Thirty-four!

Happy Birthday!

Hyland's German Chocolate Cake.

Plant Collecting for "Ceanothus" & Dinner for Two

We went with Melissa on a botany exploration at Coyote Overlook. Erin and Melissa recently co-founded Ceanothus...and were collecting plants for a workshop at the UC Davis herbarium.

Hyland's beautiful plant photos.

Senecio vulgaris.

Ceanothus cuneatus.

Calochortus monophyllus.

For dinner, we made sauteed ginger greens and soba in miso broth.

And a pear pie for dessert! We essentially combined two recipes: Erin's mother's (Sunset Magazine) and Hyland's Nana's (Meta Given's Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking)...with a bit of improvising on our own (such as using spelt crust and agar).

Sooooo good! Pear pie is our favorite!

Hummingbirds and a Hike

A beautiful pre-spring day! The hummingbirds were chasing each other in our backyard...claiming territory over the hummingbird feeder.

Hiking at Bridgeport with our friends Allison, David, Olivia, and Norm.

A sunny, warm seventy degrees - in winter!

Enjoying the wildflowers above the South Yuba River.