Tumbleweed Crossing

Speaking of foals. An email friend sent me a photo recently of a foal that is a cross between a zebra and a donkey. Now that critter is real...

Remember the cute little paint filly that was born during the extreme cold a few weeks ago? She is doing fine. The owners fixed up a shelter...

Thanks to all who have read my blog about my trip to Oregon and Washington. I have had fun going through my photos and remembering the trip....

All to soon my visit to Oregon and Washington has come to an end. My plane ticket says that it is the day to fly back to New Mexico, so I gu...

Jim complained he hadn't had a chance to mow the several acreas of lawn they have, but I thought it looked so great with the tall grass ...

Later, after the deer had gone - where ever they go - I wondered up to where they had been and took a photo of their view. You can see it wa...

Jan and Jim's yard would be a great nature watchers place. There is lots of wildlife there. Birds of all kinds, rodents, squirrels, coyo...

After breakfast we decided to take a walk around the large yard that Paddy calls home. It was so pretty and green and there was one of north...

My brother-in-law Jim was unable to go on our trip to the Park because he had to work, and he seemed glad to have us back, too. The next mor...

On arriving back in Clatskanie, Oregon we found Jan's dog, Paddy, more than happy to go home from the Happy Hound Dog Kennel. I think we...

The logs were laying every which away. They were huge logs and some would be balanced on top of others. This big one was proped up on a smal...

Here is one of the logs coming into shore. It was rolling in the water as the tide came in. It couldn't go out due to the rock behind it...

Here is a small sea stack that my guide said looked like a troll but I really couldn't see it, but it was fun to watch the water coming ...

Here is a shot I took looking through some old roots still attached to a log. As you can see the sky was very cloudy and there was almost a ...

What I didn't know when my guide insisted we leave Hurricane Ridge was that we had one more major stop to make. It was at Ruby Beach. I...

On the way down the mountain we stopped at an overlook were you could see across the Strait of Jaun de Fuca and into Canada. I didn't ge...

It was at this time that my guide decided we had to leave so we could head back down the mountain, and go south toward Oregon. I didn't ...

One thing that really fascinated me about Hurricane Ridge was the Altitude. The Ridge is said to be 5,242 above sea level. There are all tho...

Here is more of an close up of the mountains. You can see the snow and a glacier almost right in the middle. It is the closest I could get t...