Scavenger Hunt Sunday and Sweet Shot Tuesday

I’ve been meaning to participate in these for a few weeks now, and I think I finally have it all together that I can actually do that!

If you follow my blog you’ve probably already seen these, they are repeats from earlier in the week, but here they are again, all together now!

Vintage:

The Ansco Clipper

Word or Quote:

Can they fly?

Nature’s Own:

A little drop of dew

People:

A spring day in the park

    Photographer’s Choice:

A spooky puddle

My spooky puddle is also my Sweet Shot Tuesday photo, I’ve decided. you can see other entries on my3boybarians.com!

Check out the other Scavenger Hunt Sunday entries here:

I apologize for the doubles, I will do better next week! :)

Photo Friday: Unwind

Okay, so I’m a day late, but I’m NOT a dollar short. Wait, am I?

Anyway, this Photo Friday Challenge is “Unwind” and I thought, where else better to unwind than at a big beautiful lake in the mountains?

Crater Lake National Park at Sunrise

At 1,943 feet deep, it is the deepest lake in the US.

So much water!

Check out the other “Unwind” entries at photofriday.com!

Braided Bread

Isaac cooked up some delicious cashew alfredo for dinner last night, the recipe can be found here, at Dawn Jackson Blatner’s website.

When he told me what he had in mind for dinner, I decided I could contribute something to the meal too by making garlic bread.

I used this Food Network recipe for sourdough bread, complete with my own tweaks (be aware that the times indicated in this recipe are way off. The actual bake time should be considerably less than what it says, and the prep time is longer. They left out the “resting” hour), and it rendered this result:

Garlic Bread

It was tasty, just a little over cooked. Looks pretty though, don’t you agree?

Today, since I now have a whole batch of sourdough starter, I thought I’d try again. And what which it being St Patty’s Day, I thought I would try my hand at a little Celtic knot tying!

Celtic Knot Bread

I added green food coloring to one of the strands.

I baked these for only 20 minutes, and they turned out DELICIOUS! Warm bread, yummm…

Spring has sprung!

Yesterday we had a really beautiful, sunny day. The sky was blue with some white fluffy clouds, and the air was warm. I thought “spring has arrived, finally!”

First we went to Petrovitsky Park.

This one was tilted so you really had to hang on!

I KNOW I coulda made Isaac puke on this one. ;)

I see these everywhere, and I can’t wait to see them in full bloom.

At Springs Lake Park, Isaac went for a jog, and I took photos of green things.

I loved the curved limbs on this fallen tree

Moss, beautiful moss.

Here’s my obsession in bloom! sweet little dangly white flowers.

more moss

a hobbit-esque place. This tree trunk has a hole in it, covered in moss.

Down by the shore of Springs Lake.

Some groovy fungus down by the lakeshore

Yup, a few more of these guys

This one looks kinda like it’s throwing up a gang sign.

Fungus amungus!

I loved how ominous this puddle looked.

A little drop of dew

dew

Last year’s leaf

last year’s leaf will feed this year’s moss

Sunshine! Yay!

channeling my inner caterpillar

…Until this morning, when I opened the drapes to see snow coming down. Not yet, spring, not yet. But soon.