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2012
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Wordless Wednesday - Pinned! This is our son, Sam, at Monday's middle school wrestling match at Cedar Ridge Middle School in Sandy, Oregon. Sam wrestles for Wy'East Middle School and is having a killer season, pinning both his opponents at this match and two opponents at last week's competiti...
02/08/2012
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Wordless Wednesday - One Pitiful Pup This is our Australian Shepard, Chance, who has a sore on his foot, which he has licked into an infection. The wound isn't a big deal, but we had to get him to leave it alone, thus... THE CONE OF SHAME. The poor guy thumps around the house, slamming into e...
02/08/2012
Hood River Valley High School Ranks 7th Statewide On Graduation Rate! Oregon State School Superintendent, Susan Castillo, announced on Jan. 27th the percentage of high school students who graduated in 2011 in 296 schools statewide. Hood River Valley High school graduated 86 percent of it's hi...
02/05/2012
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Speechless Sunday - Muscles! This morning I continue my series of "summer shots" with this, one of my single favorite shots of our boys, Sam and Ben. They were about three and four years old and when I interrupted their running through the spinklers to ask them to show me their muscles, they ...
02/05/2012
Silent Saturday - Gorgeous Winter Morning On Mt. Hood This is the view of Mt. Hood this morning, about 1/2 mile from our house in Parkdale, Oregon. I took this at about 8 a.m. this morning. on the way to our son, Ben's, basketball game. Today promises to be sunny and gorgeous. Is it any wonde...
02/04/2012
This Sweet Little Girl Can't Wait To Be Your Baby... Meet Lolla Lee Lou Lolla Lee Lou and her sister, Cindy Lou Who, are the sweetest little babies you'll ever find. The vet is guessing they're around seven weeks old and they are just tiny at less than four pounds each. They seem to be chihua...
02/03/2012
Friday's Foto - Crossing The Columbia, The Dalles Bridge This is the bridge crossing the Columbia River from The Dalles, Oregon into Dallesport, Washington. I think of The Dalles as being where Western Oregon transforms into Eastern Oregon as the topography changes drastically from just a few...
02/03/2012
Wordless Wednesday - The Columbia River Through Winter Trees This is another of Mel's photos. This is the Columbia River, as seen through winter trees from the city of Bingen, Washington, just across the river from the town of Hood River. I never get tired of photos of the river. You just can...
02/01/2012
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Wordless Wednesday - Oregon Red-Tailed Hawk Mel took this photo near The Dalles, Oregon (about 20 miles east of Hood River) of what I believe is a young red-tailed hawk. That's one of the things I love about living here... all the wildlife, particularly the abundance of hawks and eagles, as c...
02/01/2012
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