Four Part Harmony

Here’s a few pictures from our (mostly) rainy weekend.
Yesterday morning the rain was really coming down in sheets here in Portland, but we just didn’t feel like staying cooped up inside.
We got ourselves all bundled up and headed up into Washington to an alleged chanterelle patch.
The place was about an hour and a half from town, up in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
We never did find any chanterelles, but we had some fun anyway.

Here’s Nicki and Anna, at the little campground just into the National Forest. We still don’t really have any real rain gear for Anna, so this snow suit is serving that purpose for the time being. She actually really likes it, and it kept her good and dry and warm, so I guess it works just fine for now.

Anna, smiling about as much as she is willing to when a camera is pointing at her.

We did find a few mushrooms (quite a few actually), just not the kinds we were hoping for. These were growing on the trunk of a moss covered big-leaf maple.

This is Moulton Falls on the East Fork of the Lewis River. We saw several groups of kayakers heading out for the day. Fall is kayaking season in Oregon, a wetsuit is not-optional.

Soup weather is upon us. Here’s Anna helping shred cabbage for the soup. We have been getting cabbage from the farm, and we have quite a few potatoes, so we made some colcannon soup. It’s an Irish potato and cabbage soup that we first had a year or two ago in Bemidji. Anna liked helping make it, but wasn’t so hot on the soup (and normally she loves any kind of soup).

It was actually pretty nice this afternoon, and Nicki and Anna went to the park. It looks like they spent some time playing in the leaves.

A cute self portrait, Nicki and Anna.

Hope the fall weather is treating you all well, wherever you are.