Home from Oregon

The girls and I had a great time as usual down in Oregon visiting my parents. We had trips up to the mountains, beautiful lakes, volcanic buttes, arts and crafts fairs, farmer's markets, waterfalls, bug infested hikes, lots of wildlife sightings and fun in the hot tub. Added bonus we missed almost all of the major heat wave that hit everyone back home. Even though it was warm (90's every day)in the Redmond/Bend area it wasn't bad because Mom and Dad had central AC as does everyone down there. Plus there is almost always a breeze and it cools down to the 50's. Can't wait till we go back down again in about a month for Labor Day weekend!

Now onto the pictures...

The girls stayed cool by enjoying some icy pops



Here are Mt Bachelor and a different angle of the Three Sisters than we usually see from the house. These were taken from the top of the butte at the Newberry Lava Lands Visitor Center.



This is Paulina Fall's right outside of Lake Paulina. It was a very cool 80 foot tall double waterfall. Dad and I hiked down to the bottom so I could take these photos. There were actually quite a few people sitting on the rocks and cooling off in some of the little pools. And yes, the sky is actually that blue in real life, it's because of the elevation we were at.

This was a shot during our bug infested hike along the Deschutes to Benham Falls. Beautiful scenery just could have done with out all the mosquitos.

These are the cows that keep getting loose and wandered onto Mom and Dad's property leaving hoof marks in the newly paved driveway.

Some pretty flowers in Mom's gardens.
and some beautiful Central Oregon sunsets :)