Explore a bit…

‘If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.’ Anatole France

Heron Rookery amongst the trees…

Every Fall, the nests for the large birds are quite evident once the leaves fall. This on Sauvie Island NW of Portland, Oregon.

Seeking a connection…

“Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow…” Sheri Webber

Floral farewell…

Sigh…I won’t be inundating you with flowers, particularly roses until next Spring…not that I don’t have a gazillion images saved. Heavy rains have battered them down; last struggling buds trying to blossom. Colder temps and rain bringing those efforts to a halt.

Light please…

This time of year, in the Pacific NW, gets darker and blah if you don’t make an effort to get out and take in some form of light. I wouldn’t have done well cooped up in a cabin, snow bound, months on end….’stir crazy’ comes to mind.

Photo from a Fall outing on Sauvie Island, NW of Portland, Oregon

oh oh…

Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty’s paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s. Gayetty’s Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, watermarked with the inventor’s name. Also read for fun: http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2016/…/shack-out-back.html (Pic of dive bar wall in Portland)

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Outhouse in the hills above Hood River, Oregon

Weathering the waves…

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” Dale Carnegie (Headland @ Pirate’ s Cove, Oregon)