Yesterday I took Ruby out to the Oregon Coast. Usually we just go out to Lincoln City. This time we went to Newport via Corvallis so we could go on the route her family would take when she was a Child Yet At Home.
We stopped in at Toledo to visit her Mom’s very active eighty-year-old cousin Wilma. When we got there, we interrupted her work. She was out on her riding mower, mowing a vast expanse of yard.
After that we went on to Newport. One of our stops there was Yaquina Bay State Park:
But before Toledo and before Newport, we were at Philomath. We were past the turning spot before we saw it, so we turned around and went back to it: Southern Pacific Caboose 1160.
Well, folks, this morning I used Paint Shop Pro and two pictures I took on our jaunt to make a simple little Mother’s Day card for Ruby. Here are the two images I used:
(If you click the images, you should see the more complete pictures from which they came.)
That was a really nice 250-mile, 10-hour trip Ruby and I took together. We definitely enjoyed it very much. We didn’t do anything super special for our meals. In Philomath we bought snack wraps at McDonalds. In Newport we bought a foot-long sub at Subway. And in Salem we bought (at McDonalds) fish sandwiches, fries, two pies, a McFlurry, and a milkshake.
Oh, and in Depoe Bay we bought half a pound of salt water taffy.