Dates:May 31 – June 2, 2019 Shortly after breakfast on Friday morning we headed west then north on US Highway 101 to Port Angeles where we would park and walk aboard the Black Ball Ferry to Victoria. Everyone who has traveled this way will say “Did you see Lake Crescent?!”. It is breathtakingly beautiful. A …
March 10-12, 2018 Be prepared – there are a LOT of pictures in this post. We got lucky with the weather and I couldn’t stop clicking the shutter. We went up to Port Townsend, Washington with our neighbors/friends for a long weekend. We had tickets for the annual She Tells Sea Tales story telling event …
August 9, 2015 Scott Kelby (Lightroom and general photography instructor) says if you want to take beautiful pictures you have to go out and stand in front of beautiful things. The blogging corollary to that is: if you want to blog about interesting things you have to go out and participate in interesting things. I’ve …
My nephew Kevin graduated months ago but with one thing and another we’ve had a hard time getting people together. Kevin’s brother Paul is married to Emmy, a fantastic woman from Sweden; her parents have been visiting for the past month and we just couldn’t let them go back home without meeting them. So we …
The University of Oregon Ducks were ranked 2nd in the nation at the end of the regular season and earned a birth in the Rose Bowl on New Years day. I cooked some red beans and rice and had a few friends over at the last minute. You can read here about the good time we had …
As many of you doubtless know we were blessed with our first grandson, Jurgen, last June. We took a road trip out out to North Riverside (Chicago suburb) to meet him. We then brought our co-mother-in-law Jeanette (who lives in South Africa) back to Portland with us via the Grand Canyon. You can read through my …
This posting is dedicated to my friend, Tom, who has a blog called Boise Style; he goes around the “city of trees” and captures the latest in style. Well, do I have some style for you! Carla and I wanted to stretch our legs somewhere other than the neighborhood today so we went up to …
April 13, 2014 The past couple of Aprils we’ve headed out the Columbia Gorge to Mosier to have lunch at the Mosier Community Dinner which supports the local volunteer fire department. Mosier is a small town and this dinner at the local Grange hall has a small town feel. The locals make various salads and …
Jon down the street has 4 duck nest boxes; with eggs in one of them! His comment: With all the avian activity in our backyards this week, curiosity finally got the better of me. So I brought out the ladder after work tonight, and took a look inside four of the nest boxes in my …
My good friend and neighbor Jay is a naturalist (or something; he likes fish and wildlife). He partakes in the Audubon Christmas bird count every year. His neighbor (wait, isn’t that me? no the other neighbor – Jon) is another bird guy. Anyway, Jon gave Jay a duck box to attract a pair of ducks who might want …