Summer Offering - Ripe Peaches

Sweet Sue Peaches

Donut Peaches

Oregon Country Fair 2006

Oregon Country Fair is an annual 3-day festival where there are plenty of entertainment, hand-made crafts, good food and wealth of information sharing. It is held in a wooded setting in the town of Veneta, Oregon. For three days out of a year this area becomes the fourth largest city in Oregon.

Prayer flags lined the way to the entrance of the Fair.

Participants dressed up in colorful costumes as mythical beings.

One of the many impromtu parades

Belly dancing in the Gypsy Caravan

Portlandia - The Unspoken Hero

Portlandia, the second largest sculpture in the United States after the Statue of Liberty, by Raymond Kaskey and the accompanying poem by Ronald Talney

She kneels down,
and from the quietness
of copper
reaches out.

We take that stillness
into ourselves,
and somewhere
deep in the earth
our breath

becomes her city.
If she could speak
this is what
she would say :

Follow that breath.
Home is the journey we make.
This is how the world
knows where we are

~~ Ronald Talney, 1985~~