Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Beautiful Pacific North West

I just returned from a visit to my son, Kurt, who lives in Portland, OR. He and his girlfriend, Katie, always find great places to take me. This time we spent a few days in Bend, OR, about a three hour drive from Portland. We were rewarded with beautiful views everywhere we went. I took a lot of pictures, but most did not very successful. Don't know why. Here are just a few that were pretty good.

We walked a ways into the woods to see this roaring waterfall.


The moss on the rocks near the bottom of the fall was the most incredible shade of......well, moss green.

The foliage was spectacular, but very little of the brilliant reds and oranges we are used to here in the North East. Mostly what we saw were the glowing yellows and golds of the aspens.


The bright orangey-red low shrubs are huckleberries. We even got to sample a few.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks again for making the trip. We had such a great weekend! ~Katie