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Twisp Fourth of July Parade

Yesterday Twisp celebrated Independence Day with a homegrown parade. Participants gathered at Twisp Works to prepare for the four block march down Glover Street. There were lots of dogs, bicycles, some horses, Roller Derby Girls, polticians, old cars and firefighters. It was a perfect day for a parade.

His parade face

It’s an election year

Vote with your feet

Not sure what they are voting for

Appropriately dressed spectators

Derby Girls don’t like candy under their skates

There goes the winner of the Doggie Dash!

Cast members from The Music Man hamming it up

The theme of the day was Superheroes

Why is this man smiling? He is running for office.

Firefighters – true Superheroes!

Otto

Scenes from a walk

I confess. I like Instagram. Ok. It’s alright to like Instagram. And sometimes it is just easier to carry the phone rather than a camera or both.

Lots of small wildflowers blooming on our hill now. The Balsamroot and Lupine are past their peak at this elevation. Now, there are more blues to be seen, some pinks and yellows too.

Bitterroot, Lewisia rediviva. On our hillside, it is much whiter, less pink than in other places, such as Patterson Mountain

Cat’s ear lily, Calachortus lyalli

A yellow violet (an oxymoron of a name), Viola sp. I don’t know which one.

I’ve always referred to this as a Brodiaea but looking at my field guide, I think its name has been changed to Triteleia grandiflora

Evidence that our part time neighbors celebrated the holiday weekend riding up and down our road on quads while drinking and tossing their litter around.

More bitterroot

And tired dogs.

The Road Home

Luna and I had a great visit in Montana. We did well at our first agility trial and even though we did not get any qualifications, we showed improvement throughout the weekend and had a couple of ‘clean’ runs. We will try it again sometime. Luna loved playing with her new buddy, the puppy – Gus! All things come to an end so we said our goodbye’s and headed down the 400 miles of road to home.

 

 Gus and his people

 

 Luna, we need to get going.

 

Serviceberry and pines

 

Balsamroot, serviceberry and pines

 

Lilypads on a pond in Idaho

 

An ancient apple tree in bloom shows that someone once tried to make a life in this wild wet place in Idaho

 

 

Happy Trails

Well, here we go. Off into the wild blue yonder. Deb, the house/dog sitter is here with her dog to add to our small pack and we are packed and flying across the country. Watch for some short posts and lots more photos after we return next month.

 

Luna says ‘that’s a lot of stuff – are you ever coming back?’

 

Sam says, ‘really? you’re leaving us?’

Winthrop Balloon Round Up – Day One

Lots of colorful hot air balloons dotted the landscape and skies this morning as the Round Up got into full swing. Yesterday we saw two balloons out; today there were more than a dozen! The big parking lot didn’t get fully plowed so balloons were launching from various sites on the edges of town – behind and in front of the Red Apple Market, at the Friendship Church and rumour has it tomorrow they will launch from Town Trailhead too. All for fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This post needed a dog, don’t you think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe two dogs.

 

This is a drone. Rumour has it that it will be making a video of a wedding to be held in one of the balloon baskets tomorrow! How exciting.