Thanksgiving

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I thought this was an good post for Thanksgiving, we have two groups of turkeys near our house that have at least thirty birds each, sometimes they walk up our driveway, these photos were taken in our driveway. Ranger has a fit when he sees them he runs through the house as fast as he can barking as loud as he can, and then when I let him out after the turkeys are gone, he runs as fast as he can up the hill in back of our house to see if he can find the turkeys.

Misty Morring

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. www.turnbull.fws.gov/

Veteran's day

My Dad served in the army in WW 2 in the Philippines, he was overseas almost three years. Thank you dad and all who served, and are now serving to preserve our freedom.

Murray

Mur loved to lay in front of the fan in the summer time.




Good by Mur we love you and miss you.

IN MEMORY OF MURRAY

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MURRAY OUR FAITHFUL FRIEND FOR OVER FOURTEEN YEARS.






This Saturday was a very sad day for for us as we had to have our little friend Murray put down. He came to live with us when he was six months old, he came from an abusive home and it took a long time to gain his trust, but with a lot of love and patience his trust was gained and he became a very important part of our family. Mur had the sweetest spirit of any dog I have ever had, and was quite a little character. He loved to steal things from the other dogs, and in his younger days we called him the flying Mur as he would get a running start and leap for the bed or sofa from four or five feet away without a thought of where he was going to land. Mur was almost 15 years old and lived a long happy life with us We loved our little Mur very much and he will be greatly missed, it just isn't the same here without him.

shaker

nine mile dam

This was Nine mile dam this spring which is on the Spokane river,



and this is what it looks like now quite a contrast.

Shadow

This spider was trying to hide from me which made an interesting shot.

Then and now

These two pictures were taken at the Deer Park golf course which is about ten miles from my house. The first was taken last winter in January, and the second was taken last Sunday quite a contrast.

Boat yard

I thought this was interesting.

Manito

I took this shot at Manito park on the south hill in Spokane.

july trip

Ranger with his pack on our recent trip to Leavenworth Washington.

reflections

The picture is not upside down.

Dry Fall

This area is called Dry Falls you can follow this link for more information on Dry Falls http://www.gonorthwest.com/washington/northeast/Dry_Falls.htm

more boats

I thought this was an interesting little boat, and the glass like water was beautiful , this was also taken at Port Townsend.

Boats

The marina at Port Townsend

Little Falls contrast

These shots were taken about two weeks ago.

This is the top of little falls dam you can see what is left of the boards that were on top of the dam in the last post.

This is a shot from the old bridge


This is a shot a little down stream from the reflection shot in one of my past posts. I thought this was quite a contrast from the calm of last fall.

more dam pics.

These shots are of the old bridge at the dam I think it use to be part of the old highway.









I thought this is an interesting way to add hight to the dam. you can see this across the top of the dam in one of my previous posts.

L.F. continued

This is the top of Little Falls dam.




This is the face of the dam taken near the same place the picture above was taken.



and this is a sizable crack in the dam.

more Little falls

It was last October when we went to Little falls and as you can see from the frost on the cable and the window it was a bit chilly out.

little falls dam

Last fall my father-in-law and I took a trip to little falls dam, I started to post these shots once before but never finished the series, so I am going to try again. If you copy and paste this link into your browser it will give you more information on Little Falls dam.

http://www.waterplanet.ws/avista/Avistahome/Avista%20&%20Spokane%20River.html


If you go to google earth and type in little falls dam Washington it will take you there

Spring is here

Ranger and I went out to Riverside State Park today and did some roaming. It got up to 78 degrees today wow. I thought this tree was interesting, I guess it couldn't decided what way to grow.


These flowers are a true mark of spring.