it's warmer here than NYC

i figure i won't be able to say that much, so i ought to take advantage of it. we went for a couple walks over the weekend with Neah. We are trying to get her more exercise to decrease her desire to eat shoes. i like to think it's working. It also gave me a chance to take some pictures of the beautiful scenery. We are always coming across views and saying that we wished we had the camera. this particular picture was taken along the Campbell Creek Trail. There's an entrance to the trail quite close to our house...lots of lovely little bridges crossing over the creek. These pictures were both taken from this little outlook bridge.... where i guess when it's warm the salmon go to spawn. According to the sign, there are four different kinds of salmon that you can see from the lookout. It is probably just less than a mile from the trail parking lot to the lookout thing. The first day it was warmer and we got an earlier start...we made it about twice the distance of the second before Neah's paws started getting cold.

i never really imagined going for walks in sub freezing weather. it's not so bad. i like it better when it's snowing for sure. Aside from that, not so much is new. There were these lovely ice sculptures in a park downtown that Adam and i went to look at on my birthday. My favorite was an enormous jaguar kind of creature....although there were two bear siblings with touching noses that were pretty dope. Some of the sculptures were so detailed. it is a lovely art....which clearly takes more precision and patience than i could ever muster. On principle--here are your cute Neah pics (post running like a banshee, neah, and trying to train neah).