May 14,-18 2024 Eugene, Oregon

 75 today and sunny. 

The coach in the shop getting worked on. It is the third on down. They also started the body work on the side of the coach. Small mishap with a cement thing in the  storage lot and pipe in a gas station. 

Iris in the garden at Oregon Motor Coach. I have never seen this type of flower, it is in a pot in front. It is verbena Lanai twister pink. 

Sunset from the RV parking  lot. 81 and sunny. Another day at Oregon Motor Coach while they work on the bus. We met friends at the Public House, which is an old church that is now a bunch of restraints and pub. We call it the beer church. The stained glass windows and choir loft an where the alter was is a lot of beer on tap. 

Leslie, Scott and John with brews and dinner at the beer church.  Karen wanted a sour beer and when it arrived it was green.

The bus with a little more prep for the painting. I finished this basket today. It is made from dyed pine needles, polyester thread, glass beads and the center is a piece of glass I fused.  It is 11 x 9 x 3.

Back of the basket in the sun. And a metal turtle on the side. The bus back on the lot for the weekend. 

John an I went to Dorris Ranch for a hike. John in the delphiniums. Dorris ranch is a historic hazelnut orchard. It was planted in 1905. All of the trees now have the hazelnut blight. In the top photo John is among some of the newer blight resistant trees were planted. Of course the blight mutated and they also have it now. The lower photo is some of the older blighted trees. 

John with very tall ferns. I love this part of the trail. Deep dark forest along the river. 

Deep dark forest. Camus, wild oats, ox eye daisies, spring beauty, blue dick, cow parsnip, nettles, and a bouquet of the wild flower some one picked and left in this stump. 

 Meadow foam and big blue Mary. A plaque telling about the orchards planted in 1905 by George Dorris. Most of the hazelnut trees in Oregon came from this orchard. 

Black berries, hawks beard, big blue Mary, meadow foam and he sign to the hazelnut orchards. Welcome to Springfield, Oregon. 

Sunset tonight over the parking lot.