Oregon Beach Photos

I had a great weekend at the Oregon Beach! It was warm, sunny with not much wind! Uncommonly good weather for this time of year. It was beautiful so I took lots of photos between Lincoln City and Newport. Lots of surfers were out at the Otter Rock/Devil's Punchbowl beach.....

Hope you had a great weekend as well! I'm off to list some new things in my etsy shops! Have a good day! Kitty

A Warm Breeze........

 

  

 

  

Okay, I've had it with winter!

I know I keep saying that.....so I am going to pretend it isn't winter today.

It's warm and the sun is shining.....

Here are some photos that I took at the Oregon State Fair this past August.

  I love the gardens and ponds that they have every year.

Always colorful and creative.

Since I was with a group of uninterested family....

I had to dash through the garden

and take photos on the way to the food!

I would have taken many more but I was running.....

Enjoy!

Historic Jacksonville Oregon Trip

Just got home from a fun end of summer trip to Southern Oregon. It was a 2 car caravan of kids and adults to Grants Pass to take the Hellgate Jetboat Excursion trip down the Rogue River. We took the same trip last summer and wanted to go again! My sister and I took all of our kids and my grand kids too. We had a great time! We stayed in Grants Pass after the Jet Boat ride and the next morning we headed to Jacksonville.

Jacksonville is a small historic gold rush town near the city of Medford. We rode the trolley around town, listened to the guide give us some history and took as many photos of the beautiful historic homes as we could.

We had a great lunch at the Bella Union Restaurant and Saloon. Great atmosphere! We sat outside on the patio but the saloon looked like great fun too! I had the best Chicken Sandwich....ever. It had a chicken breast marinated in walnut and gorgonzola pesto; grilled with prosciutto ham and fontina cheese on a fresh bun. Yummy! I would drive all the way back just to have another....

My sister and I have decided that we will be going back (sans kids) and stay at the quaint Magnolia Inn sometime this Fall. If you live in Oregon or are considering a trip here you must visit Jacksonville. It was the perfect end to a wonderful Summer!

Blue "Rose Parade" Hall Pitcher from AntiqueCellar

I think this is the prettiest pitcher I've seen in awhile! I love the extra floral detail on the handle. It's one of the things being featured tomorrow on my blog vintage shop of the day. It's from AntiqueCellar on etsy---click on the photo to see more about it. I should buy it while it's still available but I just treated myself to a new camera lens that I shouldn't have. Pssst....don't tell my husband!

P.S. Check out AntiqueCellar---lots of great stuff there!

Picnik Photo Editing Fun!

I took this photo last summer about the same time I discovered the photo editing site Picnik. You can upload your photos and do all kinds of fun and creative things with them. The photo above is one I took in my back yard. I uploaded it to Picnik and decided to experiment with different text, etc. You can make your photos look like a sepia tone, black and white, holga style, ortinish and a lot more including many different frames and a large variety of collage styles. You can blur around the edges of your photos too for that "fuzzy" look that is so popular.

You can also edit, fix, crop and rotate your photos. You can add text, effects and embellishments. I love the collage feature, especially the fancy collages that you can use in scrapbooks and cards. You can even change eye color in your photos for fun!

It also links up to Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket and more.

It's free for most of the features or you can pay $24.95 for Premium Picnik to have unlimited use of all the features for a year. I'm paying for it because I wanted to be able to use everything. You can really do a lot for free! I have enjoyed it and it's helped when I've made some banners and avatars for my etsy shop (none that I am using right now) but I did use it to add the text to the banner on my other blog here. This sounds like an advertisement for Picnik! I swear I'm not getting paid! Just wanted to share. See it here: http://picnik.com

Retro Kitchen In the Summer Time

I love this kitchen! It looks so fresh and inviting! Clean and crisp! Makes me long for Spring (I'd rather skip forward to Summer, if you don't mind). It's raining here in Oregon today.....so dark and dreary. I miss my trusty, well loved hammock.....

I will pretend that this is my kitchen and it's a beautiful sunny kind of day! The warm breeze is gently billowing through the curtains. I can hear a single engine plane buzzing outside (something about this always reminds me of Summer). The birds are chirping and a dog barks in the distance.

I can imagine baking a fresh apple pie in that red oven. I put it on the windowsill to cool while I sit at the table, leisurely drinking a very tall, cold glass of strawberry lemonade. Ahhh.....I feel better already! How about you?

Curb Appeal...sort of.

Here is the photo I promised of my little "curb appeal" project from last weekend. This corner had a huge rhododendron and a very old yellow climbing rose that had outlived it's time in my garden. There was some very stubborn ivy hiding under the rhodie too! It really didn't take much time to do all the work.... which always leads me to wonder why I tend to avoid it! It looks so much better than before and I no longer have to wonder who may be hiding in those bushes! It was very creepy when the rose hips would scrape across the window too! I need to stay motivated to do the rest of the yard before all the good weather is gone! As all the summer flowers die down over the next month or so I will be replacing them with assorted colored Mums....oranges, reds, yellows and browns. I love autumn so will probably have lots of appropriate decor in my yard. I love to decorate with pumpkins, gourds and flowers. Okay, I will post a pic of that too when it happens!

Suttle Lake Flowers In The Morning

I took these photos just as we were packing up and leaving our camp site at Suttle Lake,Oregon: Link Creek Campground, Space 20. The flowers looked so pretty in the morning light that I had to get some photos before we left! I'm not sure what they are but I like them!