Sunday At Boulder Falls Wilderness Trail

Having been denied access to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (to damn many people), we decided to give the Boulder Falls River trail a go. There were more cars there than I have ever seen but I usually only go during work days.

Tuscan Chicken Scramble At Collectors Choice

Back when I worked for SolutionMakers, we used to go out for lunch every couple weeks. One of our primary places was a place called Collectors Choice in Snohomish and one of my favorite dishes was the Chicken Tuscan Scramble. Snapped this picture with the iPhone.

Yard Dog

Snapped this picture last week from the iPhone after coming back from a run.

Carkeek Park After Client Meeting

Last week, I had to drop off some files to a client down in Ballard. I have a pair of clients down that way and have driven by Carkeek Park a number of times. When I noticed that it was listed in my 60 Hikes book, decided to take Bogie with me and check it out.

Ducks With Bogie

For about a month, a pair of ducks have been residing in the ditch along our morning walks on Interurban Blvd. Every day, they let Bogie get closer and closer before they freak out. Snapped these last week on my iPhone and forgot about them. This day, they seemed to pretty much ignore the wonder dog.

Sunday Morning On Centennial Trail

First off, stopped by McDonalds for the egg mcmuffin special ... had to take a snap of the billboard outside. I know that I'm a bit of a billboard prude ... but ... really... three hundred dollars for 3 mini meals? Vanna ... can I buy a decimal point please?

Playing with the camera while driving ... just snapping pictures without looking and this one is a little interesting.

Bogie ... the logger.


Passed by this baseball diamond a number of years and thought I’d detour off for a couple quick pictures.


Bogies goes for a quick dip into the mountain fed stream and immediately realizes ... that is pretty damn cold.

Meadowdale County Park (after a client meeting)

I had the mother of a high school student give me a call to help with her daughters FileMaker database. I’ve been in the FileMaker related database market for about 20 years and this was a new one on me! We agreed it would be best for me to come over to her home and work through it together. I noticed she was in Edmonds Washington and pulled out my 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of Seattle book, just to see if there was a trail in the neighborhood. Indeed, there was one listed that we had not visited, the Meadowdale County Park listed as trail 40 on page 174. It is listed as a 2.5 mile hike, just about perfect to do after our meeting, so the wonder dog came along with me for this client trip (although he stayed in the truck for the session).

Lots of very tall trees on the start of the hike that goes downward towards the Puget Sound beach.

These stairs look delightful from this perspective (top going down) but are a bit more challenging on the return trip trucking upwards.

I’ve seen many interesting trees growing out of the stumps but this one with its elephant trunk was quite amazing.

Down at the beach and bogie immediately goes for a quick swim. He was on virtual puppy uppers when he saw it ... movie enclosed below.

Here you can see the tunnel (flooded with a couple inches of running water) that you have to go through under the train tracks to get to the beach.

A classic “on the picnic bench” pose, a regular occurrence for this blog!

Here is the wonder dog in my lame attempt to capture his joy at the moment.

Lunch On The Sammamish River Trail

I had a training appointment cancel out today, needed to run some errands and the sun came out for a while. So the bogiemiester and I headed down to the Sammamish River Trail in Woodinville and headed in the Bothell direction (vs the Redmond direction we usually frequent).




Here you can see a bit of the trail as we made our way to the Bothell Landing park. Lots of little kids came up to pet Bogie ... but ... he didn’t give them much attention because they forgot to bring a piece of cheese with them.

Lots of birds at Bothell Landing and here you can see Bogie fasinated by some geese. I had tried to get some pictures of a run in he had with a wild chicken a little farther down the trail. Alas, the pictures didn’t come out well.


Here you can see a park bench that has a pair of bronze sneakers attached to it and a plaque in the front of the bench.

Oh yeah, did a very unhealthy meal afterward and snapped this picture in the drive through.

Sunday Morning At Coal Creek Parkway (2)

Some more pictures last Sundays trip to Coal Creek Parkway. I actually make an appearance in these!

Bogie Has Fun With My Rain Gear Hat

Sunday Morning At Coal Creek Parkway

The weather was great today and we made an early morning attempt to do a trail. The last couple times I’ve tried to do the Coal Creek Parkway trail, it was closed. That was just last fall, so we had backup plans if this trail was denied to us again. No such problem! It was open and the trail was in great shape.


A couple pictures of the waterfall that we went underneath.