• Home
    • hiking
    • Travel
  • life
    • About
    • Hike Recaps
  • Photos
  • About Me
Menu

tiny pines

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number

Your Custom Text Here

tiny pines

  • Home
  • adventures
    • hiking
    • Travel
  • life
  • Alpine Trails Book Club
    • About
    • Hike Recaps
  • Photos
  • About Me

Life: Week 40

November 6, 2020 Laura Norsen
processed_2020-10-20-100142799.jpg

After stockpiling delicious seasonal homegrown and foraged foods over the past weeks, this weekend was spent cooking and baking. For dinner one weeknight, I made the incredibly comforting cheddar rice from this cookbook using the last of the paste tomatoes from my garden. Another night, we had a meaty skillet pizza, using up the last of a large batch of pizza dough I’d stashed in the freezer. After watching the latest episode of The Great British Bake Off Friday, Saturday was all about baking. There's nothing quite as good as fresh baked bread, still warm from the oven, and the white bread with poolish from Flour Water Salt Yeast has become my new favorite. It’s basically baguette in a loaf form, and I've finally baked it enough that it’s begun to feel easy and familiar, something I can throw together on a lazy weekend with what feels like little effort. Between steps in the bread making process, I also made a tart, using upsome of the pounds of alpine blueberries we’ve harvested over the past weeks. It’s mostly improvised, so sadly I have no recipe to share, but then I think these berries are delicious in any form, so really no recipe is needed!

Read more
In life, 2020 Tags fall, food, baking
2 Comments

Life: Week 48

December 6, 2016 Laura Norsen
upload.jpg

It gets dark so early these days. Somehow work has managed to stay busy, even though we should be well into our holiday season lull, so I've mostly been cooped up inside, especially during daylight hours. To compensate for all the darkness, I've been burning lots of candles, and even finally got around to using the pretty glass oil lamps we inherited from Andy's grandparents. I had my annual holiday craft party on Sunday, where I get together with friends to watch Christmas movies and work on our various craft projects. That meant spending most of Saturday baking and cleaning in preparation. I baked cookies, the Winning Hearts and Minds cake, and my favorite - pulla. Pulla is a Finnish cardamom bread that my family has had every year at Christmas for as long as I can remember.  Instead of cookies for Santa, my sister and I would leave a plate of pulla. Last year, I didn't have the time to make pulla at all, so I'm enjoying it even more this year! I might even have time to make another batch before Christmas!

Read more
In life, 2016, week 48 Tags winter, food, baking, holidays
Comment

Life: Week 19

May 16, 2016 Laura Norsen

One of the new additions to my May calendar compared to previous years was the first birthday or a certain adorable niece of mine. Saturday was her birthday party, to which I contributed a delicious funfetti cake made using this recipe. I don't think it's possible to go wrong with funfetti, but this one definitely didn't disappoint! While it's hard to tell from the photos I have of the week, most of it was hot and sunny, continuing to feel decidedly un-springlike. Still, I managed to make it out for a few runs to break in my new running shoes! I'll have to hope for some good wet weather soon so I can start building up a good solid layer of trail mud on my new shoes.

Sunday, we finally had time for a hike, and we were going - rain be damned! Luckily, while it was overcast all day and rained the entire drive to and from the trailhead, it never rained on the trail. While there were absolutely no views there were plenty of wildflowers blooming, and I certainly got my fix of cloud-obscured ridgelines!

Read more
In life, 2016, week 19 Tags teanaway, spring, baking, hiking
Comment

About me

51174846_588023631765_48341394514771968_n.jpg

Hi there! I'm Laura, and I'm an alpine addict. When I'm not out on the trail, I'm most likely at home snuggled up with my cat and a good book.



latest instagram

Even the avalanche lilies can't help staring at lovely Lady Tahoma!
Think cold thoughts... 🌨️🌬️❄️ 108° outside and 91° inside my house has me dreaming of foggy alpine lakes, icy glacial waterfalls, and snowy lowland  paths. #melting #pnw #summer #sheexplores #washington #vscocam
Perks of volunteering with @washingtontrails - sometimes you get a view like this just above where you parked your car. Plus there are candy breaks! #nationaltrailsday
Weeding isn't so bad with such good company! Moments later, this little guy paused to rest on my hand. #inmygarden #pnw #pnwlife
Quintessential Puget Sound view 😍
This place is always lovely, but this time of year is when it truly shines. I feel like I say this about every season, but spring is my favorite!
I accidentally wrote a poem on today's #alpinetrailsbookclub hike. Trees, moss stumps, ferns, rocks, muck, and rain, rain, rain.

It was a soggy one, but lovely nonetheless.
Trees festooned in green, even in the dead of winter. 💚
The spooky vibe of the trails around the summit of Squak Mountain speaks to the dark & spooky part of my soul. 🖤 Also, this short (cold, rainy, super hygge) hike with a wonderful friend was exactly what I needed to kick myself out of my 2020 glo
I wonder - are they called licorice ferns because they taste of licorice? Important questions.

latest hikes

Featured
Iron Goat - Wellington Ghost Town
Oct 25, 2021
Iron Goat - Wellington Ghost Town
Oct 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
Lime Kiln State Park
Jul 1, 2019
Lime Kiln State Park
Jul 1, 2019
Jul 1, 2019
Lime Kiln
Jun 16, 2019
Lime Kiln
Jun 16, 2019
Jun 16, 2019

Archive

Select Month
  • October 2021 1
  • December 2020 1
  • November 2020 4
  • October 2020 3
  • September 2020 4
  • August 2020 3
  • July 2020 2
  • July 2019 3
  • June 2019 5
  • May 2019 5
  • April 2019 5
  • March 2019 4
  • February 2019 4
  • January 2019 5
  • December 2018 3
  • November 2018 4
  • October 2018 5
  • September 2018 5
  • August 2018 6
  • July 2018 7
  • June 2018 4
  • May 2018 6
  • April 2018 5
  • March 2018 4
  • February 2018 5
  • January 2018 5
  • December 2017 5
  • November 2017 5
  • October 2017 6
  • September 2017 5
  • August 2017 4
  • July 2017 5
  • June 2017 6
  • May 2017 6
  • April 2017 5
  • March 2017 6
  • February 2017 4
  • January 2017 8
  • December 2016 4
  • November 2016 6
  • October 2016 6
  • September 2016 5
  • August 2016 6
  • July 2016 5
  • June 2016 6
  • May 2016 7
  • April 2016 4
  • March 2016 7
  • February 2016 6
  • January 2016 7
  • December 2015 5
  • November 2015 5
  • October 2015 7
  • September 2015 3
  • August 2015 3
  • July 2015 2
  • June 2015 6

blogs i read
 

alpine lily
pacific northwest seasons
trail snail
a day without rain
happiest outdoors
every two pines
smitten kitchen
my name is yeh
posie gets cozy
hei astrid
deep red blues

590 Tahoe Keys Blvd, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150