We did this last year too. Spent three days and two nights on San Juan Island, cycling each day.  Had beautiful weather, nice rides, grea...

One of our joys is watching our birds. We have approximately 15 bird feeders that require almost daily filling.  At times during the spring ...

This morning, lying in bed, we could see the parent Junco sitting in its nest.  It was looking right at us, just as we were looking at it. ...

We have discovered another bird's nest in one of our hanging baskets.  This one is right outside our bedroom window. (see one of ...

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This will be our fifth Seattle to Portland bike ride together, and all also with Jules.  Although not in any way the most difficult of bike ...

Both of my grandmothers died in the mid-1960s, when I was an adolescent.  My grandfathers died much earlier. I have few memories of any o...

One of the great side benefits of growing older is that you become increasingly able to be weird and nobody can do anything about it.  You ...

We enjoy sitting on our back porch watching mom and dad Junco taking care of their hatchlings. One or the other will sit on the garden fe...

Usually it is the middle of May when our yard becomes an aviary.  Their sounds are so loud that around 4:30 a.m. we have to close our bedroo...

Amazing to see. And they weren't very self conscious about allowing us to watch.     Get a room! ...