Nicer Weather

Spring weather seems to be peeking around the bend here in NW Oregon! Here are some pictures surrounding the theme:

Hiking! Yay! This is a falls along Horsetail Creek in the Columbia Gorge. I saw lots of people with lots of dogs. Pretty standard. One odd thing though - a guy on a super strenuous stretch of trail smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer while hiking. I breathed in his disgusting secondhand smoke through two hole switchbacks as I ascended and he descended. Ugh!
Also, for those who have asked about seeing my new hair color, here it is. I told you it was REALLY close to my natural color.

Kitties! Sunshine! Lilies! Yes, it's almost perfect. If only the cats would stay off the table...

Cats riding bikes - you can't make this stuff up.

Sunday Drive

Yesterday, Slav and I took a little Sunday drive out into the Columbia Gorge with the objective of hiking the Horsetail Falls trail. It is a really short drive out there and I had read many positive reviews of the route on various websites. Unfortunately, I forgot that Slav doesn't really like to hike very much and we ended up turning around after only 20min of hiking. On the plus side, though, we did get to the first waterfall, Upper Horsetail Falls.