June 2013
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| molly and derek move to portland touring the columbia river gorge |
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| my great-niece |
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| erik's pulled pork sandwich (more interesting than the gorge itself) one of the best he's ever had, he said and purchased at the little springdale country store |
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| waterfall tour - shepherd's dell |
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| wahkeena falls |
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| I never tire of showing folks this special group of waterfalls it reminds me of why I love it here |
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| inside-outs |
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| bridal veil falls |
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| photo op…lower left |
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| the columbia river |
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| multnomah falls garden time
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| this is where my shed used to be |
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| a little wabi sabi |
july
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| margie's hood-to-coast a trip to mt. hood to scatter margie's ashes |
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| this blue moth landed where we placed some of the ashes it stayed there for a very long time |
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| we took margie to the beach, too she loved it there |
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| nehalem bay |
back home
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| I love it when they bale |
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| from the garden, summer squash and herbs |
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| silly carrots |
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| big blueberries |
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| an acre of them from a semi-abandoned patch belonging to an elderly lady who lets us pick there |
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| up the mt. hood fruit loop searching for cherries we found some for 95¢/lb…score! |
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| we enjoyed some cherry-bacon-gorgonzola pizza at this nice place for annie's birthday |
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| sad news…rosie kitty's forever resting place see the cross? she suffered from kidney failure at 16 yrs I'm not the only one who misses her |
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| how I love the flowers of summer |
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morning coffeeaugust |
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| my little flower garden has grown since the pictures above - yay! |
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| la courgette in the flower garden |
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| and this from pinterest a broken umbrella stand works well for pole support too bad I didn't see it before the peas, which are now done here |
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| my garden's off to a slow start this year with rain all through June warm weather tomatoes and cukes are taking longer to ripen |
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| I refreshed my sunflower table that margie and john made |
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| happy summer! |
