SCRAPS AND SCRIBBLES
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I have a dead-of-winter birthday awkwardly lodged between the excitement of the holidays and what is typically a long, lonely stretch of cold-as-hell, gloomy weather. January blues. So I haven’t historically been big on celebrating my birthday - it’s tough to muster up the mood (or the guest list).
But this year, we took our new truck, loaded up our bikes, and went to Whidbey Island for some Puget Sound views and seafood. Pictured here, a few favorite views from that weekend.
In July we moved to a cool 1970s house atop a hill on Seattle’s Eastside and enjoyed a long, mild summer and moody fall. Then December arrived and we quickly learned that the elevation of our neighborhood means it has its own odd microclimate: in wintertime, it is consistently a degree or two colder than the rest of town, the roads ice over, and we’re shoveling snow while folks at the bottom of the hill just get a bit of rain.
We figured at some point we’d be trapped atop our hill if we didn’t get a form of transportation that wasn’t a rear wheel drive, low-slung sports car. Enter the Toyota Tacoma, our new bad weather buggy and trail-driving buddy, which we’ve been spending January and February taking out to muddy gravel paths along the Snoqualmie River.
It’s phenomenally capable, and with it in our lives, I’ve been able to access views and vistas I’d normally not be able to reach on foot or by ordinary car. My fiancé put it when he said we’ve been able to pursue a “lonelier” vibe in recent photos and you know - I don’t hate it. I think lonely and moody is a gorgeous look.
Sometime in July we took a casual drive into the lower Cascades, not really expecting anything, just intending to kill time. As it turns out, the most memorable mini road trips are the ones that surprise you. We departed under overcast skies with dimensionless light, and reached a scenic point just as the first rays of golden hour shot across the mountainsides.
