St Helens by DH

DH was taking lots of photos while I was driving when we were on vacation. Glad he did because he captured some interesting views. Driving over the long bridge heading towards, St Helens.

Lots of photos of the family at Mt St Helens. The Volcano is quite impressive in person and it was the perfect day. Was very windy but the cool wind sweeping of the mountain made it wonderful.

Yes, the sky was that color as DH took this photo while I was driving. Can see one little cloud up there, looking like a alien space craft.

Another photo I did not know DH took. This is the look out near St Helens, where the Elk tend to hang out.

DS and I .

DS and I again, this time a little farther away from St Helens. DH and I really liked this spot, so we had our picnic lunch here.

Another drive by shooting. ;O) Can see the thick ash and the very large logs buried in it.

The Gorge ~ DH's Photos

DH and I at the Multnomah Falls. Bought him some very good Fudge here.

DS took the photo.

A pretty photo of one of the Falls.

Glad DH took this shot, is really cool. Looks like it should be in some 1930/40's movie! This is the Bonneville Dam and you get to drive over part of it to get to the fish ladders.

On the beautiful side road that follows all the Waterfalls.

The Bridge of the Gods. Played with DH's photo a bit to make ...well... more impressive. Is a rather small bridge and was expect something as impressive as say the, St Johns bridge. But it was nice to see all the same.

Driving across The Bridge of the Gods, heading into WA.

Husband's photos he took on Vacation

Yes, that is a box of Moonstuck chocolates. DH bought them for me when we were on vacation. They are incredibly good, have to say some of the best chocolate out there.

The Lewis and Clark Bridge, we have to go over this to head north or go into WA to shop. Can see one of the many of the places that sell Logs from the US to overseas just in front of the bridge.

Can you see me now? LOL Only thing missing is my bright Orange helmet cover. Good to stay safe on the road and avoid poachers shooting at you.

The Rhodies.

Some photos of me and the horses

Not the best photo but I found it interesting. Edda did a spinning turn right after I took this photo.

Short ride on Stjarna yesterday, getting her to round nicely. Find her reverse dapples interesting. Yes, I am riding her bitless. She had some pretty big issues with a bit, so I decided to re train her bitless and she goes much softer this way.

This photos shows her dapples a little better.

Riding does make my back and body feel better. Thank you DS for taking the photos.

Reason for No photos

I am sorry everyone for the lack of Photos. I finally found out why. Let's just say it has something to do with Google+ and the lack of foresite with Google itself.

Hence the 3 years of photos gone on this blog. And 4 years of photos gone on my Art blog. :(

It will take me a couple of months to get all the photos back up on all my Blogs.

Am sorry ..........

Eww... the ground peed on me!

Is the ground supposed to be doing this? Nari would sit just out of reach of the creeping water and.....

As it touched her body, I swear I could hear her say.............I say, who... has caused this unwarranted attack upon my person?? LOL

Edda was 2 years old May 30

Decided I had better get some new photos of Edda since she is for sale....and if you know anyone interested in an Icelandic, let them know.

Camera has been slowly dying, it really doesn't want to take action shots and does some weird things when I force it. But it turned out pretty neat anyway.

She is as tall as her mother who is 13.3 hands tall and she is still growing.

Even though her coat is super dirty, she shines through all of it.

Last two photos are her running with her Dam. Can see how much muscle she has running in the rolling pastures we have.

We have Peony's!

First Peony's we have had in 5 years and they are well worth the wait! And I put one of them in the hand blown glass vase I bought at Jamestown, VA.

Flowers always put a smile on my face.

What do you do when the Garden is over grown?

Get Sheep!

With everything I have to do, is all but impossible for me to do a Veggie garden this year. So I decided to toss two sheep in and let them have at it. At least it will get eaten down and not look so scruffy.

Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls

DH and DS at the first waterfall we visited. And yes, DS, if you make faces when I want to take photos, I am going to post them any way.

I don't know why we waited so long to visit the Gorge, it is a truly stunning place.

Multnomah Falls, really impressive but nearly impossible to get a good photo of it with my dying camera but I tried any way. If I remember correctly, it is 620ft.

This one is the Wahkeena Falls.

And the bottom of Multnomha Falls. We really enjoyed the drive, visited the Falls, enjoyed the beautiful landscape and saw the Bridge of the Gods, which was a lot smaller than we were expecting but still fun to see.

Edda in the evening ~

Decided to take some photos of Edda in the last rays of the sun yesterday. Love how the sun looks in her mane.

Is hard getting good photos of Edda, either she wants to be really close or is making a funny face. LOL

But I tried anyway. She is growing up to be such a beauty. She turned two years old on May 30th. Is hard to believe she is two already, time sure flies.

A Beautiful Silver bay 2 year old Icelandic filly.

Bonneville Dam

We decided to go visit the Columbia River Gorge and visit the Bonneville Dam. And was able to drive on top of the Dam/Locks in one area, rather wild.

The shear amount of water coming out of the gates was impressive.

Impressive white water at the Dam. Enjoyed watching it as we ate lunch at a picnic bench.

Am saying the word impressive a lot, well,, because it was. ;O)

The fish hatchery at the Bonneville Dam. Pretty neat place.

Cute little cottage. Looks like both the Dam and the hatchery was built in the 1930's and had a wonderful feel to it.

Really cool weather vane.

The 450lb sturgeon, really big fish.

New Car

With DH and I driving on the HWY a lot the last couple of weeks in the Element, I firmly come to the conclusion that car just won't work for me. I didn't feel safe, and it was tiring to drive. Was squirrely at HWY speeds and add any wind or weather into the equation and lets just say it was really hard too keep it on the road.

So we went car shopping one day. We tried a number of vehicles from cars to trucks.

I loved the Tundra truck but sadly they could not find any used 08's any where in the Northwest. And that same problem followed us at every lot we looked at.

There is a serious shortage of good used cars, or used cars period around here.

We were shown this Honda Pilot, high miles on it but pretty clean and neat inside and out. And goodness, does it ever drive 100% better than the Element.

Not getting knocked around in the wind or anything else is nothing short of wonderful.

So here is our new to us, used 2008 Honda Pilot.

Plus to this one, is the gas mileage is the same as the Element and it has a much higher cargo weight capacity than the E, something we really need. Plus it will tow 4,500lbs. Which will great in the future.