A walk around the outskirts of town.

Tonight Randori and I went for a nice long walk. We left the apartment a little before 6 and returned just about 8:45. We walked to downtown Independence then headed out main street to the Independence Bridge and across to the Breyman's Blueberries. We left the Blueberries and walked about 1/4 mile down the road and then down towards the river. we had a great trip. My dog has became LAZY I had to practically pull him up the bridge. When we got home he layed down and went right to sleep.

Mary's Peak

Here is Uncle Buck on our hike up Mary's Peak. We arrived later than everyone else. My Brother Kevin and family came over to our part of the valley to go to a rock show at the Polk County Fair grounds. So we went and visited with them while they ate a Burger ville. We had a great short visit. It was really nice to see themsince we had not seen them for 5 years or so. We talked about making sure we get together more often we don't live that far apart.

We met Uncle Buck at the closed gate since he came back to get his jacket. There was still some snow on the ground and it was a little cool in the shade. we walked with Uncle Buck til he decided he needed to jog up the hill ahead of us and catch up with the rest of the family. We managed to catch up to Aunt Linda with Baby, our Cousins Scott, Jasmin, Maddy and there dogs Roxanne and Penny. We had a very nice walk up the Mountain. We ate lunch at the parking lot that was not currently in use. Then we continued on up the Mountain. We had a great view of the Coast Range we could see from Crater Lake in southern Oregon to Mt. Rainer in Washington near Seattle. Here is a picture of those that made the final assent threw the snow to touch the marker at the top.
(left to right Roxanne(dog), Jasmine, Maddy, Uncle Buck, McKenzie, Randori(dog))

This is the first training hike of the year for a summer of backing trips. Thank you guys for making it such a wonderful day. McKenzie and Randori both slept on the way home.

HDR

Here is my 1st attempt of an HDR image. I also removed the hand that was holding the pizza.

NNFL Jamboree

Wow what a great but extremely busy weekend. Yesterday was the NNFL - National Nine Man Football League Jamboree. Here is my artistic Image from it, which one do you prefer? Let me know what you think. Here is a slide show from it.

These were shot tonight at McKenzie's 1st track meet. I was windy and cold. The kids did well. McKenzie took 4th in the 200 meter dash. She took 1st for Talmadge in the 100 meter Hurdles or as she likes to call them the Hurdelers.
















Trey came to watch his Aunt compete. However he decided it was a lot more fun to run all over the place.

Selective Color 1st attempt.

Today I decided to try Selective color. It was much easier that I thought it would be. But Now I have to get better at it.