Category: Nature
The weather was ambiguous so we had no plan to go to a park, but then after treating the kids to treats at a cafe, it was quite nice out so we pulled into a nearest park from where we spontaneously mused some sunshine time.
There’s like a billion parks in and around Portland, if we had looked up for a park, we would have never found this one. But it turned out to be such a gem! There isn’t any impressive play structure here (who needs those anyways?) but beautiful mossy trees surrounds a small grassland.
Each of these trees have such character!
I adore the moss on the bark.
And the grassland is full of cute little white flowers.
The picnic area had a grill onto which someone have stenciled “Knowledge is Power.” Random, much?
We found a pretty country road while driving on Saturday.
And had a cupcake. This one is from SweetestThing Cupcakes. The thing that I loved about this cupcake is that it tasted like a really good cupcake, instead of a cake in a cupcake shape (which a lot of fancy cupcake tends towards). It had the most amazing frosting ever!
Our friend who had been a professional nanny in previous years offered to babysit for us. (I have much admiration for people who can deal with other people’s kids!) Todd and I left Immi & Ashland to go watch UFC at our friends for 30 minutes, and then went to opposite side of PDX to another friend’s welcome back to Portland party for about 40 minutes. Lucian came with us since he thinks that bottles and formula are yucky. Besides, Lucian is quiet and really no trouble. So ‘Yay!’ for social life, which has been somewhat sparse having been so busy this past year — thank you Jen!
We’ve been wanting to work on our garden but weather isn’t really in the mood for it! Amusingly though, our strawberry has survived through winter (it looks like it’s going to flower soon!) as has the rose which seems to just grow without much care here. Here’s apple mint we got at the farm recently awaiting trans-potting.
We made use of gorgeous spring weather to go to a herb farm. I don’t even know if my parents know this, but I really enjoyed going to the herb farm every year growing up in Seattle. I imagine the reason why I love the “garden chic” look despite that I’m a lousy gardener is because of that place. Anyhow, few minutes of poking around internet found us Red Ridge Farms located in Willamette Valley area which is famous for Oregon wineries. It would have been a 30 minute drive, but we forgot to make an exit and took a detour. This turned out to be a fun adventure because got to go on a two minute ferry ride just to cross the river!
There were lots of beautiful farm lands on the way.
Pretty vista from Red Ridge Farm.
I found cute little horsetails (I had to look it up, I just learned that’s what its called)!
We got cheese plate so that we can enjoy the sunshine. Immi loved the mini-pickles (why are they called gherkins? such a silly word!).
This little pot of daisy (? I’m not sure if it’s daisy) had the most beautiful colors ever. It was very modestly priced too, but I’m not good with flowers so I just took a picture and we got small pots of basil and rosemary for our garden.
We made use of the perfect weather to go to Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. I guess I’ve forgotten to realize that it’s definitely spring (weather has been strange here — it sprinkled snow 2 days ago!).
Needless to say, there were lots of tulips.
But I really loved the gears on their collection of antique tractors!
These gears look heavy and I love the colors of the peeling paint too.
Tulips aren’t really my favorite of flowers but the field was lovely and kids had lots of fun. The Pacific Northwest makes me love spring, not because it rains a lot in winter (which I don’t mind at all) but because it really is beautiful here. And I’m grateful for Immi, Ashland and Lucian — without them, I probably would just spend all my leisure time indoors with tea and craft and miss out on such a perfect day.
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