Woke up late this beautiful Sunday morning (8:00am). Western Oregon is experiencing July: green and fragrant with cold snow melt rivers and candy-cloud filled blue sky.
I find myself already missing the lush glory of Oregon's "west side" as I prep and pack up to head out for what we NWsters call the "east side." The east side refers to the 2/3 of the state on the east side of the Cascade Mountains. Over the last four years I have grown more attached and appreciative of the magnificence that Oregon's east side holds. It is considered a high desert because the elevation of its low valleys is usually somewhere around 3-4,000 ft and it gets much less annual precipitation than the west side because it sets in the rain shadow of the Cascades. This all makes for amazing landscapes -- Incredible open sky; geologically old (relatively) terrain (I can't get enough of this of course); badgers; sage; pine forests; pumice dunes; antelope; jagged naked mountains; high winds; twisting rivers; ect.
I step into the east side with curiosity and awe............Still, this girl's soul is of the green -- mossy rocks and ferns under mammoth trees.
Steve and I had breakfast with our fabulous friend (incredible artist) Todd Simmler.
Check out his stuff!
He is in Eugene showing his work at the annual Art in the Vineyard Festival down by the Willamette River.
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