My Everyday Photos

This is our sixth Christmas here! How can that be? It’s long enough to establish some holiday traditions. And one of my favorites is to ski with the dogs on Christmas afternoon. This year there is not enough snow to groom the trails at Big Valley so we went for a walk with dogs and friends instead.

Luna and Wyatt Ann are delighted to be out on the trail together again!

There goes Sky

Magnificent ponderosa pines

Juniper

Frosty Wonderland

Here comes Sky

And there goes Sky with Wyatt Ann right behind her

Methow River

Juniper was the only to get in the river

Cool stick

Down river

Frosty shapes coming out of the water

These plants were thriving under the ice

Along the trail

An enormous paper wasp nest leftover from summer

This should be a packed and groomed ski trail with a couple feet of snow and no grass showing through.

Wyatt Ann

Massive wheel line. Little dog.

Here she comes

And there she goes. Almost lift off!

What’s so funny?

I got a bone!

Ken left his pole back on the first part of the trail

Hey – wait for me

A boy and his dog

Here is an article about the economic impacts to our community in a low snow year.