Category: Outdoors

• Slow Craft: the tale of the perpetually patched pants

  

  I squatted down to adjust the height of the lawnmower and the entire butt of my pants split right out! Down the middle and to the side in the shape of a crooked “Y” – I wasn’t mad, I look forward to big mends like this.

• Slow Craft: the perfect sun protection hat

  

  My primary interests this spring put me outside for long stretches of time, subsequently exposing my skin to the sun more than I’d like: hiking, camping, landscape photography, gardening, etc. I wanted to create a custom-fit sun protection hat for myself that ticked all of my “must have” boxes: 100% natural domestic wool with natural […]

• Rainbow sherbet at Dry Falls

  

  Rainbow sherbet at Dry Falls. What was once the worlds largest waterfall 10,000 years ago, now barren remnants. Part of the channeled scablands of eastern Washington. ~ EK

• Cherry blossoms and power lines

  

  Happy fluffy signs of spring 🙂 ~ EK

• Liriodendron tulipifera in snow

  

  Last weekend I noticed snow had collected in the dried remains of the fruit on this Tulipwood Tree. I was struck by how much they looked like tiny snow cones and attempted to capture their adorableness with my new-to-me 75-300mm zoom lens.

• Tiny Buttermilk Pancakes in The Wild

  

  While watching the sunrise over frozen hills from my kitchen window, I ate a single perfect pancake, complete with a cartoon quality pat of melting butter and a hefty glug of maple syrup. I cleaned up while the leftover pancakes cooled, used a cookie cutter to cut them into several small circles, and dusted them with powdered sugar before tossing them into a travel container. I then brewed two thermoses of coffee and patiently waited for K to wake up.