I'm dreaming of a white....Valentine's Day

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day. We celebrated during Stitch 'n' Bitch with wine and good company. We had a little tease of snow (not unlike what we'd get in Portland) yesterday, but today has been serious business. My footprints from lunch were already covered a couple hours later when I came down to the library to post this!

Good morning, Moon. This was on the trail between camp and the house. One thing I can say about this job is that the commute sure beats Portland traffic.

There is something incredibly satisfying about knowing there are 300+ other people at camp (most of them kids) and still managing to be the first person across a snow-covered Bridge of Doom.

While working at the power pole yesterday afternoon, the clouds broke and Tahquitz Peak finally showed itself. It was the power pole that gives us this week's Kid Moment of the Week. A young man, we'll call him Charlie, climbed to the top of the pole, but then wasn't entirely sure of standing up and decided that sitting on the top was good enough. As his classmates were cheering for him to stand up, he shouted, "I'm not standing up, you a$$holes, so just shut up!" I looked at the other instructor, and it was all we could do to keep from busting out laughing.

Snow and lichen on a Live Oak.

A Coulter pine cone in the snow....it's a sno-cone, right?! (FYI, that pine cone is about 10" long, and it's small for a Coulter!)

More Coulter pine needles....

The snow's been fun, because it's been easy to see all the critter footprints around the house and tell what kind of "neighbors" we have. Coyotes, bunnies and deer all hang out along our trail. I wonder what kind of weird creature left this size nine....

A frosty Coulter....this is for you, Jeff! :)

Whatever the weather brings you this week, stay warm and give everyone a hug from me! I think there's a snowman out there that might need building.....