This years Rhubarb harvest!

The first thing in our vegetable garden to be harvested this year - rhubarb!

I'm half - way done cutting and bagging it for the freezer and thought I'd have my rhubarb "pose"! I have a wonderful rhubarb jam recipe that I make throughout the year. I have a teaspoon of it nearly every morning in my steel cut oats/brown rice/quinoa/kale/raisin/flax seed and almond milk breakfast combo. I make a big batch of this every couple weeks and freeze it in individual serving containers.

Mmmmmmmmm, delicious!

Fun in the sun (finally), Sulphide creek & Baker river hike (almost 9 miles)

 After our incredibly long wet and dark spring we finally got a wonderful sunny and warm day for our hike. We had a long carpool ride from Bellingham to Baker lake for the start of our hike.

We had planned on hiking to Noisy creek today, but there was some question about where we should go since part of the area we wanted to hike had a questionable approach. As you can see there are a couple of trees resting on the bridge cables.



We decided to go to Sulphide creek, where we had a short break. Some of us couldn't decide if it was a lunch break or a snack break. I decided to take advantage of the break and ate half of my lunch, since it was still a bit early for lunch and I would undoubtedly be hungry a little later.

Creek crossing.

Baker river

Sulphide creek and our lunch - snack break location.

After a discussion we decided to go ahead and cross the bridge and go out the trail to Noisy creek after all but to turn around at 1:30 and see how far we would get.

 The Hidden creek bridge made for a scenic area to take pictures and eat the rest of my lunch.

 For Djan's post on the hike: http://djanstewart.blogspot.com/2011/05/baker-river-walk.html