Mountain Rambles

We've been taking advantage of some of this BEAUTIFUL Oregon summer weather that (finally) came to visit us and have been exploring a mountain that is located close to our house. I love being outside and being neither too hot nor too cold. I love being surrounded by trees. I love ferns. I love hearing the birds chirp and watch them startle out of bushes. I love wildflowers and fresh deer tracks, mountain ranges in the distance and Queen Anne's Lace up close.

I also love taking pictures of it all and so I'll let some of my photos (and a few other people) do the rest of the talking for today. (Other than, of course, giving you the obligatory schpeel about how all of these photos are copyrighted by myself - Blue Castle Photography - even though I didn't bother to take the time to put the copyright notices on them. Blah, blah, blah.)


"Dear old world," she murmured, "you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you."
~ Anne of Green Gables




I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver



Nature will not be admired by proxy. ~Winston Churchill



And there was always the bend in the road! ~ Anne of Green Gables



I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir



"I'm going to let my imagination run riot for the summer." ~ Anne of Green Gables



Have a lovely weekend, y'all! See you next week.