We have been seeing lots of trillium plants, but so far we had only seen two blooms. So a visit to Trillium Lake was in order. I knew absolutely nothing about this lake, but the name sounded good. I figured that with a name like that, there just had to be a lot of trilliums in the area. But the question is would they be blooming? Good news. There were lots blooming along the sides of the access road. Then we saw a lot of them on the level, easy stroll around the lake.

This was the first sunny, "nice" day around here, so lots of people were out enjoying the great outdoors. It's not exactly a wilderness experience, but I sure have no complaints. Well I do have a minor one. When we got back to the car there was a fee envelope under the windshield wiper with a note that they don't accept our America The Beautiful inter-agency pass. They do honor the Northwest Forest Pass, and my pass is equivalent to that. So I paid the fee, and we stopped by the ranger station on our way back to town just to get clarification. The ranger told us that our pass is valid and that if that happens in the future we should just ignore the note and not pay. She said that they're not going to do anything if someone doesn't pay. And here I had visions of the Forest Service SWAT team driving down to San Diego and laying siege to my home.

We got back in town early because we didn't want to be late for dinner with Greg and Cheryl. We had to postpone yesterday's plans because we knew that we were going to be moving slow at Ramona Falls. Dinner was good and the company was exceptional. And the best was yet to come. Greg performed a ragtime concert at Twin Paradox. The music was wonderful. I wish that we lived closer so that we could get together with them much more often.