the sun came out again!

painted driftwood candle holder

We have been collecting lots of driftwood pieces this spring so now I get

to create lots of fun driftwood pieces. 

insulators as succulent containers

I love old insulators & have collected a few around the house but got bored of them just sitting on a sill & had some succulents to plant. 

Now we have some green & a pop of neon hanging in our room.

I used this tutorial from Refinery 29 to create the hangers out of neon pink masonry string from Home Depot + succulents + glass insulators.

Grouse Creek Falls

 looks like an REI ad

we found two(!) four leaf clovers in the same patch on our hike 

up the Wylie Knob trail

Osprey Rescue

We saw this guy on our walk Friday morning at about 11:15am. Another woman on the trail warned us that he was there & something was definitely wrong because he did not move when we (Dan, I, & our dog) got near... I called around to a bunch of places trying to find someone to help & was finally directed via Idaho Fish & Game to call Birds of Prey Northwest. The woman there told me that in order to help the Osprey we had to capture it & bring it to a vet in Post Falls. I went for a run around 4:00pm & it was still there in the same spot which I concluded meant that no one else was going to do anything about it, or he had not been noticed. He was down right near the water at the bottom of a 10 foot section of steep rocks so hard to see unless you were looking. When Dan got off work we recruited a friend & attempted to capture the very large bird of prey following the biologist from Birds of Prey Northwest's instructions.

When Jake & Dan got near to him the first time he floated out into the lake a couple of feet. His wings seemed fine but he seemed unable to fly. Strangely he swam back to shore even closer to the boys than he was before. 

 "Hey little buddy!" Mind you his talons are a good two inches long, 

so real nervous at this point.

Sorry about the poor quality on these shots, we left the camera at home so I took these on my iPhone.

We just wrapped him up in the towel like a baby.

I think that we were supposed to cover his head. 

We did not & it worked out for us. He seemed to like to be able 

to see what was going on.

When we spoke to the biologist later she was amazed that

we were able to capture him because the x-rays showed no fractures.

They were not sure what is wrong with him, but if he is able to be released back into the wild they will put him back at the same place & let us help release him.

He did grip onto the towel with his beak like this for about 30 minutes. 

A safety thing? Just glad that it was not one of our fingers!

Peeking out of his box during the hour drive to Post Falls.

Storms rolled in during the evening on our way home so really glad
that he did not have to spend the night out on the rocks by the cold water.

dew drop morning

The fist day of June was rainy here in North Idaho,

but made for some fabulous water droplets!

a huge bush in front is blooming with these flowers!

my first terrarium is done