May 27.2025 Belknap Hot Springs Resort, Oregon

 80 degrees and sunny.

We finished up at Oregon Motor Coach and headed into the hills to Belknap Hot springs. Here is the bus in our campsite.  The hot pool for the guests staying here only. 

Hot spring for the public and the guests, behind the lodge.  The McKenzie river behind the resort.

John on the trail to the Secret Garden. A pond with lots of green reflections.

Rhododendrons on the trail.  Rhododendrons, Pacific bleeding hearts, cow parsnip, spotted dead nettle, ferns reflected, white berry blossoms.

John on the trail. Rhododendrons, geranium, snow balls, thimble berry, spring beauty, mix, red rhododendrons and Japanese snowballs, bleeding hearts. 

Gazebo along the trail, John on the trail.

Bridge. Secret Garden.

Secret Garden. Moss covered rocks and green trees.

Secret Garden. Waterfall in the Secret Garden.

Backlit John and ferns. Another nice bridge over a stream.

This building used to be the electric power plant for the resort. There is a water wheel in the bottom part. 

On the trail back. Bear in the gardens. 

Purple iris and fountain in the Asian garden, forget me nots, bugle herb, columbines, rhododendron. Yellow iris and a fountain in the Asian garden. 

I finished this basket. It is made from dyed and natural pine needles, polyester thread, glass beads. The center is a test piece of glass I fused, supposed to be trees with sun rays behind, but they look a little like cactus. It is 9 x 10 1/2 x 2 inches.