Just for fun, I played around in infrared while I was in Oregon. (One of the buildings is just across the California border, and the two in color are from Plush.)
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It’s a tradition for me to photograph these sweet girls when I’m in Lakeview for a summer visit. Kamaryn moves from cute kid to beautiful young woman in front of my lens, while Kaley remains 44 pounds of pure Pixie.
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This afternoon, I told my kids if we could just knock out our Christmas photo against a red wall I’d found out at 5 Corners, I’d buy them ice cream. And to my surprise, they complied — well, after we got past their two-headed-four-armed beast series fun. :)
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is Lakeview High School. This morning, I caught up to my classmate Mark Beagle for coffee and my son captured us as we stood in between California Pizza Kitchen and Starbucks.
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Dinner in Joseph, breakfast in Imnaha, dinner in Boise, midnight snack in Boise, breakfast in Denver, drinks in D.C., dinner in Virginia.
Or something like that. It was a long, long day getting home.
Note on Joseph, Oregon: it’s amazing. It reminds me a lot of Ouray, Colorado. The place is the definition of outdoor recreation. The man at the sporting goods store told us he tells people life is great, he locks the door each day at 6 p.m. and goes on vacation. Now how many people in D.C. say that???
Anyhow, after three weeks in cattle country, we felt like Chinese food, so we had dinner at P.F. Chang’s in Boise. Boise has come a long way since I was a kid, efforts to revitalize the downtown area are commendable. We had a great time walking around, browsing through shops, enjoying happy hour, eating dinner and then walking some more, past the fountain, down past the Capitol and on to Starbucks for coffee and dessert.
Our daughter’s fortune cookie read:
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She asked us what “altruistic” means, and when I told her “selfless” and “doing good things for others” she replied, “Oh, that’s not mine; someone in Japan must’ve gotten mixed up.”
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Pairs as in Shimano. Keen. Teva. Frye. Nike. Flojos.
I’m fascinated by these trees lining isolated stretches of highway, dripping in passerby’s artfully tossed footwear. I’m a shoe girl, what more can I say?
My sister and her family live on a cattle ranch at the brink of Hell’s Canyon. We’re on our way to visit. Out here, even the cattle guards are the real deal, not the painted-on kind.
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There is enough water in Crater Lake to give each man, woman and child on earth 700 gallons of the purest pH balanced water available to drink. (Shhh, don’t tell California!) It’s the deepest lake in the United States and the seventh deepest lake in the world and, believe it or not, most of these images are straight out of the camera — meaning no, I did not Photoshop that blue! The water is so pure, all but the shortest visible light rays (blues) are absorbed. Crater Lake is positively spectacular.
The dinner, drinks and company at the lodge wasn’t bad, either!
Guess which photo will make our Christmas card this year?
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As I kid, I used to photograph Angie; now that I’m all grown up, I still photograph Angie, but not until after I first get past her adorable daughters!
Here’s the kind of girls Kamaryn and Kaley are: we ran into them one day at the pool, they were riding their brand spankin’ new bikes home from swim lessons. When they heard that we didn’t have bikes to ride here, they offered for us to borrow theirs. Mrs. Angie gave her shiny new bicycle to my son and asked Kamaryn to let my daughter have hers — Kamaryn jumped off and handed over her brand new pink toy with a smile. Very impressive showing of generosity from a 9-year-old! We spent the next day of our vacation sailing through the air on bicycles, sans traffic, exploring all of my childhood bike routes.
Kaley is 5 and greets me each day with a hugs and tells me that she loves me. Small town friends are very special, especially when the friendship spills over into the next generation.
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The L that overlooks Lakeview from Black Cap is much bigger and much farther up the mountain today than I remembered it from when I was a kid. We hiked it anyway. Up we went with friends, paint, water, snacks, backpacks, kids, and a few cameras. We found some dead animal skulls sporting huge teeth and watched as paragliders sailed just overhead.
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We had breakfast in Virginia, coffee in D.C., lunch in Arizona, coffee in Nevada, ice cream in California and dinner in Oregon. My 8-year-old looked over at me on the airplane and stated with confidence, “Ramona lives in Oregon.” The possibility of finally befriending such a fabulously mischievous heroine of her favorite fiction is wildly exciting.
As we drove along 395, my son asked, “Where’s all the traffic?” Ah, the American West.
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