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Happy New Year, Troll edition

Happy New Year! I hope you began as you mean to go on. For us, New Year’s Day was spent with the (grown) kids. They came for brunch (cinnamon rolls, cheesy scrambled eggs, mimosas, fake bacon) and then we headed out for a visit with a troll.

Ole Bolle, and a human scale door

This is Ole Bolle, one of a series of oversized trolls by Thomas Dambo. This is the only one in the Portland area; the rest of this series are around the Puget Sound in Washington. But there are over 100 around the world!

He’s made of recycled wooden pallets, and he’s BIG.

I love how he’s peering into the house, looking for snacks.

Don’t look now!

We extended our outing with a 3 mile walk along the Rock Creek Greenway, a wetlands area. Lots of ducks and evidence of beavers (gnawed tree trunks and limbs).

Wouldn’t this plumage pattern make a great sweater yoke?

A little bit of knitting, and the day was complete. How did you start 2024?