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Saturday, January 26, 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Little Cranberry lake hike
Today we explored the Little Cranberry lake area. It was a little overcast when we began our hike, but happily no wind and not a drop of rain.
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A nice map is at the trailhead kiosk, we brought our own since the Anacortes Community Forest lands "ACFL can be quite a maze. Thankfully the trails are marked by trail number, so if you have a map you can navigate your way through pretty well. My husband was hoping that on this hike we would find connector trails to Heart Lake, so that we could make a longer day's hiking on another day and really explore the area. We did find just such a trail, so now we can combine some great trails together in one day's hike.
Just as we began our hike I looked down and saw this tooth on the ground. I wonder who or what left it there. hmmmm
We took our first turn of the day, you can see the trail sign on the tree.
I loved this curved tree along the trail.
Heart rock found along the trail ❤
A Wolf warning sign on this post, there is a game farm nearby and "sometimes" apparently the Wolves escape.
Tiny mushrooms were all along the trail today.
We walked beside a very big rock.
A Madrona tree❤
We decided to stop and take a snack break at this nice mossy area.
I couldn't get over how green the moss was on this rock.
I took a micro photo of the moss on the rock in the above photo, doesn't it look interesting!?
Turkey tails
The reflections on the lake were spectacular today.
Mr, and Mrs. Pack enjoying their view of Little Cranberry lake. We had a nice food break here also.
As we made our way around the lake, we came to where a fire had burned in August of 2016.
It looked as if most of the fire was in the undergrowth.
Looking across the lake, where we had come from. Again more wonderful lake reflections.
This looked to be a great fisherman's log, can't you just picture someone walking out to the end of this fallen tree to get just that perfect spot.
As we had walked along the other side of the lake, we had seen some Swans on the lake and hoped to get close to them when we got to this end of the trail. We found a nice boardwalk and viewing area to look at them. They were there, but my camera doesn't zoom well so all I have to show in the photo are some tiny blurry Swans. You can enlarge the photos to see them, but that really doesn't help much. See if you can spot all three of them. Sorry. Anyway....they were just the perfect end to our hike.
Relive video of our route:
Garmin stats:
total miles hiked - 7.15
total ascent - 1027 feet
Monday, January 21, 2019
Mon Oeuvre ~ Good Fortune Mystery Quilt progress 6
Clue 5 was another two part project. As you can see the orange and neutral colors are switched for some of the units. I laid these blocks out on the other mystery quilt colors to show how colorful the quilt is going to be.
After sewing the neutral and orange fabrics together. They were pressed and then sewn to the large blue triangles.
More pressing, of course to the "dark side"😉.
Clue five is done ✔
Clue's one, two, three, four and five!
It's fun to see the fabrics I chose from the paint chip colors coming to life.
Friday, January 18, 2019
Picture of the week ~ Point Whitehorn setting sun
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Monday, January 14, 2019
Mon Oeuvre ~ Good Fortune Mystery Quilt progress 5
Clue 4 was my attempt to go scrappy. Since this clue was "strip blocks" done with paper piecing, I decided to be brave. I cut my strips into random width strips and sewed them to the phone book pages, then trimmed that completed unit to the large block dimensions. I subcut the large strip block into the clue four size. Each large block unit subcuts will have the same strip/fabric pattern, so kindof scrappy, kindof not. A good sort of "scrappy" version first start for me to try.
Here's my first set attempt:
It really stretched me to just randomly pick strips and sew them together without paying attention to my previously sewn and cut strip blocks. I'm hoping I won't get too stressed when it comes to putting these together in the final quilt blocks.
Here's my completed clue 4 foundation paper pieced, strip block units. Who knows how many strip blocks are in each pile, hmmmmm..........it's a mystery - remember😉.
Clue's 1, 2, 3 and 4 are done!
I always like to read about what prompted her color choices. This clue’s colors were chosen from China’s Golden Season and the Terra-cotta Warriors.
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Picture of the week ~ PNW style Moss
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
Rufus creek hike
Today we did the hike we'd planned on doing last week, you can read about the reason for our change of plans HERE. Rufus creek trail is part of a new trail system in the Lookout mountain area. The Bellingham Herald did an article about the new trails. Here's the link for that article: https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article220786170.html.
We were excited to explore a familiar area to us along some different trails. It was drizzling abit when we began our hike but that soon quit and we had mostly cloudy skies with the sun peeking in and out during our lunch stop. There was a breeze off and on especially when we got up to the viewpoint, but nothing horrible.
We had printed off the map of the trails at home so we'd have one with us, but the map in the photo below is on the sign board at the trail head.
A great mother stump at the parking lot.
Off to explore a new trail, happy days!
After nearly a mile we came to the junction of the waterfall trail and the road, we decided to walk up the road and then go down the waterfall trail.
What a sight, it was really flowing!
I found 2 heart rocks on the waterfall trail!!
The Mr. doing his trail clean up with his trusty little hand saw.
We decided to hike up the hill, hoping for some sun and a view for lunch.
The sun did decide to come out for a bit.
Our lunch spot has been chosen, pardon my shadow.
The Mr. made us a nice cozy log bench to put our seat cushions on for our break.
Since it's winter, we had a view of the hills. When the leaves come back on the trees, many of the views will go away.
We hiked back down the trail for a ways after our lunch, but after conferring with our map we decided to head back up the hill past where we'd eaten lunch and head to the viewpoint.
Still following the Rufus trail signposts.
We walked along a large rock wall. This was the view beside the trail looking up.
I heard a tap tap tapping near me and saw this Hairy? Woodpecker thumping away on this tree.
I took a video as well, if you turn your volume up you'll be able to hear the gentle taps that caught my attention.
Proof I was on the hike photo.
Another Hairy Woodpecker, this time a female.
We made it to the viewpoint. Mr. and Mrs. Pack enjoyed a quiet sit down together.
The view across the way, showed us Lake Whatcom and the area of another fairly new trail in the area, the Chanterelle trail. That trail as well as the Smith Creek aka Cub creek trail open up near the power line swath on the hill across the lake.
Time to head back down to the parking lot.
A nice surprise spotting of another waterfall.
What a great day on a new trail with some beautiful second growth forest to hike through near the viewpoint.
The Relive video of our route.
Garmin stats:
total miles hiked - 7.75 miles
total ascent - 1512 feet
total descent - 1575 feet
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