Easter Walk

Luckily there was a enough prettiness around here to keep me relatively happy on Easter...though really I just wanted to go home






I think these really are my favorite kind of flower. They're small enough so they don't seem like much by themselves. Then they burst up in ridiculous clusters, like they're saying "look at me! look at me!"



This house kind of looked like an Easter egg. It actually kind of reminds me of the spinning wheel dad's working on back home. I can totally picture him working on restoration jobs like this.

Things they have here they generally don't there

In Maine, we usually have moose....but HERE...we have the wild, the mysterious, the imperious.......ELK!


Also...it's only in certain parts of Maine where you'd find enough crazy hippies to gather and do a weekly drum circle. This one happens in the park every Sunday, rain or shine, and it lasts all afternoon...sometimes into the evening if the sky is clear.

Over break, I went on a fantastic gray whale survey...and for the first time sighted some whales here on the West Coast. I don't have pics of that though...they were miles and miles away...but I DO have pictures of our survey sites and everyone that went. Sarah Gaffney was visiting from Maine and came along to see what we all do for fun around here. Haha...well, 1 full credit of fun, that is. Here's our view from Point St. George, just north of Crescent City...




Here we were surveying from the Crescent City Oceanview...where my first siting occurred. Exciting!



Next we moved to the Klamath River Overlook...there were people doing traditional fishing, and we saw a gray whale in the last 5 minutes of our survey, so we had to stick around an extra half hour to observe it.