Cowiche Canyon Preserve — Saturday, Apr. 7, 2018

I led my first Sagebrush Ramble of the season for the Cascadians today.  It was raining hard when I left the house and had only slacked off a little at the Chesterly Park parking lot.  Rudy was the only one to show up and with a forecast for 90% showers and windy, we decided just to walk Cowiche Canyon.  Of course there was no rain & little wind after we started walking and we even had quite a bit of sun.  We walked from the east end almost to the west end parking lot and back.  There were a few flowers in bloom, especially buttercups, with balsamroot and fern-leaf desert parsley coming on.  In a week or so it should be pretty nice.  There were quite a few other people in the canyon today.  Given the way the weather turned out, I was a little sorry we hadn't gone farther afield, but it was still a good walk.