Yesterday's Bliss
After returning from our month away from Oregon, it's taken awhile to settle back into "being home." But yesterday offered one of the special days of autumn with perfect temperature, perfect light, and the perfect feel of being home. Mike and I took an afternoon walk through the woods to a McKenzie River water diversion area developed in the 1950's to provide spawning grounds for salmon. Our hope was to see salmon digging out a redd to place their eggs. We did see a few redd in the stream, but only one with a fish in it and she was busy working to prepare her spot to lay eggs. However, it was a bull trout and not a salmon.
(The word 'redd' originates from a Scottish word that means, “to clean an area or make it tidy”. Now I know what my grandmother meant when she would redd up the kitchen)
Here is what we did see . . .
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| Fall Colors |
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| and more Fall Colors |
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| A Water Ouzel in its Happy Spot |
 Amanita muscaria It has hallucenogenic properties, but we didn't try it.🤣 | |||
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