Adieu to 2014!

This week, winter has brought us cold, mostly clear weather.

I was surprised to find a pink sky in the morning, captured on the bottom of fluffy little clouds above the spruce trees.

The sun is already setting noticeably later, at about 4:45, with a completely different palette of colors.

Happy 2015!

December, aka stormy weather

While our temperatures are mild, December has delivered lots of wind and rain.  The current rain event is forecast to drop up to 10 inches of rain in about 48 hours.

Dec. 10th surf

Dec. 10th surf

Dec. 12th, nicer weather

Today, from the car

 

Today, from the car

Today, from the car (at a fish market)

Ah rain! It's what keeps our population from growing too rapidly.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This morning, a salamander greeted me at the front door as I headed out for the newspaper.  The mild temperature and moist weather is perfect salamander weather.

Later, I went out to gather half the herbs for our parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme stuffing.  These home-grown herbs will flavor our stuffed sole, topped with wild bolete mushroom sauce.

Here are a couple of fall photos from a month ago, in Napa.

I shop in the woods

Now that the fall rains have begun in earnest, the mushroom season has moved into high gear.  Today I found the first king boletes of the season, in the woods.

I looked every place that I could think of, and came home with about 6 pounds of king boletes, and a handful of chanterelles.

Three in the hand, then three in the box

Today was a calm, warm, sunny day, which is rather unusual for us.

In the morning, I harvested some artichokes for dinner, from our garden box.

Then in the afternoon, we went fishing in the local bay.  We came home with three Chinook salmon in the ice chest.  Two nice big ones, and one small jack.

The first of the season

After  weeks of poor fishing, the harvest moon  has delivered the first Chinook of the season to our house.  So it feels like fall.

 And so tasty!

Hot, hot, hot

We broke the record here today.  Officially, Waldport's high temperature was listed as 92 degrees.  However, our weather station recorded higher.  Weird weather for the Oregon coast!

Triple digits, oh my!