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| Note the Olympic mountains at upper left. |
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| Princesses of course |
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| Coolest decoration - the octopus rotated. |
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| They had the gate open and allowed us to bike through to the park without going over the hill! |
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| The Tacoma Art Museum has an artist calling for blankets for a big project. Click here for link. I filled in the form while we were out. We like to leave little bits of ourselves all over town when invited. |
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| One for Adwoa. |
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| Interesting pockets, but no writing tray such as Rev. Munk found. I'm hoping it will last awhile. |
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| For comparison, the bare-bones case it's replacing. It had belonged to my wife's grandfather, who was quite frugal. |
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| Goats eating berry vines. |
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| many bike racks - the sign of a good pub location. |
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| aftermath of a good snack |
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| Saturday's ride - light rain out, heavy returning. About 75% of the parade was dry-ish, though it was still common to see princesses with wet hair. |
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| my own bell-ringing effort, photographed by my wife. |
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| crowded - I wasn't exaggerating |
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| calliope! |
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| Marysville Strawberry festival court. |
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| This used to be a major center for daffodil bulb growers, but most of the farms have been converted to commercial real estate. I hope the same doesn't happen to the hops in central WA. |
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| heck of a school mascot - some sort of logger. |
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| Cool float from a maritime-themed festival in Port Orchard |
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| Tumwater Falls is very full after the wettest March on record. |
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| I didn't see anything particularly interesting today, but that wagon had a "vegetarian pulled pork sandwich" made from jackfruit. It was pretty good. |
