Day: March 5, 2009

Are some of Leilani’s favorite activities. I think maybe not so much the baking, although she enjoys that too, but the eating of the baked goodies…

Like the Happy Day Cake (decorated by Leilani, blueberries were not enough, it needed some tomatoes…)

Our yellow Rainbow house or Hale Anuenue with a real rainbow. We had a lot of rainbows lately… Our house called rainbow house because we have no eaves and Swarovski crystals in every window, if there is sunlight, there are rainbows somewhere in the house.

Oh how peaceful she can be….

They are always peaceful during these rainy days.

Another baking adventure. A Gingerbread man! Leilani had wanted one since Christmas, she loved the Gingerbread Baby book I found a really good recipe and modified it a lot, almost no sugar, all honey and whole wheat, turned out great just baked a little too long. Leilani decorated the leftovers, they looked a little creepy so we ate them first.

Can I eat it now?

Dressup…

Mt Tam is my favorite Mountain in the Bay Area. I think I have hiked every trail on it, and I was so happy to go back there last Saturday.

Leilani walked the distance of one fairy-tale in the beginning and one “Adventure in the Garden” shaman story later on in the hike. She had a runny nose and a little cough, and wanted to be carried all the time

We had left home late, and after just half a mile it was time to eat lunch. We found this cool spot under a fallen tree next to a bridge and pretended to be bridge trolls.

The bridge next to the lunchspot

Of course after lunch we also had to climb the tree…

The waterfalls started small…

…but as we progressed on the Cataract trail they got bigger

Fetid Adders Tongue was the first wildflower we encountered – it was still cool on the Mountain.

Out in the meadows there were a lot more – tiny – flowers

We saw a few mushrooms, but only one edible one ( not the one below) – we didn’t pick it. I had found nice mushrooms in the past weeks in the city, but did not dare to eat them because of pollution. Just one time Leilani and I picked one, a bolete nice and firm and big and fresh, and took it home, and I was almost relieved when it was all full or worms, I would have worried too much (says someone who ate Cesium Mushrooms 2 and 3 years after Chernobyl…)

Fairy Slippers are one of the more common orchids on Mt Tam

Indian Warrior

Manzanite, and below Baby Blue Eyes