A hike with my resident friend Erik up on Mt. Hood.
Flowers...
A flutterby :-)
More flowers
More documentation of the progress in my back yard; the latest addition here is the big ol' gas grill!
And a look at how the front yard is growing in.
Had a barbeque as my "deck-warming" party (Kim and Bob here are the first to show up) -- threatened by rain, I set up tents!!
Here are Kevin and Tu
Cathy and her kids came up from Corvallis
A look at the tents from my neighbor's window. What a scene!
Another hike on Mt. Hood, with Nancy and a friend of hers from work.
Me with my new bicycle.
Jumping now to the end of my trip to Europe (see the TMB page), here is Jeff picking me up at the airport...
The next day he cooked me a super yummy dinner...
Another weekend a little later, we went on a bicycle ride to the Edgefield for lunch...
And the next day we went kayaking from Scappoose Bay out to the end of Sauvie Island
The little lighthouse there...
A seriously gourmet picnic on the beach...
Jeff found a new friend to go swimming with...
Exploring some "ruins" on the way back...
Our kayaks seem happy together, yeah?
As do we...
Jeff got water in his boat on the way back. This was just a funny picture.
More developments for my back yard: bought some bamboo...
...and planted it in this lovely pot... This picture also shows the totally gorgeous new privacy screen I had built for the hot tub.
Next up is a backpacking trip, first weekend in October, into Eagle Creek. Just one night but it was great to get back into the woods...
