birthday birthday

An overnight bed & breakfast adventure in Astoria. The weather was perfect- & I'm in love!

An array of excellent signage:

The room across from us was full of excellent fashion sketches by a Don from the 1940s. Swoon!

The view from our B & B

.... at this point blogger is making me really mad with it's 'sorry you can't rotate photos after you upload rule' so there are just a few more before I go crazy. These are from Battery Russel, it's full of magic there, and a little bit scary.

A woodsy hike...

Daisy crowns

This post is sorely missing a slough of hats- damn you blogger! But they need to be shared so I'll find a way.
Portland is looking more like Portland in the spring- I want to worship the sun all day every day!

wine and snow

This past weekend was romantical wine and snow getaway- and it totally flooded. Water in the valley, water on the mountain- Mt. Hood Meadows got 3 inches of rain in 2 hours! And .5 inch an hour every hour after that. That's just crazy. Of course the day after we leave the flurries start in again- oh well. Hopefully we'll be back up there again soon! McMen's Grand Lodge was fun except for the fact that our radiator was having a nervous breakdown- it honestly sounded like someone was banging the place down with a crowbar. Awful. They gave us a $10 gift card for some beers which takes the edge off a lil but may I recommend you never stay in room #5... OR #221, it's haunted.

 

The Grand Lodge was once an orphanage, then and old pals' home.