Weird cat pictures

Salix trying to spit his tongue out, or something. This cracks me up.

Extra long fangs.

Orangey-blue whiskers

Eyebrow

Needing Some Green

I went for a walk along the river today, hoping to capture some nice images in the sunshine. I think I'm just too bored by the whiteness of winter. I got much more excited photographing my houseplants. This is the same burro's tail (Sedum burrito) that I photographed and blogged about last spring. It's fun to see how much it's grown.

Our papyrus (Cyperus albostryatus) is blooming!
It's somehow managed to survive in our house despite being Salix's favourite plant to eat.

Macro of a papyrus flower.

New leaf spiraling out of a Corn palm (Dracaena fragrans)

Socktopus

Here's a fun project I made for a wee little girl named Eula Wren who was born on January 9th.
I got the pattern from knitty.com. It's a great way to use up bits of yarn and I loved the end product. I may have to make more of these little guys.

The Snowblower

It's not just a rumour. We really did get a snowblower. And we really, really like it so far.
This shot is from the January 6th storm, which called for 3 rounds of snowblowing in one day.

Salix is the one member of the Cozy Cabin who is not so fond of the new noisy machine. He thinks shoveling is where it's at. He came out to watch the windows get dug out today.

Home Visit

James and Aaron sitting by the green pools of Lynn Canyon.
Vancouver was all warm and tropical and full of good friends and yummy food this weekend. I got totally wooed over.

I love Aaron's laughter in this photo.

A & A

Moss

Rainforest Wander

November: not quite cycling weather, not quite ski season.

Sexy Simone

Pixie cups and other lichens.

Fruita, Colorado

After a few days in Moab we decided to head to Fruita, Colorado which is about an hour east of Moab in a car, or a 3 day mountain bike on the Kokopelli trail (we opted for the car ride).

Fruita was full of amazingly smooth, flowy, fun single track. Which was a nice change from sharing trails with Jeeps and dirt bikes in Moab.

James on Joe's Ridge - a favourite.

More of Joe's Ridge.

One of the fun steeps on Zipadee Dooda.

Luckily no one landed on one of these.

This was our awesome campsite. It was located in the middle of a bunch of trails, so we could come back to camp for lunch and brew a cup of coffee before heading out for more riding.

Breakfast seemed to increase in size as the week went on.

Cool seed pods. Unfortunately I failed to find a good plant guide, so identifying plants was a challenge.

James was excited about the dessication cracks.

Rice grass

Field repair

Juniper skeleton

Woot! Right after our last ride on Kessel's Run - think fun swooshy turns, much like skiing.