Weekend highlights

Little visitors outside our motel room yesterday.

The chocolate coconut pecan cake weighing in at 15 pounds (no kidding) from the 5B's gluten-free bakery in the town of Concrete.  It was amazing!!

A morning walk and picnic at the Mazama Suspension Bridge along the Methow River.

Checking out the salmon below.  A couple of giant Chinook cruised by underneath and headed up a tiny tributary.  An honor really to witness the very end of their long journey up the Columbia River.

Family portrait...

Maya and the much too-low river...

And an ominous sight on the drive home.  An enormous fire plume flared up about 30 miles south of Twisp.  We lost power last night for about 5 hours. Hopefully no repeat of that tonight-- headed home tomorrow over the North Cascades Highway.