When vacationing in Central Oregon, a day spent soaking in the beauty of the Metolius River is a must. Nick, Kim and I spent a couple of days camping at Canyon Creek campground in early July. Nick and Kim had the luxury of sleeping in Nicks VW while I enjoyed the confines of a borrowed tent. Nick generously and patiently gave me my first fly fishing lesson, looking back, he hasn’t asked me to go fishing with him since.
As I enjoy the warm and dry confines of our camper (it has been raining since yesterday) my thoughts revert back to January of 2005, a warmer and dryer time and place. On a lonely road in southern Arizona I came across this Saguaro Cactus Skeleton.
We’ve taken many, many pictures since we’ve been on the road starting September, 2003. From time to time we look back at our photos and reminisce. We’ll post some of these photos in the category “Robert’s Photo Album”. Here’s where we were and what we saw a year ago today!
Deer and javelina visited our campsite at Davis Mountains Indian Lodge State Park in Texas. On our way to Big Bend National Park.
The baby of the family was so cute, but the big boar daddy was very protective!
We had a wonderful time at a little party thrown by our neighbor Linda. It was officially a beading party, but we didn’t get much beading done. Instead we admired and enjoyed the appetizing looking and delicious hors d’oeuvres she provided. The phyllo wrapped “Embezzlers Purses” were filled with sausage, pine nuts, feta cheese and other delicacies and tied with a green onion stem. They were as beautiful to look at as the trays of beads Linda spread out to work with. Needless to say I spent more time with the Embezzlers Purses than the beads!
The REAL First Snow has melted and we had our two days of Indian Summer. The weather is moving into a cooling mode now. The few apples on the one apple tree are inviting to the deer that pass through. The deer have also finally found our flower pot and nibbled the petunias down. They were past their prime bloom so I won’t begrudge the deer a last snack before the winter.
