Oh Yes

Ella went to Miki's class' open house, and they both looked splendid

Meanwhile, these two:

Sweet Little Sunday Hike to Twin L

Mighty Deschutes: a river trip

Three wild days over Labor Day weekend with the Bradfords and Maggie Vining and Jon, Amy, Madison, Ma

Many proclamations, much "riding the bull," plenty of jumping off rocks:

Maggie's the only one who held her nose.

 Things in the rapids got too hairy to document, believe me!

Always nice to kick it with this bro:

All kinds of action

49! Clocks' hands speeding right up!

Perhaps a glimpse toward Halloween?

Or perhaps just some beardage:

According to Miki, Elsie taught her how to draw this dolphin:

First Day of School!

YES!

Pumpkin Alert

Ida did a great job of growing her pumpkins this summer.  She put out the word about the sale and they were gone by the end of the morning!

Oh another quick trip to the beach, for instance.

Why not?  We headed out there again!  But this time a Wave struck Ella and she somehow hurt her back...fortunately, her daughters were there to help heal her. 

We were dropping Ida off at Camp Westwind for a week.  We went on a quick hike, before the drop-off.  That island down there is where the camp is!

This also helped Ella's back:

In my writing life, been thinking of Brautigan:

And also my friends Pauls's book was in the window of the Cannon Beach bookstore.  Whoa.