We are home from vacation.  Some of the places we visited were heart-breakingly beautiful.  This is Ashland, Oregon, home of a Shakespeare Festival.  It wasn’t festival time when we were there, but it was wonderful to eat our lunch outside, then browse through the shops.  Ashland doesn’t take itself too seriously, at least not in [...]

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It took me a full day to get used to taking the highway that was going south.  I guess we were traveling a one-word trip.  We needed to change “north” to “south” if we were to go home. It’s been a good trip.  We breezed through central Oregon with a stop for lunch at Ashland, [...]

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As we traveled north, it became greener.  For a drylander trees of this caliber are a wondrous thing.  Now, north and east of Seattle everything is green.  The trees are tall and numerous.  Ferns grow underneath.  And everything is dripping wet. Today I had to buy a warm jacket.  I don’t mind shopping, but I [...]

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We are traveling south to north on the west coast.  This is Oregon Coast. These are California redwoods. See you a  few miles down the road. Marilynne

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