My sister Kay sent me my first birthday present of the year which I got in the mail today and went ahead and opened. I LOVE it! I will call him Cub, of course.
This present is made all the better because of my sister’s love of trolls, going way back, and all the stories that go along with them.
Thank you Kay! He’s just what I needed!
The Color of Fall
Originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl
The leaves are changing, the weather has changed, and soon the time will follow. Yes ladies and gents… autumn has arrived.
The Tower, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
After our tubing adventure last Saturday we all went to Edgefield. The McMenamins establishment that’s out in Troutdale. I’ve never seen a group of hungrier women. We were all so famished we could have eaten almost anything. Fortunately, even though they were packed and we had to wait a while to get a table, once we got seated our service was pretty darn good. The beer and the food started flowing almost immediately and we were in heaven.
Splash of Orange, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
I did what I do and ran around taking pictures of our yard a couple of nights ago. It was almost too late in the day, light fading and all, but some of them actually turned out OK. Love these flowers. Not even sure what they are, but we have a little patch of them and they are lovely.
Splash of Orange, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
I also took this one as we walked back to the truck from the fair. Loved the bright orange in this. Nature is fantastic.
S’more Anyone?, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Nothing better than ending the evening hanging with compadres by doing a little s’more making over an open flame. Yes…..
Summer Lilies, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Butterfly, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
One of the butterflies in the butterfly house near the Ashton Memorial.
Daffodil, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
These beauties are everywhere right now. Amazing.
A Stand of Daffodils, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Wow… what can you say. Nature does color better than any human can. Just breathtaking right now out there. Spring is wonderful.
2, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
I wonder what’s behind door number 2? Monte Hall… do you know? What if, some day, we just wandered up to it and knocked. Who do you suppose would answer? Strange scientists doing secret experiments? A rock band renting the space getting ready for it’s next international tour? A guy making donuts? Elvis?
Hearth, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
This stove was a work horse during our power outage. We were so thankful we had it, and that we had wood to burn. We were very warm and cozy Christmas Day. Not only that, it worked great as a cook surface. Nothing like hot dogs cooked on top of a wood stove to stave off Christmas hunger.
Fall, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
The leaves are almost done changing and they’ve mostly come down. I took this shot of our favorite tree in our yard. This thing is absolutely gorgeous during the change. Spectacular.
Gerbera, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
These are blooming at the house right now. Lovely.
Harvest Moon, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
There was a big beautiful harvest moon the other night.
Orange, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
The theme for this week’s hunt is colorful. I was perusing some of the flower pictures I’ve taken and came across this one, a particular favorite of mine. I love the bright orange and green in this. I like it so much in fact that I just made it my header photo. And, a little confession, I posted this already… as my July 25 photo on my photoblog, image – ination.
If you’d like to join in the all the photo hunt fun, check out tnchick for all the details.
Orange Fire, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Friday had us hiking around enjoying some of the beautiful wild flowers, trees, and scenery in the area.
Bald Eagles, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Sunset our second night at Davis Lake was beautiful and made even more so by the two Bald Eagles sitting watching over the area.
Sparks, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
I put the camera on a tripod and shot a few. In this one you can see spark trails coming up out of the fire. Mary, to the right, is blurry because she was moving. I actually asked them all to sit still and took one after this shot. It turned out really well. Fantastic actually. In this one, as well as in the other, you can actually see some stars up in the sky. Very cool.
Ready for Roasting, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
This baby was ready for roasting…. and we did. The best comment of the evening… Mary, who hasn’t been able to roast a marshmallow in a year (she lives in England where the marshmallows are apparently sub par), saying to her first nicely roasted specimen, “come to me my beauty”. It was a good moment.
Poppies, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
We strolled along the harbor walk and there were some beautiful poppies. I had to take a photo.
Flame Broiled, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
We went to a barbecue on Saturday at my nephew’s place. He’s a great cook, though the barbecue wasn’t cooperating with him. Setting on low and it still kept flaming out. Ah well, the chicken was spectacular. As was everything else he made. Thanks Sean. Yum! And a very happy birthday to Hayden. You look great, even though you are older than I am. Two years older, but who’s counting.
Weston was a bit traumatized by his interaction with the other dogs. He’s good one on one, but when there’s a crowd I think he gets a bit overwhelmed. He spent a lot of time in our laps, and the lap of anyone else who would let him up. He liked watching the other dogs, he just wasn’t sure he wanted to play with them all. Later he had a chance to be one on one and he had a splendid time chasing, etc. I think we need to socialize him a tad more. Looks like a visit to the dog park is in his future, though I think we’ll take him to the small/timid dog area to start. Work him up to the big dog area. Yeah, he’d probably prefer it that way….
Brrrr, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
Signs of Spring, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
I took this one at the house yesterday as well. It’s a true sign of spring. The daffodils are blooming. For those of you who look you probably already spied this photo over on my other blog, image – ination. I used it as my photo of the day yesterday and love it so much I’m also posting it here.
Originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl
The sign said, “tree ripened oranges”. I wonder, how else would they ripen. FrankenOrange? Scary.
We drove, and drove, and uh… drove some more over the rivers (they were all dried up), through the woods (no leaves, except for the orange and olive trees), to Dan and Linda’s house we came.
First… there’s not much in Eastern California except for windmills, which were actually very cool, oranges, grape vines, and lots of blown trash. We would’ve made pretty good time today other than the traffic we ran into first on HWY 58 and then on I-15 into Vegas. It seemed as though everyone and their dogs were hitting sin city for the holiday.
There were several points of interest along the way, most of which we didn’t find interesting enough to stop and see. The most hilarious of which was the tallest mini market in the world. We don’t actually know if it was, as advertised, the tallest mini market or even if it was a mini market, as we couldn’t see it from the road and as I said, we didn’t stop. We did see an airplane graveyard in the town of Mojave, though we didn’t get close enough to take any pictures. The only pictures we took in Mojave were at a gas station and of some windmills and a hillside nearby.
We reached the outskirts of Vegas from the East, coming to a huge casino that had point in the title. I can’t remember what it was. The only thing I remember about the place was the astro turf lawn around the edge of the parking lot. I remember this because Weston had to go and that was the closest place to pull off the freeway. We stopped thinking we’d find grass for the little guy and only found astro turf. He was able to pee on a tree, which was real, but couldn’t bring himself to do anything else.
Now here we sit at Dan and Linda’s place. They are all in bed after hanging out with us over a nice barbecued steak dinner. Nice. It’ll be good to hang out for a few days with them and to be in one place for awhile. Weston can make friends with Sadie, the dog of the house, and maybe get used to a place enough that he doesn’t feel the need to bark protectively at every little sound he hears in the middle of the night. His mom’s would really like that as well.
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