3.13.2012

We had a freak snowstorm on March 13. My wife and I also had an out-of-town visitor. Combining the old, and formerly tried-and-true dictum of the postal service with our tourist guidance service, neither rain, nor sleet nor snow will keep us from showing off Silver Falls State Park. 

On the road to the park. 

I shot this in the driver's seat. 

Not recommended. You can almost hear 

that creepy music from the beginning 

of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."

A stop on the way.

3.16.2012

Maybe because March 16th is my wife's birthday and I was subconsciously inspired. More likely it was a matter of set and setting. I set out to take a ride, with the eventual aim of finding a location where I had happened upon a few months earlier. I eventually found it, but not before stopping at a high creek and reaching a dead end. After rediscovering what I was looking for, I continued on, ending, appropriately enough, at a roadside memorial on the banks of the Abiqua Creek.