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alice44 wrote:I do love Oregon -- the Willamette Valley (where I live), the desert in the east and the wonderful Ocean.

I liked both states. They seemed to contain every type of geography / geology in America, but in a localized region. If you wanted mountains, you had those. If you wanted desert, you had that. If you wanted prairies, they were there; volcanoes, yep; rain forest, yep. Etc. I really liked that area.

Kitty KCMO wrote: I liked both states. They seemed to contain every type of geography / geology in America, but in a localized region. If you wanted mountains, you had those. If you wanted desert, you had that. If you wanted prairies, they were there; volcanoes, yep; rain forest, yep. Etc. I really liked that area.

We moved here when I was a kid -- after a tornado took out parts of Waukegan, Il. just a couple blocks from where we lived. I took care of my grandfather for the better part of a year in Fort Wayne Indiana and spent the summer with my mother in Hartford Ct, but other than that and my year in France I have not lived east of the Cascade Mountains. I am spoiled -- but there are no jobs here

More flowers because I love taking pictures of flowers.

Cosmos




A Rose

Mom and I took a walk at the Jackson Frazier Wetland -- a small park in town.

Rose Hips from the wetlands

Beautiful Leaves

I do not know what these are/were


Maples

More leaves

These are the same trees I posted images that date to about a week ago.

Wow, how beautiful! And SOOOOOO red!

Those pictures are gorgeous!
Love the cougar sign - what very good information.

You make gorgeous photos, Alice! I envy your location for beautiful trees & flowers.

Beautiful photographs Alice.. Love the leaves,the trees,spiders even and of course the landscape and flowers. Lovely.
Glad your Mum is up and walkng again too.

I should know what these berries are but I don't at the moment. They were planted for our Robins (thrushes that seem a lot like Fieldfares). The Robins do not seem to like them -- but they are pretty happy to eat them if were get ice or snow round about January.



These are in my backyard with the mostly bare birches just visible above them.

The Maple Trees a few days later -- I am pretty sure I took them on my walk this afternoon.





Looking straight down

alice44 wrote:I should know what these berries are but I don't at the moment. They were planted for our Robins (thrushes that seem a lot like Fieldfares). The Robins do not seem to like them -- but they are pretty happy to eat them if were get ice or snow round about January.



These are in my backyard with the mostly bare birches just visible above them.

Alice, I have one that looks just ike that, only smaller. It is Pyracantha. Sharp thorns. A gardener identified it a few days ago so I feel confident to give it the name!

Yes that name sounds right and about half the branches have long sharp thorns.

This is huge it is taking over. I cut out a couple of large dead branches which I am having trouble dealing with because of the thorns.

alice44 wrote:Yes that name sounds right and about half the branches have long sharp thorns.

This is huge it is taking over. I cut out a couple of large dead branches which I am having trouble dealing with because of the thorns.

.. and they say that if the bush has a lot of berries,its going to be a hard winter. Its making provision for the birds.

Pictures from the last couple of weeks.

Sweet Gum trees


One leaf on a Sweet Gum tree

More Red Maple Leaves
I think I took these Friday afternoon (unless it was Saturday) just as the sun peeked out from a few clouds.





I think these are the same kind of trees as I posted earlier, but those other trees are now almost empty.

I don't know what kind of trees these are



closer look at the leaves