Sunday, March 23, 2008

March Madness 2008

DeWayne came home as usual on Thursday evening. On Friday we went down to Lincoln City and he put in my new crowns and bridge. He still has a little work to do to make my partials fit better so I will get them this coming Thursday evening. Here are some of the sights we saw on our trip. These are not in order as you come to them on the highway. I'll be posting Easter pictures in a day or two.


The Nestucca River south of Tillamook.


Beaver Creek south of Tillamook.


Moss covered trees along Highway 101.


More moss covered trees. It covered the trunks and all the branches.


The three graces--at Barview, two miles N. of Garibaldi.


The smokestack in Garibaldi.


My hometown, Garibaldi, from across part of Tillamook Bay.


When Garibaldi had its own high school it used to be the school's job to maintain and paint the G.


A view of the Nehalem River from within the town of Nehalem.


A view of the Nehalem River from the town of Wheeler.


The Nehalem River.


The bridge just north of Tillamook.


Snow covered mountains and pasture land near Tillamook.


A Navy jet at the entrance to the Air Museum in Tillamook.


The old WWII Blimp hanger at the air museum with snow covered mountains behind. We're having cold weather for the coast.


Devil's Lake in Lincoln City near DeWayne's dental office.


Looking South down the coast from Neah-Kah-Nie Mt.


A tunnel near the summit of Hwy 101 on Neah-Kah-Nie Mt. This is the tunnel where my mother used to sing "In the tunnel, beep beep" honking the car horn on each beep, all the way through the tunnel. I sang the same song to my kids in every tunnel as they were growing up and some of them sing it to their kids.


Haystack Rock from Mo's Restaurant near Cannon Beach were we stopped and had clam chowder on our way home.


NOW FOR AN UPDATE ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD


Grinding trees into bark chips.


After the big logs are removed, the remaining branches are ground up and travel up the conveyor belt. Here it is landing in a mound on the ground. Sometimes it lands in a big truck that sits under the end of the belt.


Early signs of spring on this tree.


Rhiannon and Ryder playing with the neighbors 5 year old twin girl and boy and their dog.


Flowers in front of Rite-Aid.


Pussywillows.


Flowers in a neighbor's rock garden.


Rhiannon with the camera playing photographer.


My partner when she comes home from school at 3 p.m.


This tree lost its top half during the windstorm. It needed to come down.


De working on one of the damaged trees.


Our barren driveway. I miss the trees.


This is where the kids were tree climbing a few months ago.


Wood piles like this are everywhere in Surf Pines.


Probably the most expensive house here. Certainly one of the more spectacular as it is on the highest point and has a circular portion that rotates.


A view of Tillamook Head just south of Seadide


The road down to the beach.


Rough surf.


Our LDS chapel in Seaside.

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