Zig Zag

We left off last post with the grand children coming to visit, complete with support team. Louis settled in after about twenty laps around the territory showing us the things that he could now reach that he couldn't on the last visit.

He was pretty happy with himself, but he usually is.

Nina still determined to thwart the photographer, did relent to one photo while teaching dad how to make pancakes.

After a few days of perfect Redmond weather we went to a cabin in Zig Zag, a small community just outside of Rhododendron. It is around 1500 ft elevation on the west slope of Mt. Hood and the Salmon River runs through it.

 As you can see, it gets a bit of rain.

We didn't do any fishing but went for a short (2 miles and flat) walk around Trillium Lake at the headwaters of the Salmon River.

The herd of cats finally about ready to get underway.

 Off we go. Louis slept through about half of the walk.

  

There were ginormous rotting trunks

 And a perfect fixer upper, ready for it's next tenant

This one ripped a fair sized boulder from the ground when it decided to lay down for a while. That trunk is about four feet in diameter.

We finally coaxed Nina to allow a photo of her riding the sea serpent tree.

Here is the inflow end of the lake.

 We saw lots of salamanders in the shallows.

And a partial glimpse of Mt. Hood from the small earthen dam.

Back home now; discovered a new project demanding attention, more on that next post.

Weather here is absolutely perfect. Here's hoping the weather in your part of the country isn't making the nightly news.