A Day in the Columbia River Gorge

Hi there, thanks for stopping by! I volunteered at Multnomah Falls today in the Visitor's Center with my younger sister, Denise.  We volunteer 2 Thursdays each month together.  I so enjoy meeting people from all over the world, we always have a special interaction and below you can see one today.  We have drawers full of horns and animal skins for kids to discover and learn from - here are two boys from North Carolina having fun with deer antlers and bighorn sheep horns.  :-)

Below is my shot of the falls for the day.  You can follow the seasons at the falls with me and this is what it looks like in January... no leaves on the deciduous trees, nice amount of water coming over, the sun not yet high enough in the sky to be seen here the whole day.

Now don't scold me but I took this photo with my iPhone while driving.. :-)  See that little bump on the bluff?  That's Vista House.  I was one of the founders and then the executive director of the Friends of Vista House for 15 years.  Now I volunteer for the organization.  Someday I will show you better photos of the building, it's on the National Register of Historic Places and quite the neat little stone building.

I am not driving for this photo.. LOL.. but this is from the top of the overpass at the Corbett exit, I was enjoying the pastel colors of the sky and river as I was coming home and wanted to show you.  This is looking East up the gorge - that's the Columbia River.. I live up on the bluff above this river.

Below is a artsy shot I took yesterday of a dandelion in BLOOM when I came home from my dentist appointment.  I couldn't believe there was a flower in bloom here in January!  I see in our yard that a large patch of Snowdrops are nearly ready to open.  Fun!  There is hope that Spring will come!

I always take some crocheting to work on while I volunteer at the falls, today I took a brand new skein of "Stitch Nation" by Debbie Stoller - "Full o' Sheep", 100% Peruvian Wool in *THE* most delicious fuchsia color - "Passionfruit".  I'm making a Queen Anne's Lace scarf with it, I just tried to take a photo but the color is not coming through with incandescent light.  I was pleased to get about 18 inches of the scarf done.  I'll show you a photo when I get a good one.

OK, time to enjoy the evening, hubby is making home-made fried rice!  Thanks for stopping by!

((hugs)) Teresa