Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Blood Moon Eclipse/Hobbit Visit....Post Views....20,246



 Sunday night treated us to a beautiful celestial show.  It was the lunar eclipse of a "super moon".  

At first I had a difficult time finding the super moon.  I started looking for it about 
7:10 PM PDT.  I kept looking where I generally see the moon later on in the evening...no moon.
Checked occasionally through the hour.  Finally located it "across the street".   To the east?  
         With all the lights of the neighborhood the moon was hard to see and photograph.  So.....it was time to scurry down the street in between to houses where the lights weren't showing. Was a bit concerned someone would call their little pooch on me or skip a rock...or I might walk into a spider web. 

    Took 101 pictures...kind of like the dalmatians.. (later, 12 proved to be usable). 

       

  








Eclipse passing....



















Super Moon Splendor......




Don't know if it was the super moon, but.....

A hobbit showed up for tea on Monday morning.....












Must have been the super moon.....

Or maybe Gram G talked about a hobbit party and forgot who she told and when to come.....we had a fun cup of tea....
Official hobbit party still to come....


     Today is the last day of September.  Time to look ahead into autumn and all the coming holidays.  I have had a good summer with lots of fun adventures.  

I did grow some green beans after all....
Don't know if I should dry them for planting next summer or sow them now to grow a magic bean stalk.....
Also grew 3 squash...freshest cooked squash for me.... one hour from picking to eating.... 



Are we ready for THIS????







Enjoy this first.....
Happy Harvest......



On to another adventure.....check back in a few days to see what!

This has been a good 4 super moon days in the life of Grandma G. 

"The day is yours [Lord], and yours also the night; you established the sun and the moon.  It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth: you made both summer and winter." (Psalms 74: 16 & 17)

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Tilikum Crossing Bridge....Post Views...20,198

   Portland has a new bridge......

   Tilikum Crossing....

   No cars can cross this bridge...

   It is for the Max, buses, trolleys, bicycles, and people...
   
  We Red Hat people crossed it on Thursday,
   


Our adventure started out at 10 on a beautiful morning, leaving the park and driving to the Max station in Oregon.

 













Validating our tickets


                                                                                                                      Donna, Nola, Nancy, Jo

Grandma G, Carol, Caroline, Julienne













Portland water fountain and bridges

Horse patrol....
horsing around on the sidewalk...
























Here comes the new Orange line to  Tilikum Crossing.... 


   On my way to Milwaukie.....Oh, wait, that should next week to Milwaukee.                                                                                                                                                             
Oregon Ducks car....



          Portland Opera House/Classical Radio 







Tilikum Crossing Bridge...

Bridge of the People....

Name selected from 9,500 entries

Runs 1,720 feet east and west across the Willamette River, connecting downtown Portland and its cultural area 


(There is a billboard near Milwaukie that advertises changing the name to Jean-Luc Picard.  At least one citizen is a Trekkie.) 






"Tilikum" is Chinook for "people"


We rode across it on the Max



Strolled back across.....


















                             Jo misbehavin.....

Ain't misbehavin....












Dredging the Willamette River

                                                                                                                  Setting up home camping 

Four of Portland's 12 bridges across the Willamette...   





Heading  back to downtown Portland.....
The "orange Line" opened 
Sept. 12, 2015







To Pioneer Place Mall for lunch at the food court.....



 A seal encounter in downtown Portland

Party balloons, anyone??


'Tis the season...?















And then it is time to go home on a wonderful autumn afternoon





They don't come that big in Wisconsin.....







This has been a good Tilikum Crossing day in the life of Grandma G.

"The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground."  (Joshua 4: 17)