What a difference a day makes....

La Pine Oregon first morning

La Pine Oregon first mid afternoon

La Pine Oregon second morning

Chinatown

Just got back from a trip to San Francisco. We stayed right by the Chinatown gate. Here are a few samples of Chinatown signage that just killed me.

Someone's aspirations I am sure. Well apparently, there ARE Alumni.

How? or From what?

Is there something in Buddha's teachings about martini's?

Bonehenge

Well, at least, that's what Eddie and Snookie thought I said we were going to see when we stopped off at Sam Hill's replica perched above the Columbia River. Here's what he said in 1916 and it still is relevant today and always will be no doubt..."The project began when Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site. He thus constructed his replica as a reminder that "humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war."

Bone sniffing dogs

Hmm, not a bone, but smells delicious!

Snookie overcome with reverence.

Default mode

Screw the bone angle, let's go find some poop.

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands...

I've never mentioned that we have two feline family members. Dizzy and Tuffy were feral kittens left behind by a neighbor. From garbage cans, to porch feedings, to cat housing, to darting in and out of the house quickly, to their own private bedroom safe and sound.

Tuffy, professional kneeder, keyboard typist, and chirper.

Dizzy, takes the term Lap Top literally. 

Tuffy, apparently the happy one, and Dizzy bearing witness.

My Dad

My dad, Stan, turned 93 years old on September 28th. My sister and I celebrated with him on a short road trip to Leavenworth. Here are a few snippets:

Although Stan is working on his watch band, he always has deep thoughts. One of which he shared with us this trip: "Nothing ever is destroyed, it only changes shape. "

Stan's essentials

Cat in a basket in Tonasket

Truckers

Stan and Terry keenly observing people in the Cottage Cafe over pie

Stan's dad's cabin originally built in the 1930's in Easton.

Famous landmark 

High Tailing it out of here!

Driving on Rainier Avenue behind this truck. Guess it must have been a one trick pony...

Blog Paralysis

Yes it's true. It's a slippery slope. First a week goes by simply because there's no time. Then another. And then it seems too complicated. And finally, it becomes monumental. I'm talkin "blog entry paralysis". Well, I'm breakin the cycle. Yup, breakin it with an image that I find to be interesting. It's of Tika and Koko, two shepherds on a bed in very soft focus. Some might even say out of focus. Some might even say "it's the Twillight Zone".