Working man blues

Now we're here, but I'm working full time for the first time since June 30. Although I enjoy what I'm doing, I can see that I really like retirement because I don't have to put off the more frivolous (sp) things that I want to do, like this. Anyway, I promised some pics. Here is one taken from the Perrine bridge Sunday morning when we left. Again, I'll let Georgia post most of the photos of the trip. Also the photos here and the last couple have not been downsized to work better with the site. If you haven't figured it out, you can shrink this stuff by clicking the lower right corner and changing from 100% to something else. But it shrinks everything, so you will probably want to go back to 100% to read the fine print.

Here's a snap of Burns, Oregon. We pulled in here after crossing 150 miles of Oregon mountains on a 2 and sometimes 4 lane road (not interstate) through some beautiful mountains, open grazing land, etc. then we crossed a basin that was flatter than any Illinois road for about 40 miles. The problem was that there was snow on the road most of this way. Just before we came into the basin, we came on a wreck where a motor home following a u-haul that was towing a car (I think they were all together) had apparently slid into the u-haul, then flipped over. The nearest town was Burns. We drovw on snow-pac most of the way until we hit this valley Sunday. Then the snow disappeared and it was like April in Illinois. You want snow? Take a look at what it looked lik out our winshield as we left Burns and headed into the Cascades. Fortunately it didn't last too long, but did come and go. So every time these big flakes would come drifting down, Georgia would cheer and I would groan. Then it would stop and I would cheer and she would groan. By the time we got tro Corvallis, we were both groaning.

Here are a couple of pictures of southeast Oregon in February. As I think we said earlier, we came through the really pretty part in the dark, so we'll have to go back to see it in daylight and get some pictures. I believe I got it right by quoting Georgia's frequent comment, "Oohhh! Myyy! Godddd!