Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!




The flower beds were beautiful!


This was a yard at Cannon Beach






The hanging baskets were beautiful and sooo big!

There were wildflowers everywhere.
The daisys were wild too.
These wild flowers were all along the road.



These giant arrangements were at an outlet mall.

Portland - The Coast

One of the many Lighthouses.
View at Depoe Bay
Somewhere along the coast.
At Depoe Bay
Tide pools near the lighthouse area.
We took this at Depoe Bay.
We had to buy bargain $20 columbia jackets
as the temperature was in the 50's.
We must have hit all the outlet malls in the area!

Some of our beach stops!

We tasted wine and ate clam chowder ,sourdough bread
and blue cheese at the Blue Heron.
The Dungeoness Crabs were huge and tasted fantastic!We spent two nights at Pelican shores.

This was the old court house in Astoria.
We stopped at the Tillamook Cheese Factory.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

2009 Awards Committee - St. Louis


St. Louis Convention

Taken from under the arch.
There were beautiful flowers everywhere.
At the Landing...notice the arch in the background.

Janet waving outside Union Station.
A pretty building

Flowers along the boulevard outside the hotel.
City Hall and Gateway Arch
View from my room

Budweiser Brewery!

The old main office.



A bunny eating petunias on the grounds.

The trolleys took us back to our vehicles after the tour.


One of the Clydesdales.





The blue stipe is bud light going really fast!

Fun with friends in St. Louis!

We had a wonderful lunch at a great Italian Restaurant!

Janet matched the elevator!

Fredbird kisses Joann.
We found Imo's and had some great pizza and a few beers too!
Our awesome waiter
Taken in Union Station.
We had fun at Caleco's
Janet and Cindy holding up the arch.


The "Who's on First?" guys
Larry and "Rooster"

Everyone looks amazed at the Arch!

Pictures from Gateway Arch!

A riverboat going down the Mississippi....notice the shadow of the arch.

A view down Memorial Boulevard
The Stadium is on the left side of the picture


City Hall