Powell Butte Hike Today

We spent the afternoon hiking around Powell Butte in Portland.

Grayson, Lori, Nancy


Grayson posing for his portrait :)

Daisy sniffing away... The lead dog!

Fun Nature Shots...

Memorial Day 2010

Memorial Day 2010 - Thank you to all who have served. You are all amazing!

Washing a skylight in the rain... I am getting soaked today. I am ready for some sun!

The Sound Brigade

Grayson spent the morning helping at a bicycle safety event at school today. Part of their time was playing the drums with The Sound Brigade.

Expose yourself...

Best poster ever made! Great job uncle Mike.

Who designed this system anyway?

Nice, nothing like swimming in the sewer! It has always baffled me as to why our sewer overflow is the Willamett River. I am so glad they are building the new "big pipe" sewer retention system... let's hope it works.

Welcome back rain...

What's up with this?

I understand from time to time in life we may get things just a little wrong and then we try to improve upon our mistakes so we become better at what we do... But what is up with the weather predictions for the Pacific Northwest?



As you can see we are supposed to have rain and cool temperatures all week. Many people schedule their life around the weather so accuracy would be nice once in awhile. I have lived here for 43 years and it seems like the best approach to predicting the weather is to simply look outside. If it is wet then it is raining. If it is bright then the sun is shining. If stuff is blowing around it is windy. And if there is white stuff on the ground it is snowing... Come on weather people....



And as you can see... once again the weather reporters in Portland are not even close. Sunny and not a cloud in the sky. Go figure.

Don't get me wrong, I love the sunny weather... Enjoy the day!

The St Johns Bridge

I was enjoying a beautiful day down near the Historic St Johns Bridge the other day and wanted to share a couple of pictures I took.





Have a great day!

Middle of the road...

Taking the kids for a swim

A few little one's swimming with mom and dad in the Willamette river.

Picture Perfect

Another picture-perfect day in the City of Roses! Enjoy...

Our Blooming Clematis

Today's shot is of our clematis... Enjoy!

Memories...

I drove by our old house the other day... they have now added this really nice wall in front of it and made the old country road five lanes... all you can see from the street now is the chimney. Oh, the price of progress. I am glad we moved, but it sure was nice living there when the chickens roamed the yard and the kids roamed the trees down by the creek.

In Memory of Samuel Elkins

RIP Sam... may the Lord bless you and keep you.

Bustin a move...

Austin is working hard getting this garden window cleaned this morning. Beautiful day to be washing windows... check out my web site: www.seeclearlywindows.com

Learning to park

I came out after cleaning gutters at a customer's house today and someone decided to park right behind me... I don't know but maybe this is just a little too close :)

A view through the trees...

Boardman Sky

A beatiful sky over Boardman Oregon this afternoon.