland the way we always do, via bike, foot, or transit. (YAY for mommies on the Tilikum Crossing!:) I hope that when I go places I’m as awesome of a guest as the people …
You know what’s amazing?? Camping when the weather is actually nice! I’d sort of forgotten, since all the camping I’ve done for a while now has been fairly marginal-weather camping — you know, the kind where unless you’re actively exerting yourself you’re kind of cold most of the time, where …
You know what the best thing about the Clackamas River is? Aside from the fact it’s super beautiful? A lot of it happens to be in the Mt. Hood National Forest, there’s a whole bunch of camping along it, and you can be there in your tent after only a …
I’m sitting on our porch, watching two different sets of crows build two different nests in close-but-respectably-separate conifers. All around, I hear other, different birds — the bushtit pair that’s building a nest that I haven’t yet been able to find, the two chickadees similarly settling somewhere close, a bunch …
