May 31, 2023 Yachats, Oregon

 High 50's, sunny and windy. It is really cold with the wind and the humidity. 

We  hiked along the Valley Trail to Hobbit Trail to Hobbit Beach. Arrow on  the right is the campground and on the left is the Hobbit Trail. We hiked along the beach on the way back. 4.5 miles. Beautiful hike. There were tons of rhododendrons along the trail.

Skunk cabbage reflected. John on the Valley trail.

Cliffs with wind blown trees and scotch broom. Hecata Head. 

Green anemones and barnacles in a tide pool. John looking at tide pools.

Anemones. Rhododendrons, Hobbit beach trail head, pea flowers, beach strawberries, acorn barnacles, pea flower buds and scotch broom.

The bus in our campsite at Carl Washburne campground. Sunset.

The almost full moon on top of a weird tower. 

May 30, 2023 Yachats, Oregon

 High of 59 sunny and windy on the coast.

China Creek on our way to the beach. Rhododendron, salal, false lily of the valley, heart shaped rocks, clover and buttercups. 

There is moss on everything. The trail to the beach from the campground in green tunnel.

Bridge on the highway. Seagulls over the cliffs.

A standing log. I thought it was a person at first. Reflection on China Creek.

There is very dense foliage near the beach. Carpets of ferns and moss.

Modern petroglyph, wild iris, salal flowers, wild cucumber, huckleberry, and forget me nots. Sunset on the beach.

The wind is blowing hard from the north, there are small dunes behind the rocks. View south toward Hecata Head. 

John with sunset and sunset.

May 28- 29 , 2023 Eugene, Oregon

 78 and sunny. Beautiful day.

We went hiking at Mt Pisgah with Leslie and Scott. Some art made from natural materials. 

Sunbathing snake, Dogwood, wall flower, red columbine and wild iris.  John, Scott and Leslie in the cedar forest. 

John, Leslie, Scott and Rhody at this metal tree. The top was a windmill like thing painted with leaves, that looked like it should spin, but it didn't. John, Scott and Leslie in the oak savannah.

Rhody on the trail.  Monkey flower, berries, octopus tree, scotch brome, cat's ear lily and white flower. 

Field of daisies. Rhody swimming in the coastal fork of the Willamette River with Leslie, John and Scott keeping an eye on him. 

Young men swimming. Old barn.

78 and sunny. Another perfect day. We went to a Memorial Day BBQ at Scott and Leslie's house. Leslie, Scott, Jackie, Larry, Ann Marie, John and Nan. And by the end about 5 dogs for fun.  Scott BBQed tuna and chicken and we had three salads and three deserts. Very  yummy and good to see every one. 

Dessert. Sunset over the Willamette river on the way home. 

May 25-26, 2023 Eugene, Oregon

 81 and sunny.

We escaped Oregon Motor Coach and went for a walk at Doris Ranch. The trail lined with delphiniums. A coyote trotting through the grass. Some people came by and laughingly told us that we needed to put our dog on a leash.

Blue dick, rose mallow, wild rose, coyote face, and wild iris. Poppies, blue flowers and a couple of fun license plates on RV's here. 

The trail was lined with these small white flowers. Robin, white flowers and wild cucumber. 

John cutting through the woods in a tree tunnel. Trail lined with tiny white flowers. 

We found out today that this part of the parking lot is referred to as the campground. It has electrical hookups. We are second from the right. The other areas are the fence and the gravel lot- they don't have hook ups. There is a good chance that we will be finished tomorrow. We have been here 3 weeks. The last thing to be done is to have the carpet on the ceiling cleaned tomorrow. It has 21 years of grease on it above the stove. John would not let me clean it, he thought the carpet might come off the ceiling. He wanted a real RV carpet cleaner to do it. A couple more dichroic glass pendants that I wire wrapped. 

John made this delicious stir fried shrimp for dinner. He ran out of soy sauce, so it is half hoisin sauce, which added some sweetness. Yum yum. Sunset over the blackberries on the fence. 

81 and sunny. We waited for the carpet cleaner to come and clean our ceiling in the comfort of our bus instead of the waiting room. He was late, came at 2pm. But did a great job. Titus cleaning the carpet on the ceiling in the bus. Before and after the carpet cleaning over the stove. The before does not even show how gross the grease soaked carpet was. It looks beautiful now. 

John was reviewing the bill and realized that they installed a different light than the one he wanted. So Glen got it installed. We then left the parking lot we have been staying in for the last three weeks. They did a really good job on the bus, so it was worth it. We are now at a lovely RV park called Deerwood just east of Eugene, with trees, grass and shade for the Memorial day weekend. John was lucky to get a place with such late notice before the holiday weekend.