Lake Billy Chinook

This time of the year the Lake is empty but if it was summer you would see boats as far as you could.

Wow what a pretty sight, If you are ever traveling from Mt. Hood to Bend take the turn that says Pelton Dam. You get to see a working Dam that is closed off probably due to 9/11 but you can still view most of it. If you continue on down the road you come to this really cool camp ground and then a park both are positioned up on the rock ledge looking down onto the water, well you would have to see it to understand. Continuing on down the road you have the view I am showing you here in these photos. After a while you will end up in Culver, Oregon. This town reminds of where I grew up in Warden, Washington, so every now and then I like to travel though this town just for that feeling, there really isn't anywhere to stop in Culver but then again there really isn't anywhere to stop in Warden either.
This Juniper tree was loaded with juniper berries so I just had to take a photo to show. If you look off in the distance in this photo we are still up pretty high and the view is amazing..

Post Cards from the Desert

This post card reminds me of the time we were in Portland on New Years Eve 1999, we were on the Max riding down town to ring in the new year with the kids. The train was packed and we were all dressed for a fun evening in the city! Just like this post card. Read on to find out more.

I have lived here in Central Oregon since the early 80's, I really didn't appreciate the desert until Glenn came into my life. He showed me another side of dirt and sage brush, I have since travelled through and around more of the Central Oregon desert then I could ever imagined. I have camped, explored, hiked, watched jets fly under the radar, and even got into a June Bug hatch. Glenn goes to the desert more then I do and when he goes without me he usually brings me home some treasure that he has found. I have received presents that he has restored or just gave me with the desert dirt still attached. There has been times when I was given bones or some hairy dead thing that I didn't except. I don't think I hurt his feelings it makes him laugh more then anything. But there also has been times when he brought me home a really good find. Take this box that was just laying in the dirt out in the middle of nowhere. I just love the postcards, I have not used them I just keep them in a drawer, so I can take them out every now and then just to look at them. I wonder if Glenn even remembers finding them? So the next time you are driving down the road and all you see is Central Oregon Desert, take a really good look around because you never know what you will find.

This is the box with all the cards.

These cards look like where someone has been. These cards are the "women" in the person that owned the box before me.

Faith and beyond!

Above left must be favorite actors, to the right is what I can see as their "rights".

To the left is the kid in all of us.

This card is one on my favorites on the back of the card it says, "THE MARRIAGE 1989", it looks like to me they are on a hill by the ocean and Dracula is performing a wedding?? So weird, I really like this one. I have added some cards to the box and who knows maybe some day I will have Glenn take me to where he found them in the desert and I will put the box back for someone else to enjoy like I have. In the mean time if you are ever over to my house and you want to see my box of desert cards please ask I just love to show them to people and listen to their responses to the cards.