Future Climber

I liked yesterday's apple pie so much I baked another one (flavored with maple pumpkin butter this time)

Maple Apple Pie for Heathryr's birthday tomorrow morning

7:26 am taken while taking out the garbage

Happy 19th birthday Kris!

I took this picture over my back as we rode out of the orchards to press the apples

Blackberry oatmeal for breakfast...missing my Squamish vacation

About to start making three batches of roasted tomato sage soup

Lemon Curd left from the wedding buffet and berries from the farmers market = TART!

Avett Brothers Concert at Deer Valley (no zoom!)

What I was most excited to take home as wedding reception leftovers

Dessert Buffets by Katie and Alicia

After all the baking was done all we wanted were french fries

Strawberry Shortbread Swirls, the first of hundreds of wedding desserts to be made

Sunrise clouds over the pasture

A new cookbook arrangement (of maybe a third of my cookbooks)

Angels food cake batter all fluffy and lemony

A test batch of Strawberry Shortbread Swirls

Champagne grapes from Bountiful Baskets

Moonlight Swimming

Just hangin out in my pool after work

I'm pretty sure I just made the cutest wedding cookies EVER

Swell Season concert (if you sit up on the hill it's free)

Salt City Burger is my new favorite…with bacon ground into the burger cooked so it's still pink inside and fresh guacamole…I was full for 2 days

First tomatoes from the garden

Apple Pie Bites

Taking engagement pictures makes everyone a little crazy in the end

Quinn and Xavier at Silver Lake

I brushed out Simon's hair

Alec turns one

Backyard sunset on some distant rainshowers across town

Surprise guests at my house, Squashy Joshy (and a couple beardy hippy looking kids in the background eating flan)

Storm clouds gathering somewhere over Idaho

The Skagit River in Washington

Oceanside climbing up on The Malamute

Memorial Crack

Jake going up Deidre

Venturing out onto Alice Lake

Slabby! (appropriately named Satellite Dish)

Log stairs at The Smoke Bluffs

First day of climbing in Squamish

On a walk around town after stopping for brunch in Bellingham WA

Lubing the cams

Xavier with some farmer's market watermelon

On top of the library (Dad likes to point to things in pictures)

That real kind of buttercream frosting made with egg whites instead of shortning.

A walk around Silver Lake

Hiking at Alta with the Mannings…all the Mannings

Unexpected surprise

Hall of Self Portraits at the Springville Art Museum