Original Date: 25 July, 2005

This is an old post moved over from Livejournal.

I've got new photos posted on Flickr. They are from our most recent trip; our 3rd annual honeymoon that we squeezed in right before my surgery on Friday. We went to Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge in Oregon. It was very hot, being in the high-desert. There were few trees and lots of sagebrush. We saw pronghorn, coyotes, rabbits, and the biggest hare I've ever seen. It was bigger than a beagle!

Petroglyph

We also saw petroglyphs on the rocks around Petroglyph Lake. Hart mountain is huge and impressive from the valley floor. It seems to go straight up! My camera came with software to stitch together several photos into a single panoramic view. I tested it on photos of Hart Mountain and I think it came out well.

Hart Mountain

 We spent a day and a half and one night there and saw everything we needed to see, for this trip, but Scott wants to go back and get more pictures including ones of badgers and horned lizards this time. Plus we found out where we could gather sunstones (Oregon's state rock or gem or something) in the nearby town of Plush.

Holbrook Reservoir

Then we went back to Fremont National Forest and spent a night camped there at Holbrook Reservoir. It was beautiful to be back in the mountains, surrounded by pine trees. We had the whole lake to ourselves. We saw kingfishers, osprey, bats, and pelicans. It was so peaceful and quiet! That is another place we'll have to go back to.

Finally back to Medford and home. On the way home we stopped just east of Ashland to look for geodes on the roadside. We believe we may have found a couple, but they are not the showy type you see in rock shops. We'll take them to the geology department at HSU and see what they say.

Now it is just a waiting game until surgery. I've kept myself busy cleaning house and preparing. We've even made several kinds of freezer jam. Peach, apricot, Oregon strawberry, plum, and blueberry. Yum, at least I'll eat well during recovery.