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 […]
The Gifts of Color
I’ve always loved color. Try as I might, it’s hard for me to see potential photographic images in black and white. I remember in the 1980’s when that book came […]
Feeling lost
As a child I had the fun of using a Brownie type film camera with those square flash bulbs that popped and always had a bit of a burnt smell […]
