Once in awhile-now and again-this is us

we stopped in the little town of silverton. there was a store there that I loved and wanted to go back to.

it was this wonderful family owned store with wonderful things to look at, especially this red pyrex dish ware.  (picture is from 2010). I was hoping it was still there so I could buy it.

but it was gone. nowhere in the store. nothing like it. because now it’s just a another junk antique store, with individual spaces,  with just the same old stuff that is in all of them. what a disappointment. I didn’t buy anything. I did see this peter rabbit though.

I would have liked to have this, but not at that price.

silverton is the town that had the norman Rockwell four freedom murals. I put them in the blog last time, but I think they are worthy of another showing.

I think these are great and what a great thing to have in their town. what is the status of our freedoms today?

we got back on the road and headed toward Ashland. I sat in the back for awhile to stretch, something else you can do in a motorhome, and took a few pictures.

mooooooooooo

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our trips cost a lot of money in one way or another, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. if you have not traveled in a motorhome, you haven’t traveled first class. I know you think you have, but in my opinion, this is the best way to go.

the benefits of having your room with you wherever you go is amazing. we don’t worry about where the bathroom is. we don’t worry about eating crappy meals, we have our kitchen with us. if traffic is bad we can pull over and play cards. a nights stay is an average of 25 dollars. we have some of the best views you can get.

we see some unusual things

this isn’t a fire, it’s a sunset

it’s an inspiration every day

you have your cake and eat it too

Christmas is only 129 days away

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after our evening at the resort, we went into the gardens.

I always take too many pictures, so i’ll just put in a few of my  favorites.

thanks for bringing me to another garden, yummy face.

but one more thing

we go to Ashland for the shakespeare festival

so stay tuned for more

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this time the ooops didn’t publish. I looked at all my wonderful comments and wondered why nobody commented on the zoo. there and behold it was still a draft. so i’ll publish this and if you want to see that you’ll have to check it out.

we had a great day. I found lots of treasures. while I was shopping jerry went out to the coach and made reservations at the Oregon garden to stay in the honeymoon suite that night. what a surprise. we stayed here in 2010 and I loved it. we had a nice dinner included in the room package. we are having breakfast now. wifi didn’t work in the room, so I brought sam, the computer, with us.

I have to tell you I loved all the comments. I laughed out loud at the comments from tony and chris. you made my day, thank you.  I love it when all of you take the time to let me know what you think and when you see something you didn’t know existed. it makes the trips so special. and I know every post won’t be for everyone. boring to tony is exciting to Martha.  boring to Martha is exciting to ray, so on and so forth.

so make my day and……

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and read on

it looks like I put a post in the page section. so if you want to see the funny zoo pictures you will have to look at the top or right side of the home page to see the pages tab. sorry about that. I thought the setup looked different and thought wordpress had changed again.  I couldn’t figure out how to get the page to go to a post.

I just got through eating bacon and eggs for breakfast. now,  jerry is going to do the laundry, do the dishes, clean the coach, change the sheets, and make me another cup of coffee………..not.

we’re on our way to that goodwill outlet.

love you all

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unlike seattle we have found parking very easily and close to all our stops in Portland. but, the traffic is horrendous. after a crash it took us a half hour to go 5 miles.

we parked this close to the museum

we came to see this exhibit

this was my favorite painting and I forgot to get the info

I don’t know what I expected, since I didn’t know about these gardens. I knew I would never see them so this would be a good way. it was. I learned a lot.

we don’t know where we will go next. since it’s my birthday, it will be wherever I want. but it won’t be in one of these.

there is a gooodwill outlet nearby

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when we were here in 2010 to see the roses,  it was before the festival and the roses had been pruned to be in bloom for that. so we didn’t see many roses.  this year they were in full bloom.

thanks for bringing me here honey poo.

I didn’t take any

but it was hard

we went to the zoo next

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as I put this post in I just want to say, how sad it was to hear of robin William’s passing. we are not watching any television or reading papers. we don’t listen to radio, only books on tape. the only news we get is what is on the msn home page. I saw it yesterday and felt great sadness that a human being can’t think of any other way to be happy. I have enjoyed his humor over the years and will miss seeing him grow old. not watching tv we have not been bombarded with countless overdone coverage. thank goodness.  I see lauren bacall passed also. is everybody wondering who the third celebrity will be?

we see countless barns and old houses on the road, but pictures from the coach just don’t work. jerry had to stop to call a campground and it was right by this barn. eureka. my moment to take a few pictures.

farewell

while we were still in Canada, this object, a bird flew in front of the coach.  it looked like a stealth bomber.  is that an eagle?

yes it is. a free spirit of hope.

we also see a lot of bridges

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we stopped in Tacoma to see union station. some of these old restored train stations are as beautiful as a capitol buildings. since this is chihuly’s home town, of course it has some of his work in it.

you can see the difference size of the wholes in the tubes.

since they restored it to a different use, the train artifacts weren’t  displayed. only a few pamphlets survived. it was a chance to see another part of the history of the trains though.

the museum of glass was right across the street, but we didn’t venture over there again since we had spent a whole day there in 2010. you can watch them blowing the glass in that big cone shaped building. we had seen the capitol that trip too so we didn’t visit that either.

we drove on down the road and ended up in castle rock for the night. I finally got to use my cherished item from the blacksmith.  most of the campgrounds we’ve stayed at haven’t allowed campfires, maybe because of all the forest fires,  I don’t know. so I haven’t gotten to use my poker. it’s a big one too. you don’t have to stand close to the fire to use it. it’s going to look nice on the fireplace at home, where I can see it every day and remember an amazing moment in time.

oh what a night

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omg. I love this mans work. i’m sorry, just to warn you, I may put in too many pictures here. I’ll keep the words to a minimum. you can’t really describe them anyway.

in the gift shop you can buy his pieces.

it was a wonderful day. we had the most delicious crab cakes and lime coleslaw in the café. chihuly displays all his collections under glass in the center of the tables and on the walls.   jerry has the green reel on the  left.

and on the ceiling

the gardens are in the shadow of the space needle. we didn’t go up this time. been there done that.

stay tuned for portland

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we got up even earlier sunday. we knew what lot we wanted to park in, so we had to get there early to give jerry his pick of spaces.  we made it. and only one block away from the market. the same place we parked four years ago.

today was much better on the freeway wouldn’t you say?

we went in the market today.

of course we had to put our fingers in the pig.

2010

we bought some smoked salmon.

I would have loved to buy some of this shrimp, but we had just paid thirty dollars for a pound of salmon.

the flowers are so beautiful.

the line to go in starbucks.  see their sign at the end.

we saw the gum wall this time. it’s plastered with gum almost to the end of the alley.

as we drove out we saw this sign at the entrance to the market. your idea caught on ray.

we thought we’d try our luck parking at the gardens of glass. we’ve seen the museum of glass and bridge of glass in Tacoma last time.

so stay tuned.

but just one more picture

did you know that Canada has done away with pennies?  when you buy something they round up or down.   I think that’s a good idea. since they said it takes two pennies to make one penny!

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