As you probably know, on May 1st there were big demonstrations by immigrants and their supporters all over the country. Seattle was no different. The demonstrations here were huge, with probably around 50,000 marching through the street. Seattle is an immigrant friendly town, so the cops were supportive, and so was the local government. I […]

After Cedar came back from the research cruise in August, we went on a lovely roadtrip. First we drove to Spokane (pronounced spo-kan) in the new prius for the lovely wedding of our lovely friends Katie and Tim! We hit a crazy storm on the way out, with aggressive tumbleweeds and horizontal rain and everything. […]

Well, I finally went on an oceanography research cruise for my work. The Cruise was roughly 3 weeks at sea, aboard Woods Hole’s research ship Knorr. We started in Panama City, steamed for a couple of days to the Costa Rica Upwelling Dome off the coast of Costa Rica. We steamed in circles for a […]

Ali, Tina and I went on a short hike up Tiger Mountain. When we arrived at the top we had about 20 seconds of view, then clouds overtook us. Still a fun and worthwhile time. We saw some sweet slugs, and I took a few arty pics. See the pics!

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Ali and I went on a lovely hike to Ingalls Lake. We started early to try to get good light. We wanted to be on the trail by 7 am, but didn’t start until 8 am. The light was past perfect, but was still pretty nice. Views were lovely, and the lake lived up to […]