"Explorer Spirit…Servant Heart…"
Posted in FRIENDS on Nov 5th, 2024
Portland’s Downtown hosted a Bloom Tour. Local merchants teamed up with floral artists to display flower art in front of or inside their stores. We began our tour by visiting the Lan Su Chinese Garden, the followed the map to find the 20 something exhibits. It was a terrific way to spend the day with […]
Posted in FRIENDS on Nov 5th, 2024
More precious moments and memories created with girlfriends. My Cali friends Stacy, Elyse, and Jodi flew up to Portland. I picked them up and we enjoyed a three fabulous nights in Manzanita. Included massages at Spa Manzanita, a walk through Nehalem Bay Park (we saw elk), visit to Hug Point and Ecola Park overlook, and […]
Elyse, Kelly, and I got together to hike the Flower Farm Trail. We will all be doing a part of the Camino Frances in September. After the Flower Farm Trail (I don’t know what it’s actually called, that’s just what we call it), we had brunch at the Flower Farm Cafe.
Posted in FRIENDS on Jun 23rd, 2024
I had hoped to get all the USA Camino friends together for a Spanish potluck and movie, but two had to cancel, so it was me, Kelly, and Tina. We still had a wonderful afternoon of good food and watching the movie, The Way, with Martin Sheen.
Time with some of my favorite people on a favorite trail… Stacy and I hiked and she treated me to lunch at a cute Italian restaurant in Auburn. For my birthday, David, Ryan, Kat and I hiked and then went out to lunch at Lazy Dog.
Posted in FRIENDS on Jun 20th, 2024
We were in Manzanita over David’s birthday and celebrated him with our friends, Matt and Meghan 🙂
Posted in FRIENDS on Jun 19th, 2024
David and I decided to visit Manzanita for a few weeks in winter. We got to enjoy a light snowfall. Lovely. I also enjoyed a ‘girls night out’ in Astoria with Jules, Lisa, Barb, Mary Lou, and Maddie. We went to a movie in an old theater that had nasty carpet on the walls, and […]
Before attending a Broadway musical, I like to listen to the music ahead of time so I an enjoy the play even more. The music from’Six’ is such a joy, I wondered if it would usurp ‘Hamilton’ as my favorite. Well, it didn’t, but it was a terrific production, nonetheless. A fun outing with good […]
Posted in FRIENDS on Jun 16th, 2024
So.much.fun. Annie and I were roomies and Lisa chauffered us around. She took us to this neat east Indian market that also had a counter service lunch. It was delicious. Then we went to the Venice canals and walked throughout and saw gorgeous properties. We also walked along Venice Beach and enjoyed watching skateboarders and […]
Posted in FRIENDS on Jun 16th, 2024
This New Year was hands down the best New Year! I flew up to Seattle to spend New Years Eve with Michelle to see my favorite childhood band, Heart, perform in the same venue I saw them back in 6th grade for my first concert! We rang in the New Year with them singing ‘Old […]