Cold Canyon Preserve

The beginnings of a vegetable garden.

We'll start out with corn, bell peppers, jalapenos, tomatoes, zucchini, chard, kale, strawberries, sunflowers, honeydew, and snap peas. We'll be lucky if we end up with enough to make a salad...

Easter Egg

Woke up on Easter Morning and found an egg in the rafters. It is under there somewhere.


Our new friend.

Woodland Park Zoo Toucan

I loved this guy.

Woodland Park Zoo - Seattle

Woodland Park Zoo - Seattle

Golden Lion Tamarin.

Woodland Park Zoo - Seattle

Confused duck.



So cool.



Moo.

Recovery - Anderson Valley and Russian Gulch

I met Kristen in Ukiah and we spent a good 24 hours in Mendocino County. Went for a bike and hike in Russian Gulch State Park, tasted some Sharffen Berger sparkling wine in Anderson Valley, and finished the day off eating corned beef and cabbage at the annual Anderson Valley Senior Center fundraiser in Boonville. Good times.



A bike rack in the backcountry. How cool/weird is that?













Redwood Trillium.

Clear Lake to Ukiah - Day Four

Day Four took me from Clear Lake State Park, through the great little town of Finley, over the Hopland Grade to Old Hopland, then up the Old River Road through countless vineyards into Ukiah.

Looking back down at the Hopland Grade. Luckily there weren't too many of those big trucks...not much of a shoulder on this uphill.



At this point all the big climbs are behind me and it is mostly all downhill to the end of the ride in Ukiah.

Clear Lake - Day 3

Day Three was brutal. Big climbs and lots of traffic towards the end of the day.

Morning in the Knoxville Wildlife Area.







Looks like I wasn't the first one to feel the burn that is the hill climbs of the Knoxville Road. This message was at the top of the steepest hill.



Followed by this message.



Clear Lake is a weird place, but it has its charms. I stayed at the large empty campground...just me and the senior citizens in their RVs.