August Adventures!

To the Oregon Coast!!

Passing through the I-5 lift bridge across the Columbia River...

Crossing the double-deck Fremont Bridge on the Willamette River...

Tunneling through Goose Hollow leaving Portland... 

Traversing  the country side...

Into the mountains...

Observing wispy clouds and cars, cars, cars at Oceanside!

On to the SEA!!

Kahana and Saul took me on a day trip to the Pacific Coast!

Visiting the Octopus Tree...

And Cape Meares lighthouse...

Climbing down the rocks to get to the beach!

 Pacific Coastal Highway 101 in Tillamook, OR

A bit of nostalgia...

I rode The Champion a few times in my growing up!!

Just put in your quarter!

And ate at Frisch's Big Boy in Indianapolis!

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Late summer floral magic!

Hibiscus...tea, anyone?

Chives...back in the old country of northern Wisconsin we called them "Schnittling", term from southern Germany 

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Checked out the annual quilt show in our park

Multnomah Falls...must have been a challenge to design and stitch!

I'd purchase this one!

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Summer ain't complete without...

Fresh peach cobbler!  Ate it all my own self!

When's the last time your egg had twin yolks??

Harvesting from my strawberry patch!

So fun and colorful on my new deck for the summer!

Start of partial lunar eclipse!

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REFLECTIONS  

I went out walking around the park one Saturday morning, taking the route in the opposite direction from my usual.  I noticed things I hadn't in the past 14 years!  A different view and a new perspective.   It was like doing something backwards or rewinding the clock. Refreshing! I was in the same place as the past 14 years, but it was new! Perhaps one needs to focus like that on every day things and get an unfamiliar, fresh perspective.

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This has been a good 4 GeoGram weeks in the life of Gram G!

"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters." 

(Psalm 24:1-2)