Author: Caroline

Because Sunday Sails are on hold, the Center for Wooden Boats has two rowboats you can reserve for free. I picked a later time slot (nicer light) but I hadn’t realized what party scene Lake Union is on a Saturday night! Butt cheeks and beer, and very loud music. The other rowboat was reserved by…

Summer bucket list hot ticket item: Remlinger Farms! The boys LOVE it. The older they get, the braver they get, and the wimpier I get.

Picked up our favorite snacks (bubble tea and tofu pudding from Meet Fresh) to enjoy at our favorite playground (Surrey Downs neighborhood park). A banner day!

I always wanted to see an orca in the Puget Sound!

A new decade! A wise editor once told me, “I wish I had the body I had in my 20s with the brain I have in my 30s.” Yeah, I get that now. What do I need to know about my 40s? Day 1 of my 40s: Learned that you can’t eat as much cake…

The kids get such a thrill out of feeding animals at the Olympic Game Farm, though driving through a herd of hungry bison makes us nervous. Some of the bison are bigger than the cars!

It felt SO GOOD to stretch my photo muscles and shoot a newspaper assignment again. I miss newspaper photography; it just doesn’t get to happen much in this chapter of my life. My photos and story about Sequim’s lavender farms are in The Seattle Times here. World’s worst photo assistants. I’d fire them, but I…

Before and after, summer hair chop! Photos by Paul.

A ferry ride never disappoints. Those views! The Seattle skyline, the mountains, and this time, we were even treated to a fire boat display.

What living with me is like: Green. No, white! No, green again!