Boing! Boing! More Shop Hopping!

Chris was up for a drive down to the beach, via the Quilt Shop Hop Way, so we loaded the car with water, warmer clothes and hopped on down to Albany.
Where we waited for the shop to open.
Then we got our “passport” stamped, picked up our free quilt block design and material, and a few [...]

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Back to Oregon via the Puget Island Ferry

I just love riding on ferries!
So much to see, all the way around, and from beginning to end.  Plus it was a good way to cross back over to Oregon without driving another couple of hundred miles on the road.

This is the Puget Island Shoreline, Washington side, as the ferry pulls away from the [...]

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Flora & Fauna of the Lighthouse

Any naturalists out there?  I’m not sure what this is, they remind me of bleeding hearts though.
Edited: Thanks to my friend, Missamite over on Ravelry, this is called “Salal”.

This is Indian Paintbrush, just starting to bloom, they’ll be all over the hillock in another week or so.

Masses of this stuff, Foxglove, commonly known for the [...]

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North Head Lighthouse

Just as Chris was coming around the corner, “snap”.   He actually appears dwarfed by the column of the Lighthouse.
I ran around taking pictures like a mad-women.  The people on the trail behind me kindly paused while I snapped some shots looking down the trail we took to get there.

Its a very lovely spot.  Wild.

Windswept.

Verdant.

And [...]

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Dismal Rest Area: The Prettiest Rest Area Ever!

This is the view of the Astoria Bridge from the rest area.

I am not exaggerating!  Look at this view!

and so you know this isn’t just some park, here are the rest rooms.
Too bad we already ate the sammies!

That’s ok, Chris will polish off the cookies.

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Row of KIP’ers

In which we all gather together in public and KNIT!
So I went to this park that was nearly impossible to park at, because it was surrounded with one way streets.  And I already forgot the name of it.  However, it was a nice, little courtyard park with a building attached that contained:  A very small [...]

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On Travel

You don’t have to go far to travel. In fact, my favorite trips are from the sofa. Armchair Theater or Armchair Traveler it is sometimes called.
Where you sit and either read a book or watch a TV show about someone else who took a trip to somewhere else.
And you sort of go along [...]

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Rock Formations

The landscape around here is so cool, imagine how it would look on a sunny day with blue skies.
If you can’t imagine then come back in the summertime, after we’ve camped out here, and I’ll show you.

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More Lake Billy Chinook

There’s Chris & Scooter off in the distance,  waiting for me in the Lil Red Car, Again!

This time down by the bridge, which I also took a gazillion pix of.

I get all fascinated by angles with depth of field and

even looking at the picture looking up gets ya little dizzy!

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Lake Billy Chinook

Finally!  The drive down into the canyon seems to take forever.
The day was so dark and gray…this pix looks like a paper cut-out instead of tall rock canyon walls with some scrub brush on it.
You feel like you’re there when you arrive at this wonderful man-made object.

Its a little incongrous amoungst all that glorious [...]

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