Trip to Oregon

Virtually no sooner than we got back to Snowmass from Ireland, it was ' off again ". This time to Duncan,  Katy,  Oli and Maggie in Corvallis OR.  We enjoy this delightful college town more every time we visit. The days take on a certain pattern. Biking to Market of Choice, coffee, some grocery shopping and odd chores , then picking up Oli from his  (new) nursery and going to the play park. Domestic bliss and quality time with Oli. The pics tell the rest of the story including a long weekend in a rented house in Bend OR (way beyond those snowcapped peaks - The Sisters - that you see in the last pic beneath) .

 Bend

V. close to the Mt Bachelor ski area

Canoeing on the River Deschute - not us !

Note the red canoe about to negotiate some pretty terrifying rapids....

....going.....

....virtually gone.  Looked hopeless to me, but he made it.

Terra firma very much safer

Oli making for Smiths Rock

Some remarkable rock formations incl this - the Monkey's Face

Oli the pirate

Preparing for trick or treat outing round the neighbourhood

Nothing like a good hug. Miles and miles of wonderful mountain biking in our 'downtime'

D (with me on this occasion) off to work via mountain bike trail

Looking across the Willamette valley to The Sisters from the woods above D & K's house. We'll pass right through the middle of these peaks on our east west transam phase 3  next year.