random pics that YOU have taken.......

[LEAKYSEALS951]

[Seahawk]

Kids are home for Easter: Toyota much? Taken from my LC

[rcooled]

[Jolly Amaranto]

Only two Toyotas in our clan gathering. A Rav4 and a Tundra. The others were a Jeep, Nissan, Hundai, Dodge, Ford and a Subaru. Dogs breakfast for sure.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Only two Toyotas in our clan gathering. A Rav4 and a Tundra. The others were a Jeep, Nissan, Hundai, Dodge, Ford and a Subaru. Dogs breakfast for sure.

pink evening primrose, indian painbrush, and texas dandelion are blooming too.

mason bee doing her thing

mason bee finished doing her thing

Huisache aka Sweet Acacia

Honey Mesquite

Herbetia

Pink Evening primrose w/guest

Bluestem Pricklypoppy, White Prickly poppy

winecup

lives in the "sidewalk"

[CurtEgerer]

[p911dad]

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by masraum

pink evening primrose, indian painbrush, and texas dandelion are blooming too.

There were a bunch of these just to the left in that photo.

[Ngrich99]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

There were a bunch of these just to the left in that photo.

Good stuff. The wild flower situation this year seems better than it was last year. We have more bluebonnets and other stuff around.

[berettafan]

Buddies daughter hitched a ride home from school for the weekend with the relative of a neighbor. He just wanted to get some hours. Beautiful plane I later found out is a RV-10. Kit plane with the nicest interior you could imagine.

Wish I’d learned to fly. Looks so fun.

[p911dad]

[72doug2,2S]

[Jolly Amaranto]

Spent a few days out near Fredericksburg, Texas in the Hill Country. Hiked to the top of Enchanted Rock. The roads around there are more fun to drive on than those down here along the coast.

[A930Rocket]

I thought it said Tallywacker Marine. 😂

Edit: tallywacker is a southern term for your bojo.

[john70t]

A decent-sized patch of solar panels.
If they spaced them out a few yards and grew "shade" or "semi-sun" crops in between, they could lower watering costs and create dual-use of the land.
Even support the local wildlife eating the insects who are eating the plants.






A good example of intelligent dual-usage in a pure urban setting
(i.e. returning to your nice cool car, after hours of shopping, and not having to worry about unintentionally baked potatoes):

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/20/us/solar-power-on-big-box-store-rooftops-climate/index.html
At the IKEA store in Baltimore, installing solar panels on the roof and over the store's parking lot cut the amount of energy it needed to purchase by 84%, slashing its costs by 57% from September to December of 2020, according to the company. (The panels also provide some beneficial shade to keep customers' cars cool on hot, sunny days.)

[john70t]

Those buildings are a lot bigger than the picture indicates.

[Skip Newsom]

Springtime get away to the Washington coast, we get teaser emails from Kalaloch Lodge for 20% off.
That will do!

Decided 3 nights would be good and booked it a couple months back- we do seem to have amazing luck with great weather windows on our adventures, this was no exception.
It's a 6 hour endeavor including the 1/2 hour ferry boat ride from Coupville to Port Townsend out on the Peninsula.

Saw a few more "new to us" beaches North of the main coastal beach access highway 101 provides by driving back inland to Forks and back out to the coast at La Push.
For some odd reason we had never seen the beaches out there... so we wandered them all and it was amazing!!
Low tides were also in our favor opening up miles of beautiful sand instead of the rocky driftwood strewn beach at high tides that are very difficult to traverse...
Over 20 miles on foot in two days, I slept great after all that fresh air, sunshine and exercise.

The new one's for us were Rialto, First, Second and Third beaches- can't for the life of me understand why they ran out of names for beaches, no doubt the natives had names for them.













Anybody missing a Buda?
I know where it is!
About a mile north of parking on Rialo Beach... ya gotta watch for it, all I saw from the beach was a shiny head

[Skip Newsom]

Glad our forefathers had the wisdom to create the Olympic Nation park area, the beaches are unspoiled and bit tough to access in places... I'm good with that!

It's been around a while-

Wiki write up:

President Theodore Roosevelt originally designated the park as Mount Olympus National Monument on March 2, 1909.
The monument was re-designated a national park by Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 29, 1938.





At 6' 4" I was dwarfed many many times by the size of trees washed up, I'd bet it was even more surreal a couple hundred years ago when it was only old growth driftwood

[john70t]