Orange...

Cathedral tree hiking trail

I had today off... So Roseby and I decided we are going hiking. We hiked up to the cathedral tree and also to the Astoria column and back... 3 miles worth of walking and alot of straying around for photos. It was a boatload of fun =). Now I'm suffering the aftermath of all that on the small of my back.. Ouchie!

Some photos from today... and the rest are here

Spring music...

Then there is CLOVER...

We found this after we released Hoppy. I was taking pics of some blade of grass when I saw it hop and was so scared of us that it jumped into the water and nearly drowned. Mara rescued it and we took pictures... I started a blog called Mara & Merino's adventures and going to write in that and put the link in here.

Check out Clover.

Hoppy goes home...

We released PrinCESS Hoppy back in where we found HER. (Yeah, we found out she's a girly...) She's a Oregon Red legged frog.

My prince charming is a bullfrog named Prince Hoppy

My coworker Mara and I went out rock hunting yesterday after we had lunch at the resturant. We went down to a creek to get some nice smooth rocks so the kids could paint it for letter "R" week. We had to move farther down the creek and Mara hopped over the water to a rock bank and was getting some rocks while I stood there a bit hesitant not wanting to fall in or slip... Plus I had to use the bathroom really bad and in order for me to keep my mind off of that (babbling creek didn't help one bit either), I started to explore.

I was sad I didn't bring my camera along, cuz we weren't really planning to be out there anyways... Just then I spotted him. He was all snug on a tree stump with ferns growing around.. he looked so majestic. I showed him to Mara and decided we were gonna come home and grab the camera. We also stopped by to grab Mara's daughter Morgyn from the church and grabbed the camera and came back to the location. We were gone for a good hour and the froggie was still in the same spot.

I was getting ready to take pic when I noticed the camera wouldn't turn on... Well, I forgot to check the battery, it was in there, it was recharging at home! UGH. I checked for the memory card and not the battery. Sooo... we decided to frognap the dude and named him Prince Hoppy. We have at the daycare for the kids to see... We gonna take him back in a few days so he doesn't have a heart attack cuz of the kids... He won't quit staring at us... so creepy.

Mara went and got some live crickets for him.. and he wasn't too hungry. I went over to check on him.. and saw a tiny cricket outside of the habitat.. He saw me and went right back inside the hole he came from. HAHA. That was funny. Now all the kids are saying I'm gonna kiss the frog so I can get a prince charming. First it was the cow, and now the frog!

Starry globes

The sun was peaking through the clouds and hit the drops just right. I had to crop the clutters outta the image.

First of the season

Zoo fever!

When you are sick of looking at people, just go to the zoo zoo zooooo. Spring would be a perfect time to check out the zoo with new babies coming and all!

Photoshoot with a ladybug

This is how I found the ding dong





Original version

Down the street...

Old friend...

My old buddy Rhea was in town from Florida and stopped by with Roseby. It was nice to see her and her son. The last time I saw them was when Sammy was a baby! Don't mind the freaky looking person next to her.

You wouldn't believe what happened!

I got off a little early from work today. It was absolutely gorgeous outside! This is the first time in I dunno how long I was outside without a coat on waahoooo!

Anyways... I wanted to take Jojo and Tiny to the park, but apparently they already went to the park and played their butt's content so I decided to take Maya for a walk instead. I took my camera with me.

Took a couple of random pics, and then I made it for this really steep hill with skinny steps and surrounded by hedges... Took a couple of pics of the cherry blossoms, and made it up for the hill. I survived. Maya was dragging me up there, good grief that dog has too much energy!

Then we made our way to our house and I saw a patch of purple flowers at the back of the church which is across the street from our house... I dragged Maya over and was bracing down to get a picture when I noticed... a LADYBUG!!!!! Ooooooh boy. I took a few pics of it. It had it's head down into the flower as if it's drunk or something... I picked the flower, but the sucker started stirring. So I put it into a gentle fist and tugged at Maya sniffing here and there and we darted back home...

I put the lil sucker into a container and he/she was going nuts trying to escape. I thought I'll take pictures in my room, so that when it escapes it escapes into my room and not out into the big world like last time *fumes*. The dinghie was impossible and uncooperative. I dunno what's with me and impossible models! I took a few decent ones...

Most of the time the bug was showing it's butt to me, I supose it was telling me it's impression of me. It kept flying off to my orange curtains to get away from me... Maya was in the room with me and was quite curious about the bug. I was afraid that she might eat it off my hand or something... but nothing like that happened. The final time it flew off I dunno where it went, I couldn't find it.

I keep picturing in my head, the ladybug staying in my room for ages and turning into some mutant bug and eat me alive.. EEK! It prolly got under my blanket and when I'm asleep it would most probably bite me! If anyone is likely to get attacked by a ladybug, that anyone would be yours truly! Gawd, I hope I don't come back as a ladybug in my next lifetime.

I put the pics up when my photohosting website behaves...!