More from Astoria

These first pictures were taken on Monday evening between 9:00 & 10:00PM...

The first one is of the Young's Bay Bridge between Astoria and Warrenton, OR and the others are taken of the Megler bridge between Astoria and Chinook, WA... It truly stays light here until about 10:00PM...that's not so good for an old gal who likes to go to bed around 9:00PM...well maybe 10:00PM...and sometimes even 11:00PM...Just depends what's goin' on...or not...
Yesterday wewent to the Gray's River Falls with Kaley leading the way...well, we ran into a huge constriction site...but in the end we made it there... We have found that in other states...the road safety regulations for road work are not the same as in CA...you just ride along the roads with the big equipment...it is really crazy...But we got there and it was worth the ride...but you gotta know that this "Old Broad"...was not in her element...I had to "HIKE" down to the river...now remember it was 93 degrees here...never that hot in Astoria...???...and I can't usually make it through the grocery store...on flat ground... without sitting down...Well...off we went...knowing all along that "what goes down...must come back up"...

Isn' it beautiful??? This was taken at the top of the hike down to the river bed...See Mike and Kaley...if you check out the slant of the foilage on the right you will see the grade of the path down to the river...I sure wish I had take a picture of the path before we started back up...then you'd be really impressed...I hate it when Mike takes pictures of me...but this one is OK...atleast you can see that I really did make it to the bottom, all the way to the river...It was truly a beautiful sight...and I would make the trip again...There is really nothing like a beautiful waterfall...there were lots of people down there getting cooled off from the very un-common heat of the day...Kaley did stick her toes in the water...but that was as far as she went...sometime I would love to take a picnic down there and let her and a friend play in the water...It would make a nice day and a great blog posting...
There is this little cave looking place along the pats...a good location for a Papa and Kaley Picture...We are really enjoying our stay here in the BPNW...there is really nothing in the world like it...

Cathlamet, WA and the road to it...

A Sunday Drive

Today we went to Cathlamet...on the way is the Gray's Harbor Covered Bridge...

It is really cool...much different from the Covered Bridges that we found in the Catskill Mts. Of New York State...

I tell you...there is not a view up here that isn't a picture...as I said before...Just too beautiful...

I was hoping you could read this historical plate...but as you can see...it is un-readable... The surrounding country side was amazing...there are lots of Scandinavian Farm out here in this neck of the woods and they are beautiful...landscapes that movies are made in...
Then there is Cathlamet...it is on the Columbia River...Awesome little town...very deserted today so we just drove around and found a cute little place for an early supper...Check out these ducks...they were basking in the sunlight...
This is the river as it comes into the marina area...
This was one of the store fronts in Cathlamet...so pretty...Then there was this BUS...what a BUS!!!This morning we went to the Sunday Market...didn't stay long but it was really awesome...

Tomorrow I'll go to Kaley's house and we'll work on her New York scrapbook pages to enter into the Clatsop County Fair...

Yesterday I did two pages of pictures I took of Isabelle and Autumn on Mother's Day and entered them into a contest at the Scrapbook Connection in Astoria...I'll include the pictures of the pages when I get them back...I think they turned out pretty good...we'll see...how the public sees them...

Cathlamet, WA and the road to it...

Working on the House

There was originally these beautiful Cedar Shakes on Tom and Suzanne's house...then someone along the line put Blue Vinyl Siding on it...and covered up an awful lot of the history and character of their little house...Here you see Tom putting a coat of paint on the little alcove wall...they are just trying out this color..It really did look good as it dried...it is called Maryville Brown...it is an authentically historical color that was used in this area in the years that this house was built...
Mike was the "clean-up" guy...he went around pulling all the nails he could reach ands picked up all the debris as Tom threw it all on the ground...If you look to the Left of mike at the back of the house there is a pile of light blue "stuff"...well that is the siding that they took off today...it is all piled up in the driveway...that driveway goes down at a good slant behind the house...that pile would be up to Mike's shoulders if he were standing on the ground next to it...

You can see the difference here ... the alcove is really lookin' good...what do you think???
It's a long way from the pitch of that roof to the ground...watching Tom tear the siding off was kinda scary... SO...we went to Tokyo Tereyki....for "take-out"...YUMOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Some Shots from Astoria

Well...here are a few pics from Astoria...the first 2are taken down town...I was sitting in the car for Mike and Kaley...You know, up here, every where you look there is a picture waiting to be taken...I know that I must have taken thousands of pictures up here...but there seems to always be another one just around the corner...

Then it was time for the fireworks on the 4Th...



You know it doesn't get dark up here until about 10:00PM...it is 9:30PM as I write this and there is still daylight out there...tonight it is cloudy...so it is a little darker than usual...because of this the fireworks didn't start until about 10:00PM and it was still a little light for a food viewing...

I really don't have a clue...about taking pictures of these fireworks...but some of them came out looking pretty good...I had a lot of really bad ones too...I love "digital delete"...

The weather has been really nice...very "cool"...and mostly sunny...just the way I like it...today was a little chilly but I still love it...you will never hear me complain about "cool" weather...

Kaley is wonderful...she is turning out to be such s lovely young lady...she is so polite and attentive to the needs of others...most of the time, that is...

OOPS

I forgot the pictures of the marina and the oyster house...so here they are...

So there you have it...

Sunset at Winchester Bay

Well, well, well...Today we went to the Movies again...we saw "Live Free and Die Hard...with Bruce Willis...and, as Mike says, it was a "Kick-A**" movie...did a little shopping...had a little dinner and visited a little with the guys around here...

I did get some killer pics of the sunset tonight so I will share them with you...

Then there is the marina right outside our door and the "Oyster House"...too pretty to not chronicle here on our blog...

Tomorrow is cleaning day and then Sunday we will head up to Astoria/Chinook...

Hope all of you are haveing a great evening...