Today's Walk Around the 'Hood

Jenna and I went for a walk today.  Here are some of the sights we saw and pictures that she took.

Love the blue

Jenna has always posed with fire hydrants
since she was small.  Keeping up the tradition.

she took this one from our backyard

Nature Around the House

Today I took a walk - not to Millsite.  Not up the street.  The only place I walked was around the house.  My walk in nature (LOL) .  It's a pretty pathetic post folks.  But then so is our yard.

backyard near the shed

the back side of our house

the hill (not much of a yard)

this snowball bush has definitely seen better days

looks like the remains of a campground firepit

where we had our greenhouse before the
snow storm ruined it last year

taken May 2017

I don't know why these remainders haven't made
it to the garbage can.  I'm certain it's rotted now

shelves could still be useful

grass has gotten high and needs to be mowed

trench - or part of it
https://beneaththewraps.blogspot.com/2019/08/changing-yard.html

reminder of the pepper plants?  

find it interesting what fall lies beneath; for
the most part it does feel like autumn

decayed trees lying on the ground

it does get green this time of year

vines that gave us pumpkins; their very existence
was quite by accident - at least on our part

other side of shed (as opposed to top picture)

view from driveway

another fall/autumn leaf beneath the spring clover

I usually remove the dead flowers in November.
I missed doing that in 2019

This is what it normally looks like  in spring

and then we get blossoms

This is how our rosebush looks currently

this is how it looks during the summer

with two shades of yellow

This is the neighborhood cat.  We call him/her Salem

symbolic of hibernating due to Covid-19

Rain and Snow

We have had wild weather all the way around. 
Mostly rain. 
But it snowed on I5 between Canyonville and Azaelea. 
I got pictures on the way down to Medford. 

When we returned, the snow was gone.

Bandon from the Trolley

                We had seen the trolley on Saturday and Jenna had wanted to ride it at that time.  We did not take the opportunity then, but took advantage after we returned from Face Rock.  We had returned to downtown Bandon for some souvenirs.  Jenna specifically wanted a shirt from Washed Ashore, but there was fifteen minutes before it opened.  Roland led us to the toy store.  Somehow we had lost him and Jenna and I were outside when she noticed the trolley.  She asked the driver how much it cost.  When he said “free” Jenna had more reason.  The trolley comes by every hour.  We got on without Roland, but I didn’t think it right for us to be gone from him for an hour as he would have no idea where we were  (I had left my cell phone in the car or else I would have called him) and got off at the next stop and walked back.

 We went back to the Gallery where Jenna purchased a sweatshirt (which is now a permanent part of her body) and I purchased a book called Sea Change (here).  We did some more exploring and waited on a bench for the trolley to return.  I am so happy that Jenna had the opportunity of riding as she said it was the highlight of our trip.  Jenna took almost a hundred pictures - many of them blurred. With some I couldn't figure out what she it was she was trying to capture. She did get some really nice ones. With the exception of the first picture, Jenna took all of these pictures:

waiting for the trolley to return

microsoft Zeke filter

outlook for elephant rock

 

a bit blurred, but shows the town on water's edge

boat can be rented through Coos

the last picture that she took from the trolley