The Summer of our Winter-more Oregon -snow & rain

So do you think the double deck pumps are for the double deck buses?????
This is a living stump as shown by the sign below.

Wild irises found on a walk with my cousin.
This flower tree is all white and looks like snow when the whole tree is in bloom.

A view down the creek from the dam on my cousins land.
This is a dam on my cousins land in Oregon-when the kids were little they would load rocks down stream to make a swimming area.
A mountain we saw on one of our drives.
Crater Lake has more snow this year than when we were here in June of 2007.
across the valley and the Rogue in Oregon
some of the falls on the Rogue River
a swinging bridge across the river-yeah good luck with crossing that one
Bil headed for Crater Lake- yes we are in snow again. It truly is the summer of our winter.
a nice walking path on the Rogue river
a bridge to nowhere

We took a Jet boat ride down the Rogue River. The captain took it up to 55 MPH.
As you can see in these photos we still had rainy, cloudy days. Fairly typical since leaving CA in early May. Hopefully it will get better. These photos are all from the boat ride.



It was a very windy ride as you can see by my hair---no it is not a comb over. The captain did several 360's and sprayed everyone with water as well. Great fun.



This canyon was used in a couple of movies-Rooster Cogburn with John Wayne, a Matt Dillon jumped in to escape from some bad guys in an episode of Gunsmoke. They jumped from the top of the rocks into the river.
Some wild life seen along the way. This is an Osprey rookery.
A parent Osprey looking for food below. They build their nests over water sources.
This eagle sat for us to get some photos-or perhaps he too was waiting for some food below.
This deer took notice of the boat and then kept on with her foraging. In a side shot we could see she was heavy with a baby soon to be born according to the captain.
There were lots of Blue Herons along the route and of course more Canadian geese than any other type bird.

Redding and the Lassen Park area

A plaque to one of the old towns we discovered along the way to Lassen.
The old station post office was said to be the smallest post office in the states -founded in the early 1900's and was used until 1947 when a new one was opened down the road.
a look across Manzanita lake
Mount Lassen and how we would have liked t have seen it-however we had rain and clouds so we had to settle for their picture of it.
This was our view of Hat mountain not nearly as high as Lassen, but still a high mountain of snow.

A look at Lassen Park as we head up to see the Peak.
We found a considerable amount of snow even though it was in the 50's.
Manzanita lake and a couple of log looking figures.
We saw this sing on the way to Redding-Who do you suppose they are talking about????
We found a casitas for the girls when they are ready to travel with us.

Trip to Nevada & Donner's pass & surrounding areas

The day and drive started out this blue both days we made drives.
They both ended up part way through looking like this. Sure glad we do not have to live in this mess. This was on the 80 through the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The storm looming in the distance.
This is for Jackie as she loves clouds. But you can see we had dry roads here.
The sun seen through the clouds.

A look across the area and an old barn that may not be around much longer.
looks like the storm is coming in-we were in and out of it all day.
As you can see there is still a lot of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
an area that winter is slowly loosing its grip-creating neat water falls.

A nice field of flowers with and added "attraction'.
This is from our dash. As you can see the weather was all over the place.

The dark line is really a railroad snow shed- see the sign below.


Jerry's house and his outhouse is below, nicely decorated.

We saw these gallows in one of the towns we investigated on our drive. They were only used once and hanging was outlawed in CA.
Beautiful flowers are everywhere.

One lane bridge in this small town on our journey- no coach to cross this one.
Ice or sleet on the window shows the type of weather we were in and out of May 21st.
The Donner party sign and monument below the sign.
Bil wanted to go to Donner Pass--for lunch-- he said something about "finger-food"; I said over my dead body. his response, "ok". he later thought a 'rump roast" might be tasty as well. But seriously there is a lot of history here and we spend the day getting there and enjoying the museum/park and trip.
Donner Lake and the area below the ski areas.
The girl in this was one of the people who lived through the fateful time.