May 27-30, 2021 Eugene, Oregon

 64 and partly cloudy, Bit of rain in the am. 

Back at Oregon Motor Coach Center the place is packed. There are also 10 coaches in the bays and a few in the back parking lot. We are almost done. Just waiting for one more part. I worked a bit on the new masterpiece. It is 8 x 6 1/2 inches. The center is a piece of mookaite my friend Pam gave me.

Sunset tonight. Field of flowers on our walk with Leslie and Scott at Doris Ranch. 

John and Scott in the filbert orchard. Another field of flowers. 

A holey leaf, Leslie, John and Scott ahead of me on a lovely forest trail. 

The Willamette River. I added a couple more rows to the masterpiece. It is now 8 1/2 x 10 x 1 1/2 inches.

We are parked next to a Newmar King Aire. It is at least a foot taller, and 10 feet longer. It dwarfs ours. It has slides on both sides, we only have them on one side. It is a well over a million dollar ,high end, luxury coach.  Sunset tonight. 

I added 2 more rows to the masterpiece. Seems to be taking forever. These big baskets take a long time.  I oiled the wood in the kitchen this morning. 

Homemade pizza and kale quinoa salad is what's for dinner tonight. Yum yum. 84 degrees and sunny today. We kayaked with Leslie and Scott on the Willamete river. Very mellow ride. Leslie, Scott and John. 

Leslie and I sat on the beach with flowers. John and Scott  just stayed in their kayaks at the beach. 

John, Leslie and Scott running a riffle.  Horse on the shore. 

Green trees, flowers and turquoise water. John and Leslie running another riffle. 

A pinnacle on the river bank. Swallow tail butterflies getting a drink. . 

Another two rows on the basket.  It is getting some curvature now. Big basket, complex stitches. John reheated pizza for dinner. We ate on the deck by the office. 

May 26, 2021 Drift Creek, Oregon

 54 and sunny. 

John, Scott and Leslie at the Drift Creek trail head. This is a lush area of old growth trees . Rhody, Leslie, John and Scott on the trail.

Trillium, bleeding heart, unfurling fern fronds. The waist to shoulder deep foliage is very dense and very, very green. 

Old growth forest. Unfurling fern fronds, trillium flower and seed, indian pipe and smooth Solomon's seal. 

Near the creek the trail got narrower and higher. Some of it arched over the trail. Drift Creek. 

 Leslie, John, Scott and Rhody had lunch on the sunbathing rocks at Drift Creek.. View up Drift Creek.

Leslie heading back under moss covered tree limbs. Salmon berry from the shrub arching over my head, spring beauty flowers with moss and with ferns, red and white flowers growing through the ferns.  

Leslie and John passing a huge old growth tree and disappearing into the green. The ferns along the trail were waist to shoulder high. 

Old growth forest, John on the trail with the big trees. 

Oxalis leaves and bloom, tall monkeyflower, and mushrooms in the moss. Leslie walking through the moss covered boulders at the end of the trail.

The ocean from the road on the way back. 

The bridge over the Siuslaw river in Florence. Beautiful, historic downtown Florence, Oregon. 

We had a nice dinner of seafood burritos and enchiladas at Traveler's Cove in Florence. 

May 25, 2021 Waldport, Oregon

 High of 54 and partly sunny.

This morning Leslie and I found the beach, it is a block away from our cottage.  Rhody flying through the air after  a stick in the surf.

Pink flowers on the beach, red clover, sea oats and a yellow sand verbena. We kayaked Beaver Creek this afternoon. John photographing yellow iris on the bank of the creek. 

Scott made this beautiful wooden sea kayak. Leslie paddling up Beaver Creek. 

A mother mallard and her ducklings along shore. It rained and was beautiful and misty. 

Flowering bush along Beaver Creek. John and Leslie ahead on Beaver Creek. 

The sun popped out for awhile and Leslie sunbathing. Leslie ahead paddling  under a flowered tree. 

We came to a log across the river that we could not go under and turned around here. Huge skunk cabbage bloom, yellow flag iris and twinflower.

All the waterways along the coast are affected by the tides. We were boating on neap tide. The tide was coming in- flood tide- as we paddled up, neap is when it is still at the turn of high tide, then on the way down the tide was going out-ebb tide, so it was like paddling downriver both ways. Deep in the neap were were calling it. Paddling out on ebb tide. Leslie waiting by yellow iris which matched her jacket and paddle. 

Big yellow pond lily, wild rhododendron and salal. The beach where Beaver Creek runs into the ocean is Ona Beach. Leslie, Rhody, John and Scott on Ona Beach after our paddle . 

Leslie and Rhody running into the ocean. John walking along Ona beach. 

This cool green seaweed covered rock has tide pools on it.  A cool colored channel in the rocks. 

Looking down Ona Beach. Canada mayflower, milkvetch, holey rock and a beach rock flower. 

Rocks along the cliffs on the beach.  Scott and Leslie at the Salty Dawg, where we had dinner. 

Cinquefoils, a dove among white asters and a  couple of barnacles with seaweed attached. 

We are in a tsunami zone. There is a big fault just to the west in the ocean off the coast of Oregon and Washington. It is shifts a tsunami will head to shore.  At sing for the rest rooms at the Salty Dawg where we had dinner-Restrooms Men to the left and Woman are always right. On the wall above  our table was this mounted walrus wienie. The waitress said they have them in all the bars in Alaska and the owner also has another restaurant in Alaska.