Last Day of Winter / First Day of Spring in Photos

 Karen Molenaar Terrell makes a habit of writing about--and photographing--her daily outings around Bow and Bellingham, describing her encounters with people and their dogs. It's her way, I think, of appeciating the mundane that is all too easy to overlook, especially in troublous times. I know I'm not the only one who both appreciates hearing about her adventures and occasionally attempts to emulate her. 

 Of course, I'm nothing like so social as Karen so I end up taking photos but not having a ton of human interactions. What results for me are things like this blahdeblah update of mostly photos, taken--as the title above suggests--over the course of two days. 

 I went for a bike ride on the last day of winter. It was supposed to be just a quick ride to Mud Bay to pick up cat litter and treats, but once we were out, Bessie obviously wanted to go a little farther so I tacked on a few miles and stopped to look at stuff along the way.

 One of my first "swing around and look at that more closely" moments was this sign in front of someone's house. I assumed it would be a note about not leaving dog poop behind--a popular bit of signage in Seattle--but instead it was a bit more whimsical:

Not a great joke, maybe, but I appreciate the concept.

 Not too far from there, I came across a seriously encrusted car:

Goddess Kring helpfully included some ID on their dash so I've got a link.

 I was unaware that Monday, March 24, is National Cocktail Day*; that is certainly one I keep in my heart every day of the year. (And, similarly, I'm pretty sure that every day is "Repect Your Cat Day.")

March calendar behind the register at Mud Bay.

 Of course, even when I'm pretending to escape the political, it's still around--especially in my neck of West Seattle where quite a few people still have their "Harris/Walz" signs up.  I also encountered (and appreciated) these:

A concrete way to help Ukraine: a Seattle fundraiser dinner!

This particular house previously had a cat ladies sign

 But back to just appreciating the sights:

The West Seattleite will recognize the Admiral Theatre signage on this Little Free Library

 I shifted Bessie so we weren't blocking the sidewalk because a man with a fairly determined stride [a word that is seriously overused as a verb yet it's what I want here] was approaching the LFL. He stopped at the library to return one book and then spent some time considering his options for his next read. Were I Karen, I might have engaged him in conversation. Being me, I just got back on Bessie, meaning I don't know what he picked. No, I continued on my merry until I had to stop to admire the Cascades.

Bessie felt it was high time she was featured in a photo.

 I don't know if the camera exists to truly capture how fine the views of the local mountain ranges (not to mention Rainier) are from West Seattle; certainly my cell phone isn't up to the job. I'd say that it also fell short when I took the final snap of the outing, though the dirty window glass certainly doesn't help either.

 Since I said this was a post of two days, I imagine I should include at least a  few of the photos I took yesterday, intending to post a "Happy Equinox" note on the FB and BS. That didn't happen, what with one thing and another, but it's still spring, no? I am anxious about the apricot; it's getting the few blossoms it's going to get, but it's still not warm enough for the mason bees.

Apricot blossoms against the sky

The clematis doesn't care how cold it is; it says it's time to bloom!

*World Cocktail Day, however, is May 13.