I remember this day well. My whole family at the coast. It was cloudy and cool, which was perfect for our liking. We laughed and played. There were some arguments. We ate sugar. And pizza. We dipped our feet in the cold water. Felt the coarse sand between our toes. It was gritty and uncomfortable. We removed it with baby powder. We drove home at the end of the day. Tired. Well fed. One trip of many like it. Same recipe but new every time.
"Colors Speak True" - Tides of Man 
"Dear" teableau for 04/12/25
The deer in my Western Washington woods are Columbian Black-tailed deer, a subspecies of the much larger mule deer found east of the Cascades.
Got frost?
Since it might freeze tonight I put the lids on the plastic jars that are protecting these lettuce transplants. The jars help protect the small plants from being battered by the wind and I like to think they might help keep slugs off. The jars originally had mixed nuts and I cut the bottoms off.
Also in the pic are Walla Walla onions that were started from seed last fall and overwintered in the greenhouse before being transplanted into this raised bed.
#Gardens #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #PNW
If anyone is looking to move to my peninsula, and maybe upgrade their current living situation, I found a lavender farm for sale nearby. Lemme know.
"Such Great Heights" - The Postal Service 
"Glasshouse w/ Butterfly" - Tomáš Dvořák 
"The Trees" - Rush 
A moonshot during my evening walk in the neighborhood today.
Waxing Gibbous
When there's a mix of airplane and non-airplane subjects of the photos on a bike ride, it's a toss-up which account to post them from. Lately most of those have gone in a PDX-area thread from my tech/local/cycling @KO6YQ acct. https://pnw.zone/@KO6YQ/114312351136811431 But as I said, today it was all airplanes so I posted from this acct. #cycling #aviation #avgeek #KPDX #Portland #PNW
Video from today's bike ride... FedEx 767F on short final to land at Portland Int'l Airport #KPDX Runway 28L. (The cargo planes prefer 28L for its close proximity to the cargo ramp.) This was taken from near Cascades Station shopping mall. The forested hill in the background is Rocky Butte cinder cone #volcano, one of four volcanoes within Portland city limits. #aviation #travel #avgeek #cycling #geology #Portland #PNW
Today's bicycle ride to PDX was all airplanes all the time. So I'll post here from my #aviation / #avgeek account. These pictures were taken from the bike path along Marine Drive and the Columbia River. Seen here are a Delta 737-900 over the Columbia River on short final to PDX 28R, a Southwest 737 Max8 landing PDX 28R and an Alaska 737-800 taxiing after landing 28R. #KPDX #cycling #Portland #PNW
"Ruins" - Toby Fox 
