To Market To Market
The Saturday market in Salem (Oregon) is always wonderful…it’s dog city with lots of fruits, vegetables, breads, plants and food booths. I especially love this time of year when all […]
State Fair = End of Summer
We love the Oregon State Fair and go every year, but when it rolls around we know that means the end of summer. It’s starting to get darker earlier (albeit […]
4,930 Miles One Way
4,930 miles (one way!) is a long way to fly to see one’s closest friend – and that’s not counting the long train ride – but that’s what my husband and […]
The bees are buzzing!
Each July, lavender farms across Oregon participate for one weekend in a Lavender Festival. This year I visited Barn Owl Nursery just up the road in Wilsonville. The fields there […]
Port and Cork
The afternoon of our second day in Porto – the spectacular capital of northern Portugal – the group left for a wine country tour of the Douro Valley. Bill and I […]
Up the coast
A walled fortress city, the oldest university in Portugal and Fado…what a wonderful two days. After we left Lisbon, we headed north to the beach town of Figueira da Foz. There […]
They love sardines!
My husband and I just returned from a trip to Portugal (Oh…and a side trip to see wonderful friends in England). We usually don’t “do tours” but this time we […]
Who You Gonna Call?
Each year McMinnville, Oregon hosts the UFO Festival. Speakers, workshops, people with tinfoil hats and so many other “outfits”. This is only the second time we’ve attended and I forgot […]
Slip Sliding Around
Talk about tiptoeing through the tulips! I visited the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival grounds last week between rain squalls. But the fields were so slippery from all the rain we […]
Still Waiting
The magnolia and cherry trees may have popped some buds, but with the recent gray skies, breezes and constant rain, spring in Oregon doesn’t want to arrive. This kind of weather […]
