Posted by admin on June 12, 2012 in
Musings,
Travel The weekend before last, Betty and I ate a sumptuous Sunday supper with our daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Baruch Ellsworth, at The Corson Building in the Georgetown area of Seattle, Washington. After dining we headed back north to our lodging and noticed Mount Rainier, whose bottom was obscured by clouds that made the mountain [...]
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Posted by admin on June 10, 2011 in
Musings Betty and I recently spent time in south-east and south-central Oregon with friends, looking at the rippling water, the green-gray sage, the juniper, the snow-covered mountains. While driving between Pete French’s round barn and Diamond, we heard a particularly melodic bird song. I stopped the car and rolled down my window and the sweetest sound [...]
Tags: autism, beauty, bird song, cattle feedyard, cattle working pens, Diamond, Down's syndrome, John Wayne, Oregon, Paul Zarzyski, Pete French's round barn, poem, sage thrasher, sagebrush, Steens Mountain
