Red Lillies

Some front yard blooms

Banco in Situ

Gonna be hot today.

Morning Deer

 I caught this one sampling the new forsythia.

More Lost Creek Lake

We spent another paddling excursion at the south side of Lost Creek Lake. My favorite place so far. Clear green water.  Debbie and Steve came by motor boat.

Pool Party

We had some of the gang over this last weekend to celebrate Robin's birthday.

Banco in Situ

 

Squirrel Chasing

Hitchcock's Masterpiece

One of the best scary movies turn 60 today.  Read more here

Lost Creek Lake

Last week's kayaking adventure took us north of Medford to Lost Creek Lake. Robin joined along but without a boat, she propped herself up in my bow. And the hilarity began.

Error

Can you imagine who'd be howling if this was 5 years ago?

And Then He Went to Church

Banco in Situ

Galesville Reservoir

Motoring up to Azalea and then about 8 miles on Upper Cow Creek Rd leads you to Chief Miwaleta park on the Galesville Reservoir.  Much, much larger than Lake Selmac.  We saw a bald eagle hunting. And Steve and Debbie joined in a more leisurely motorized vehicle.
Afterwards it was back on the freeway to Roseburg and the Abacela winery.  A few glasses of excellent vino and a late lunch.  A long but fun day.

Illinois River

Outside Selma is a road that winds along the Illinois River's fire scared valley. Karen took Barb and I on a trip to her favorite swimming hole.  The water was high as evidenced by a submerged campfire. Clear green water. The wild flowers were out. Fantastic find.

The Petty President

Drink Wine!

The Oregon Inside campaign is here

Red Poppies

While SoCal is enjoying a super bloom of poppies, we have been getting some red ones amongst the orange.

Lake Selmac

Barbara, Bruce and I went for our first kayak excursion today to Lake Selmac. Barb and I are trying out the new inflatable kayaks and they turned out to be very good. We saw osprey and a great blue heron fishing.....along with a few humans. Gorgeous day before it gets hot tomorrow.

Pozo Blue

I've not been able to grow our favorite Clevelandii sage here, the Winifred Gilman variety. I found another kind called Pozo Blue or Grey Musk that's supposedly hearty in our chilly winters. Hoping these guys survive and we can start cooking with it soon.

New Kayak

Unpacked and inflated the new kayak.  Gave it a spin in the pool.  Looking for larger lakes soon.