Gathering for Neal

Neal is family. So yeah, we were close in that sense.

New shop and pumphouse

Isn’t it beautiful?

He built some forms for me to make steps, and then left me to do everything else.

One big change is that my chicken Hussies finally have a decent home.

In 2006 I was exposed – in a different way! – to oil painting.

I kept jotting things in the Notes app in my phone.

I hope my friend now feels more keenly his place on this particular spot of the Pacific Northwest.

I spent time reminiscing.

Pop quiz: what is Oregon’s state fossil? Metasequoia, of course.

Day two we headed east and then dropped south from the Columbia River Gorge to explore the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.