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Dent After Dinner?

After reading the green bumper sticker, I certainly hope it was a really great dinner! #dent #accident #bumpersticker #dinner

Unusual and amazing artwork grace the hallways and a “secret passage” in McMenamin’s Grand Lodge in Forest Grove, Oregon. It serves fine foods at its restaurant, and also has lodging, concerts, and a movie theatre. After a great meal, a meander through the hallways, up and down stairs, and through unexpected passages reveals even moreContinue reading “Pipe Dreams”

Of Mountains, Wings, and Dreams

Above: Piper Clipper and I on Tieton airstrip at Rimrock Lake in the Washington Cascades. Below: Tieton airstrip and Rimrock Lake seen from above thirty years later. What rag-winged, tail-dragger pilot hasn’t dreamed of mountain flying and landing on remote grass airstrips. There’s a bit of bush pilot in most of us, and it didn’tContinue reading “Of Mountains, Wings, and Dreams”

Nevertheless

It may officially be called a “lesser goldfinch” but it seemed really great to us when we spotted it during a recent walk. It is the first time we had seen one of these, and it took more than a little searching to identify it. Even though called “lesser,” it was a grand sight toContinue reading “Nevertheless”

Helens’ Ring

The flight from Seattle to Portland was described as “a quick up and down” with no drink or snack service, and they implied that there would be little to see or do between takeoff and landing. However, the rimed remnants of Mount St. Helens rising above the clouds was a rare sight like I hadContinue reading “Helens’ Ring”

Dawn of Departure

Rising with the Sunby Howard Eskildsen The middle of the night The Sun hugs the horizonSeems a strange time to arise As we leave the runway behindTo drive to the place And it seems hard to imagineWhere more than time flies That there was ever a timeFrom security to concourse When flight was but aContinue reading “Dawn of Departure”

Bee Bumble

While wandering the local amusement park we came across this visitor who did not have to drive for hours, paid no admission or parking fees, and waited in no lines. Unlike us, I’m sure it was quite secure in its own sense of “beelonging.” #disney #disneyworld #bumbling #bumblebee #belonging

Enforcement

When they tell visitors to remain seated during the ride, they mean it! #disney #piratesofthecaribbean #cannon

Cookie Central

If the world were ever to suffer a cookie crisis, this would be the place to head. Blooming by the dozens, these peanut blossoms are just the solution! #cookes #peanutblossoms

Poo-932 How Do You Doo?

I could not help wondering how this plate came to be. Was it simply random letter assignment at the license plate factory, or is there a dark, possibly smelly, secret to it. Some preposterous theories began to grow deep inside my little brain but I quickly put them aside, thinking that they could be asContinue reading “Poo-932 How Do You Doo?”