Sunday Dinner -- Jan 16, 2011

Rainy weekend here in Gresham, a serious soaking, darn near flooding, continual rain. Lucky for us, we don't live near a flood plain. Was a good day to cook up a pot of stew for the dogs, was so good; and the dogs shared with us -- hahahaha. Yeah, yeah, yeah -- fall stew in the winter; sue me!



















Yep, full barking mode...

Nick Eaton Trail to Ridge Cutoff -- Dec 12, 2010

A balmy December day for a hike in the Columbia River gorge. Left the trailhead around 10 am with temperatures right around 60 F and gathering clouds. Rains started up around noon and were falling in earnest by 1 pm. Echo and I got our rain jackets on and ended up having a great day out in the woods.

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma, ttp://www.yo-yoma.com/, comes to Stumptown to play with the Oregon Symphony. The lineup:

• The Performers: The Oregon Symphony, with Music Director Carlos Kalmar on the podium, joined by cellist Yo-Yo Ma as soloist in a performance of the Shostakovich First Cello Concerto.

• The Program:
• John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox
• Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

Oregon Wine Tasting -- Nov 21, 2010

Drove out for a day of wine tasting in the Willamette Valley, near Carlton.Visited four wineries; Lemelson, Belle Pente, Scott Paul and Tyrus Evan. Gray, dreary day, but, great wines at all. Poor hound dogs had to hunker down in the car most of the afternoon.

Dog Mtn -- Nov 14, 2010

A fall day hiking up Dog Mountain -- would say it was fine if not for the rain. Day was one of those where the clouds were hanging down around 2000', was actually really nice hiking up to the point when we headed into the clouds. Then, a steady soaking rain with a decent bit of wind. This trip, Echo and I made the full loop - he is getting accustomed the rain.

Dog Mtn -- Oct 24, 2010

Got one of the MtnDogs out for a hike on this Sunday. Forecast was for heavy rain and high winds - they were not joking. Echo and I made it up to the 2500' and started the final climb into a howling headwind and driving rain, rising above a sheltering ridge. Echo keep bolting for shelter behind any tree or boulder he could find. I felt so sorry for Echo that we turned back and did not complete the loop -- too difficult to get any photos. Now if only we had some beagle goggles!

Scattering Remains - Enterprise, OR - Nov 7, 2010

Traveled to Enterprise, OR to scatter the remains of Kay, my step mother. Nov 7, 2010 was exactly one year after her passing. The rains let up on Sunday morn and started up right again after placing the final bit in the Wallowa River. I left a little bit in four
different spots in the area around Enterprise; at the cemetery, a hill above Chief Joseph's grave overlooking Wallowa Lake, at Wallowa Lake State Park where numerous family reunions took place and in the Wallowa River. Arrived Saturday night and the MtnDogs stayed at the Wilderness Inn.

Enterprise Cemetery

Hill overlooking Chief Joseph's grave. Gravesite at northeast end of Wallowa Lake with beautiful view of Wallowa Mtns.