Sunday, July 8, 2007

Georgetown Art & Garden Walk

Went to the Georgetown Art & Garden Walk today.

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(Not to be negative, but I'm so disgusted with all these overexposed photos that I'm printing out the manual for my camera right this second. Finally.)

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This little ginkgo is over 30 years old.

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The Oregon Garden

Instead of blowing a bunch of money at all the clearance sales at Portland clothing stores this weekend, we decide to head south into the Willamette Valley. Bye, Portland!

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This is the town of Aurora, in Marion County (where marionberries are from).

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We're taking the long way to get to Silverton, home of the new Oregon Garden. We stop
and have lunch in Woodburn, an old logging town that's having a sort of Latino renaissance. The old downtown is now very Mexican.

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After lunch, I ask for "una paleta de coco" and snap this photo of the Virgin of Guadaloupe chatting up the Holy Infant of Prague.

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I finish my popsicle outside, where even the old town square looks like a Mexican zocalo. Nice.

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I lost count of the number of nurseries (and 7/7/07 weddings) we passed.

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This is Mt. Angel, an old German town.

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Here's where they have the tulip festival and Oktoberfest.

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We finally hit Silverton.

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The Oregon Garden.

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I didn't take that many photos because it's just too hot.

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Even the frogs look overheated.

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Cypress and basalt columns. I would like these in my backyard.

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This is what every park in Oregon looks like.

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The Oregon Garden is disappointing to me. I think it's too new -- just five years old. I'd like to see what it looks like 10 years from now.

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Things need more time to fill in.

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There's nothing here that I didn't see on the Beacon Hill Garden Tour.

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And that didn't cost $10.

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Unfortunately, we're too late to go inside the Gordon House down the street. This is the only Frank Lloyd Wright building in the Northwest, I think.

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It looks cool inside.

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They have a nice view. I love the Willamette Valley.

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So verdant!

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And bucolic.

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I'm not exactly sure what "bucolic" means, but I think this qualifies.

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It's kind of like Middle-earth out here.

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Good-bye, Shire!

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