We headed to the UW again today. Partly to avoid the weekend crowds. 1. The trees along Rainier Vista are blooming. 2. The weather is supposed to be sunny. 3. It’s a weekend.
We continued walking the campus edges by Lake Washington.
Our route included passing by the UW baseball field. The outfield wall is separated from Lake Washington by a moat swamp and a narrow gravel road. Home runs often end up in the wet.
When I looked up from the sodden baseball I saw this.
The heron was quite close, but seemingly nonplussed by traffic on the gravel path.
We continued on, stopping at the Ravenna Brewery to share a brew. This gave us the energy to make it home, on a route that included two steep hills. I considered a hilly, but not quite as steep route, but it was longer.
Funny side note. We play a license plate game. Starting at 000 you count up. 001, 002, etc. We started in October 2024 and are currently looking for 086. We look at plates on walks, and sometimes while driving, depending on conditions. It’s slightly obsessive. Carl was watching a movie last night, and found himself looking at the license plate numbers in the movie. No, it would not have counted.
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April 3, 2026 at 5:16 pm |
Love those trees with the blue sky! It’s kind of surprising that the mountain wasn’t out. We used to play license plate games on road trips with the daughters. We did get obsessive! “Boys in the Boat” is one of my favorite non-fiction books; I made my dad read it and he loved it too.
April 3, 2026 at 5:22 pm |
Growing up we played going through the alphabet from letters on signs and billboards. We drove up to the upper peninsula enough times we knew where the signs we needed were.