Autumn in the Park

After a weekend of gray skies, the clouds cleared and we had a spectacular blue-sky day yesterday.  I went to the park to check out the fall colors. The water at Mirror Pond has gone down about 2 feet due to a break in the dam that creates the pond.  The dam is 100 years …

Tumalo Falls

This weekend I decided to take one last trip up to Tumalo Falls before the road is closed for the winter.  It is only about 20 miles from my home but the last three miles are over a dirt road. In the spring the dirt road is graded and fresh sand is put down, but …