Steve and family traveled Friday, Saturday and Sunday before landing happily at home Sunday night, just in time for online schooling to resume on Monday. Munazza sent photos...
"Volcanic landscapes"... (Mt. Lassen area...)
"Best for last"... home...
It had been over two years since we've seen and measured the grandkids and their parents. Their heights the last time they were here, and every previous time, are written on the door frame of our kitchen.
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| Cedrus is right where Kestrel was at his age |
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| Kestrel is almost as tall as his dad |
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| Steve is still the tallest, but Kestrel is catching up |
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| And then there's Johnny... |
They wanted to see waterfalls so we drove up Yoncalla Road to the nearby waterfall on a tributary... But first they had promised me a concert so a concert we had... with talented Kestrel playing guitar and singing while talented Cedrus played the piano. Those kids are amazing.
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| I'm not quite sure what's happening here. If everyone is taking photos of everyone else or of themselves? |
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| Cedrus modeled for me next to a big tree on the path down to the top of a hidden waterfall |
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| Cedrus and Kestrel by another huge doug fir |
Since Steve and family had rain and fog and wind on their drive up the Oregon Coast, we took them to "our" beach on the north side of Cape Kiwanda. It was a beautiful day with a very low tide, no wind, ...and lots of other people on spring break. But the beach was so wide that everyone had plenty of room to be isolated from everyone else. I took the opportunity to do my mile walk south for CoastWatch while the others played.
But first there was the requisite stop to ooh and aah over Gunaldo Falls, which actually has a decent amount of water this time of year.
Someone said that if you narrow your field of vision to just the waterfall and stare at it for several minutes, when you then look to the side, the trees or whatever is there will look like they're moving upward. But your supposed to be close to the waterfall when you do it. So they thought it might work from far away, as we were from Gunaldo Falls, if you used your hands to narrow your vision. I was too busy taking a photo of these strange people covering their faces while facing the waterfall to try it, but I'm told it didn't work.
And then it was off to McPhillips Park and the beach. It was a very low tide as I walked south toward the Cape.
And then it was back home. The first baby goats of the year had arrived the second night of their visit, so before packing up and leaving on Friday, all had to come see the new babies.
I managed to get photos of the baby goats, but not the people. They did get to hold them.
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| Out the driveway |
Our California kids and grandkids at the farm... The kids arrived Monday night with supper for all from the Bay View Thai Kitchen restaurant in Depoe Bay. Delicious! We will definitely be visiting that restaurant again. On Tuesday, we hiked through the woods and arboretum.
Cedrus tries out the bouncy bridge 
Kestrel and Johnny 
Cedrus and Kestrel meet Annie 
Steve meets Annie, too 
At Agency Creek on our farm 
Cedrus is outgrowing our little Cedrus tree, Cedrus Deodora 
Kestrel helping Johnny with his new camera 
They discovered this skunk cabbage with an insect stuck to it and thought the insect was being eaten, but skunk cabbage is not carnivorous. Insects just love its rotting flesh smell.
On Wednesday we drove up the road to the waterfalls off Yoncalla River road. That will be in the next post... Day Two
We are enjoying the photos Steve and Munazza are sending as they sightsee their way up to our farm from California. Kestrel and Cedrus are on spring break and having a wonderful adventure in a beautiful, rented RV with their parents.
The first: On Our Way
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| Will have to find a way to release the emergency break first… |
Lunch stop first day... at Black Butte Lake
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| Big Cats World Park - Oregon |
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| Smith River - California |
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| Honey Bear RV Park - Oregon |
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