Back from Bend
Why do I always feel more tired after time off? Ok...yes, we did drive over 500 miles round trip on our jaunt to Central Oregon......but Greer got dropped off at this grandparents - and we had no real agenda during our stay. Go figure.
For as short as it was, we had a decent time on our mini-vacation. Alex sang well with the PDX Opera crew at the High Desert Museum - and we moved at a leisurely pace for the remainder of the time.
One of the highlights included our semi-annual visit to the Peterson Rock Gardens - the greatest crumbling curiosity this side of Redmond. It's still hanging in there after all these years, and just as amusing. I remember visiting this place with my grandparents and taking in the cheeseball brilliance of rock garden grottos and lava rock renderings of U.S. monuments....nevermind the arrogant roaming peacocks.
These days, it's looking a bit rough. Make that...a lot.
The museum/giftshop is a mix of dusty geodes and decaying merchandise - mixed in with more dust and dead flies. It's as if they stopped cleaning and selling things in 1983....but somehow the door is open. Outside, the rock attractions are in a state of decline. While spring cleanup was underway, you got the sense that very little changes in the larger scope. Stagnant water, overgrown walkways and wind-blown trash add a demension akin to an abandoned (and perhaps haunted) house.
In short, it's a keeper.
For as short as it was, we had a decent time on our mini-vacation. Alex sang well with the PDX Opera crew at the High Desert Museum - and we moved at a leisurely pace for the remainder of the time.
One of the highlights included our semi-annual visit to the Peterson Rock Gardens - the greatest crumbling curiosity this side of Redmond. It's still hanging in there after all these years, and just as amusing. I remember visiting this place with my grandparents and taking in the cheeseball brilliance of rock garden grottos and lava rock renderings of U.S. monuments....nevermind the arrogant roaming peacocks.These days, it's looking a bit rough. Make that...a lot.
The museum/giftshop is a mix of dusty geodes and decaying merchandise - mixed in with more dust and dead flies. It's as if they stopped cleaning and selling things in 1983....but somehow the door is open. Outside, the rock attractions are in a state of decline. While spring cleanup was underway, you got the sense that very little changes in the larger scope. Stagnant water, overgrown walkways and wind-blown trash add a demension akin to an abandoned (and perhaps haunted) house.
In short, it's a keeper.
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OH Greg, please tell me you guys bought some bottles of Pepsi. Yes, that would be the REAL glass-bottled pepsi that we visit the Rock Gardens for at least semi-annually!! -I hope you and yours are doing well, and finding joy in 2007. Love Kristi
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