Morning in the Neighborhood
by Steve, November 25th, 2012
Multnomah Falls’ younger cousin
by Steve, November 25th, 2012
Nature Church has a new sanctuary
by Steve, November 23rd, 2012
Found a new Nature Church sanctuary in the neighborhood. I’m going there all week. Peace out.
Purple days
by Steve, November 9th, 2012
Fly Amanita
by Steve, November 8th, 2012
Warning: do not eat!
Tualatin River Diaries, Days 4 & 5
by Steve, November 6th, 2012River Mile 7.3 – 11.2
(Click for full-size view)
We just hung up the canoe for the season, a couple wishful weeks after our last weekend of good paddling weather. Our final days took us back to Tigard’s Cook Park, the same as day 1.
This time we headed downstream to the I-5 bridge. With the exception of one shallow section with some rocks to navigate (river mile 9.3, see map), this was the most unobstructed section of the Tualatin we had yet paddled.
The next day, we put in at the Rivergrove boat ramp (river mile 7.4), and paddled back up to the I-5 bridge. Heading back, we decided to continue downstream on a broadest, straightest, most unobstructed stretch of the river we paddled, to the Lake Oswego Canal (just west of Wanker’s Corner, where we’ll start next srping).
Note to future self: This stretch of the river was our favorite so far. (But we’ve still got several miles to explore!)
Autumn in Oregon
by Steve, November 4th, 2012I think I still owe a Tualatin River Diaries entry for our last 2 days of paddling this year. That will have to wait. Meanwhile here are some Autumn nature pics from Z and Steve’s Church of Nature (meets every weekend at a green space near us).
Yesterday, we went to “Newt Day” at Tualatin Hills Nature park. (Sun rise is from earlier this week.)
