Oregon Coast

This is the Astoria Column depicting the Lewis and Clark trail in pictures. We also drove the 4 mile bridge across the Columbia River into Washington. 

We are at the end of the tourist part of Seaside and standing at the Beach. It reminds me of Pismo Beach in CA. We had fish and chips and checked out the house we are renting with the kids in August.

The drive home on Highway 26 was beautiful.

Volcano Quilt Retreat

This past week was my annual quilt retreat at Volcano. As you can see, we had an evening with clear enough skies to see the glow at Halemaumau Crater at the top of Kilauea volcano. The glow is from a large hole in the floor of the crater that is open to a lava lake. You can see the wall of the crater behind the glow in the pictures. The plume is what blows over to Kona every day to create our "vog."

One of the things we did at our retreat was to sandwich and baste Mom's quilt top. There is a billiard table in the conference room we use that has a wooden top. It makes a great place to lay out a large quilt. But, as you can see, someone (moi in this case) has to get up on the table to do the stitching in the center of the quilt.