It was almost 60 degrees at 9pm last night, and the wind felt even warmer than that!
It was amazing.
There were even bees out in some of these beautiful flowers:

Probably not, but it sure felt like it today!
The air felt mild and smelled of springtime, and there were little flowers growing all around!
One block in particular had an overwhelming smell of flowers; it was wonderful!

Green Lake is a great place for many reasons, but the sunsets given over the water are frequently just amazing!

We traditionally go on a Christmas day hike by ourselves, but for the first time, we had our dog along with us (in the past, we have had a dog who was kicked out of the house for Christmas walk with us for the day)

Unbridled Optimism Dog:

It was a really gorgeous day for hiking, no snow, but beautiful!

And cold:

We’ve had really unusually cold weather lately, and much of Green Lake was frozen (there’s a warm and a cold side of it, and the cold side was frozen enough for us to tempt fate by walking on it, but the warm side was completely unfrozen)

There is a bird sanctuary island in the lake and an eagle was resting in one of the trees there, but the beauty of the ice & the sunset (and the fact that the eagle was rather small and far away) make for a more impressive picture.