Easter Weekend Album

A view of the Kootenai River from the Copeland Bridge. 

This past Easter weekend offered a potpourri of scenes, people, food and activities. 

All great, including the weather.   

Whether it was Friday-night family dinner at Sweet Lou's or lunch at Jimmy's Pub in Creston, British Columbia or a Lovestead Easter Sunday brunch or Willie's assortment of home-cooked, flavorful meats and veggies at Boundary Creek, which separates the United States from Canada, our tummies and our minds were filled to the brim with delight. 

And, yes, there were some birthday presents exchanged.  Willie and Debbie had just returned from a week on the Oregon Coast where they stayed in proximity of Flamingo Jim's.  

The place along the highway with all the yard-art items fascinated Annie decades ago when we would  drive to the coast for Spring Break and stay in the "Blue Motel," at Rockaway Beach, not too far down the highway from Flamingo Jim's. 

Decades passed and Willie married another Flamingo Jim's fan from Boise named Debbie. 

When the two compared notes about their childhood adventures in Rockaway, they decided that they probably saw each other way back when they were kids in a motel pool or maybe at Flamingo Jim's.  

Flamingo Jim's has become a family icon, just like Bigfoot, and so, what more appropriate gift for Dad than to give him a Flamingo Jim's bag stuffed with a commemorative T-shirt. 

Fifty years of Flamingo Jim's, and to think that Love family members were fervent fans in its early years. 

Bill will wear the T-shirt proudly.  

 

Our border crossing along the Pend Oreille River north of Newport. 

The agents at both crossings were very friendly and talkative when we passed through on Saturday. 

A big bud about to burst open in Creston, British Columbia.

Our favorite picnic stop is located within the Fish and Game wildlife habitat area in the Kootenai Valley. 

The wetlands were alive with duck and goose activity yesterday. 

I don't think I've ever seen nearly as many ducks on past visits. 

Bill's Easter brunch plate at the Lovestead.

 

Always gotta find a geocache, and Annie did so at the Ione park on Saturday. 

Foster soaking up some sun at the Salmo River just north of the Canadian Border crossing at Nelway. 

 

On Saturday Bill, Annie, the dogs and I stopped at the beautiful municipal park in Ione, Wash., where civic-minded adults were preparing the grounds for the annual Easter egg hunt. 

A few early birds showed up, well-equipped for egg collecting. 

Not quite the usual numbers for our group who go to this picnic area every Easter. 

Annie's flight to back to Seattle left mid afternoon so Bill took her to the airport while the rest of us headed north. 

It was an absolutely fantastic day for picnickers and their pets.  

Dogs outnumbered people 6 to 5.