Now I know the theme is trees but the rules clearly state there is only one rule and that is your photograph must be square in shape!
Becky B
In this month’s square’s challenge I will start at home, which is Prescott, AZ and spiral farther and farther from home to share different tree from my travels. All of these posts will work for both Becky B’s #TreeSquares and Cee’s Flower of the Day, #FOTD
Oregon Beauties
When my family moved from flat, muggy Indiana to Portland, Oregon at the foot of both Mt. Hoot and Mt. St. Helens when I was 15, I thought I had gone to heaven. I became the Oregon Chamber of Commerce to anyone who would listen to me. As you can see, the primary tree in Oregon is the evergreens sought after by the logging industry.
I lived in Oregon until 1982 when my first husband and I moved to Colorado Springs. It took several years before I quit being obnoxious about the perfection of Oregon.
Three years later I had finally recovered from leaving Oregon, when my first husband and I left Colorado and settled in Central California. From the age of 13, my brother never left Oregon and rarely traveled, so after Mom died in 2006, Randy and I decided it was time to take some trips together.
We started out close to his home. We drove from Portland up the Columbia Gorge one day and took a day trip to Tillamook and Lincoln City on another day. In 2018 we spent three days in Newport, Oregon to get out of the heat that had attacked Portland.
Columbia River 
On the way to Tillamook, OR 
Newport, Oregon 
Thanks for joining me for a tree-lined walk down this Oregonian memory lane.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
25 responses to “#TreeSquares 16: Oregon Beauties”
it is such a beautiful state, hopefully one of these days I will have the opportunity to explore more of it.
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I hope so, too. Becky B. It’s vast and every bit is gorgeous. 🙂
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Great captures. I have to get there someday💖
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It’s not that far from you. Just a few hours north and you’ll be there. You’ve got a good excuse today. Drive up for your anniversary! 🙂 Love your post, Cindy. I hope you are having a great time together. Vince and I totally forgot our anniversary this year. We were driving to church on Sunday and both realized at the same time that June 24th had come and gone without a blink. 🙂 OOPs
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Oh that’s a great reason is right. very close. Oh thats too funny… lol. happy anniversary belated my friend.💖💖💖
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I just discovered one of your comments in spam. Do I have your email? If not, you can send it through my comment page.
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Oh good…glad you dug it out.. you do… yes.. i’ll go email you quickly💖💖
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Great, then we can chat.
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Perfect❣️
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You just had to compete with me didn’t you. LOL You know I adore all your photos. 😀 😀
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And you know I adore yours more!!!
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Gorgeous photos, Marsha. I particularly love the last one and the twisted trunk is fabulous.
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I love twisted trunks. Thanks for the kind comment, Cathy! 🙂
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Well I loved Oregon when we visited, so I can understand why you sing its praises so loudly 😀
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It’s a wonderful place, Sarah. I moved there from flat, hot & muggy, cold and dreary Indiana, so you can understand why it held me under its spell. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
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Beautiful images, Marsha 👏 a great wee tour around Oregon 😃
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Thanks, Jez. Cee can give you a more accurate tour since she still lives there. I only get there for an occasional visit now.
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Oregon is on my list of places I’d love to visit.
I also like how you go all in everywhere you live – you’ve been the Chamber of Commerce for both Arizona and Oregon! 🙂
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And don’t forget, California. I lived there for 35 years and I loved it. Colorado I enjoyed for only 3 years, but I don’t have any digital pictures of it.
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California is very appealing to me as well, but it’s so far from what I am familiar with. that it could be a hard transition…
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Oh, Jim, you could transition anywhere. It is different in many ways, but there are lots of similarities, too. You’d find them. 🙂
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thanks for the pep talk!
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Wonderful!
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