Geo

Check out the poetry and musings of Geo! I have mentioned him before but this post is one of my favorites.
You can link to all of his blogs by clicking on "View my profile"
http://trainrideoftheenigmas.blogspot.com/2010/06/time-travel.html#links Train Ride of the Enigmas, Gardening with Geo and Invalid #39's Workshop never fail to inspire. And don't ever stop dancing, Geo!

Picture from Michael House's Facebook Page

(a relative of my niece, Mary Siemer House)

"Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon."

Ikkyu - Zen-monk poet, 1394-1481

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