Oregon and back or bust 1st post

I couldn't wait to get out in the morning for a walk with Lexi along the beach. We had a nice view from our little room, not as nice as this but we could enjoy the beach and the ocean. And of course the smoke from the beach fires at night. Oh well. Early morning was magical.

I wouldn't have known that this was an Auk rookery if I hadn't gone to the Oregon Coast aquarium in Newport the day before. They tell me that the crested Puffin and the Rhinoceros Puffin are two that nest here.

Tillimook Light House. Turns out that this has absolutely nothing to do with the cheese.

The houses on the bluff sell for more than a $1,000,000. and this is the view.

If I lived there and woke up to this tsunami warning siren I would die of a heart attack well before the tsunami arrived.



Bryan being dragged by Lexi, I think she saw a seagull that needed to be herded




My feet really were blue. It was so cold on the beach.





The oregon coast aquarium





a crested puffin




  

Hawthorn is blooming

Nice place to wake up and enjoy the orioles singing their beeks off

Oh my poor garden

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Baby B

I met my new little great neice and what an adorable little thing. I have 4 great neices...one of whom I have yet to meet. This is the latest one...what a cutie just 72 hours old when I met her. .

A walk in Bow Glen Ranch Provincial park  with Bob and Sherry

Flicker with a view

old cottonwood trees along the way. These were huge and growing at disturbing angles

An evening on the deck

Last night B and I sat on our deck looking at the sunset. Most days this is hard to do because of the 'supper' winds. We always burst into song here....think Frank Sinatra and the Summer Winds.  The weather takes a nasty change around 6 o'clock everyday and sends wind howling down the 9th fairway leaving us hanging onto umbrellas and chasing crockery.
But last night was unusual. We could smell the blossoms on the May tree and enjoy the bulbs which are up and in top form.  I have frilly scarlet tulips and sculpted pink and coral tulips. I will soon have daylillies and iris. The oriental lillies always bloom on July 7th. and not a moment before.

I have been beating a track to the nurseries and have a good supply of rabbit food waiting to be planted. Coral bells, yellow mimlus 'monkey magic', poorman's orchid schizanthus ( which looks like it already has bees in it), and bright blue nolana. Plus of course the ubiquitous herbs and evening scented stock.


The rabbits are waiting with their napkins tucked under the chins and their cutlery at the ready. I am getting tired of dragging these bedding plants in and out. There is still the threat of frost everynight but by June 1 we should be in the clear. However the temp hasn't gone down below 9C at night. A sneaky trick that natures plays is luring me to leave them out waiting to pound them to mush with a killer frost, but I haven't left the tomato outside yet. In and out and in and out.

Hail will take it out eventually but hopefully I will have had a tomato from it by them...a $10.00 tomato.

Tree Strangling and Child Wrangling

I finished picking all the rocks out of the flower bed in the front and then offed them to a very kind friend who actually came around and loaded them into her truck.
As I cleaned out the bed I discovered that the ignoramous who planted the tree had ringed it with bricks and red rock and tightly wrapped it with landscape fabric...when it was a sapling!! It grew to maturity with an hourglass figure where the fabric strangled it,and it grew inspite of the idiots that planted it, but it suffered a split trunk and black virus. I I dug down deeper to free up more red lava rock I discovered that they had surrounded it even more with old pavers virtually burying it in a coffin of brick trash.
We had it innoculated and pruned by an arborist last year and after days and days of rock picking it is free  at last. I hope it doesn't keel over in shock.






This little person doesn't have the same sense of gardening that I do. I am not saying who is right but one of us ended up in the tub. She helped spread new loam in the old bed and carefully sprinkled it around and tasted it and stuffed it down her shirt and in her pockets.  and filling up the bird bath....