Fireworks at Oregon Garden
posted in: Landscape, Night Life
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Since I was actually home for the long holiday weekend, and we had a friend staying with us, we decided to check out the fireworks show up at the Oregon Garden in Silverton, OR. We are members and have enjoyed some time wandering around the gardens previously (photos from that are coming eventually too!), so it seemed like a fun way to spend the evening of July 3rd, and in fact, it really was. We got there early and treated ourselves to the buffet dinner, which was fabulous, and then grabbed up a few seats in the garden next to the resort, where we could watch the sunset, and then the fireworks. Not too shabby!
And, if you’re interested in some video, my iPhone was handy for that as well.
Gathering at Sunset
Jedidiah Smith Redwoods Hike
After spending the evening in Crescent City, CA we set out the next morning to do a little hiking in the nearby Jedidiah Smith State Park. It was a chance to explore more of the Redwoods before heading back up into Oregon and continuing up the coast.
It was early morning and the relatively easy trail we decided on was empty, so it made for a very peaceful stroll among the giants.
We even came across on of the things my wife was most keen to spot, a banana slug.
More photos from our hike, as well as the rest of our long Memorial Day road trip, will be forthcoming on the blog in the next few weeks!
About to Take Flight
Lighthouse at Dusk
Crescent City Rocky Beach
Pelicans!
Crescent City, California – among many other things, there is an impressive collection of pelicans that gather in the bay!
More photos from the area, including more pelicans, to come!
Shore Reflections
Trees of Mystery
Over the long Memorial Day weekend, the wife and I decided to take a road trip down into Northern California. This would allow us too not only take in the coast line of Oregon all the way down to the state line, but also venture into California for a little exploring of the coast, and the Redwoods!
Our first destination was a place called Trees of Mystery.
Granted, if you follow that link, some of the stuff that they do here could be considered a little cheesy, and touristy. It’s all good fun, and beyond that, there are some great example of Redwoods here, and some great educational tools to learn more about how these trees grow, how they continue on and even how when they fall, their roots continue to generate new life. Plus, if you don’t know much about how Redwoods were used by Native Americans, you can learn, and the legend of Paul Bunyon through the carvings that were done as part of the park, like the one above.
I enjoyed it, and going here on day one actually made me appreciate our trip to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods park the next day more, because I had some education on what I was seeing as we did some hiking. That’s a win in my book!
Some of the cool stuff at Trees of Mystery:
Family Tree
A redwood that has started to grow full size trees on it’s own branches.
Cathedral Tree
Brotherhood Tree
Candelabra Tree
Literally, a fallen Redwood that starting growing new trees out of the nutrients in it’s own root system.
Life Reforming
New forest life grows inside the husk of a redwood that burned after a lightning strike.
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