The Molalla River at Canby

WPA/CCC Built this South Falls Lodge in the 1930's.

It was designed to look like Timberline Lodge.

It was built as a restaurant and now houses a small cafe.

Great fireplace to get cozy and out of the rain. CCC info inside
as well as June Drake prints. Volunteer docents are there to welcome you.

Without volunteer hosts, this park wouldn't run smoothly.

Thanks hosts!

The white dot on the left is a person.
This is a picture I forgot to put on the first week I was here.
South Falls has decreased quite a bit now that the rains are over (for a while).

Shelf Fungus. Official name to come.
Verrry medicinal.
Please leave 'em if you find 'em though!

This is a really blurry picture of one of the types of rock
formations that have formed in the basalt under the shelf of the
Lower South Falls Waterfall.
Picture doesn't do it justice but it's way cool.

(Big) Raccoon ? track on the banks of the Molalla River last week

Wildflowers amassed on the Canyon Trail
A name that I once knew but need to look up again.

Lower South Falls

South Falls with Old Big Leaf Maple

One view from under Lower South Falls

mi summer casa firepit

another view from under Lower South Falls

Firs at sunset on Summer Solstice

This is a Salmonberry. They are ripe at this state, albeit a little naturally tart.

They are everywhere here now.

The lone Columbine in a meadow of Irises and Lupines.

I feel like this Columbine at times....I reckon most people do.

Lupines

Silver Falls State Park

My brother Patrick would have loved it here....

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them".

A.A. Milne (via Eeyore)

Winnie-the-Pooh

Happy Summer Solstice!!!!!

The sun was out all day here!

Really nice to be above the 44th parallel! where the sun goes down really late!

"When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. "

Paul Brunton

picture of bumpersticker borrowed from a friend of a friend on facebook....

No it's not Obsidian Falls but a cool feature on my el cheapo cell phone camera...

177 ft. South Falls in the reverse

View between some trees of one of the meadows in the park

Can you believe this cell phone tower? A hundred feet away it's really hard to tell what it is...it blends in so well. Apparently it's an Oregon thing....way cool in the woods

see below for the rest of this Silverton mural.....

Beautiful old Silverton Victorian . Maybe it's the Pacific Northwest air...but I have seen more old great vics here in Oregon than anywhere else I've been. Or maybe Oregonians are just smart enough to not tear them down...

Stone Buddha a cool shoppe on Main St. in Silverton, Oregon
The Historic South Falls Lodge built by the CCC in the 30's SFSP


Bobbie the Wonderdog mural in Silverton

Bobbie went with his family on vacation to Indiana in the early 1920's

He was lost but eventually found his way back to Silverton by I think 1924...


Moi in front of South Falls my first week here...

I've got Rocks in my Head too...
WOW a Rock shop too...am I in paradise or what?
it's on Water St. in Silverton
Owner Walker Yeates sez he gets rocks from about 5000 different people around the globe....

mmm Thai food....
water st. Silverton

from behind south falls


Crochet flags on water st. Silverton
The same owners of The Stone Buddha own this...
way cool knitting shoppe called

"The Purl District"

Silverton is a gold mine for old victorian houses and old bungelow/arts and crafts era houses. I am crazy about both....


another old vic, Water st. Silverton This was/is a B and B thats for sale...time to buy a lottery ticket?

One of the remnants of the old logging town "Silver Falls City" that is still in the park. These apple trees are over a 100 years old and were planted by the Volz family...


The base of the same tree...

Another of the great Silverton murals. This one highlights The Mammoth, apparently the worlds largest camera in 1900....

southeast corner of my summer abode

plenty o'room on the floor for say an air mattress

and a coupla really cute little dogs...

Sent out an email to try and i.d. this a week or so after I first posted it.

Jury might still be out but I am going with Yellow Parasol for now.

Thanks Jodi.

A Cabin built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 30's.

They refurbished it for me to live in and I Love it.

In the following years other Seasonal Naturalists will now have housing. So cool.

I am happy to be back in the Pacific Northwest.

I think it must be the mushroom capital of the world.

I am determined to learn mushrooms (besides Chanterelles , Puffballs, Shitakes,Amanitas and morrells) as well as Lichens and mosses this summer. Big long time holes in my Natural History knowledge.